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Emotional Recalibrations: PW Talks with Jenny Offill
Dept. of Speculation is marked by Offill’s clever and subtle language, as well as references to everything from Lynyrd Sknyrd lyrics to Rilke and Einstein, in showing the experience of marriage and motherhood for a young woman.
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Dreaming His Way into Abraham Lincoln: PW Talks with Jerome Charyn
In I Am Abraham, Jerome Charyn audaciously creates President Lincoln’s autobiography.
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The Kumquat Killer: PW Talks with Ruth Kassinger
After a curious home-gardening failure, Kassinger embarked on a botanical education, which she shares in A Garden of Marvels: How We Discovered That Flowers Have Sex, Leaves Eat Air, and Other Secrets of the Way Plants Work.
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The Seven-Year Itch: PW Talks with Kem Nunn
For the past seven years novelist Kem Nunn has been busying it up in Hollywood writing for TV shows such as Deadwood and John from Cincinnati.
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Imperfect Relationships: PW Talks with Yiyun Li
In Kinder Than Solitude, the atmosphere of social upheaval in 1980s China is reflected in the relationship between three teenage friends whose lives are changed by a murder.
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Curtain Call: PW Talks with Armistead Maupin
With The Days of Anna Madrigal, Armistead Maupin brings his 12-character-based Tales of the City series, set in San Francisco, to a close after 40 years.
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Mixing Danger and Technology: PW Talks with Patrick Lee
Patrick Lee makes his hardcover debut with Runner, a thriller that teams a compassionate former Delta Ranger, Sam Dryden, and a 12-year-old girl trained by the government to read minds.
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Urban Legend: PW Talks with Kevin Cook
In Kitty Genovese: The Murder, the Bystanders, the Crime That Changed America, journalist Kevin Cook disproves the myth of the 38 unresponsive bystanders.
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Modern Love Guide: PW Talks with Sara Eckel
In her upcoming book, It’s Not You: 27 (Wrong) Reasons You’re Single (Perigee, Jan.), Sara Eckel debunks the conventional wisdom as to why women of a certain age are still single.
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Myth and Resilience: PW Talks with David Pilling
In Bending Adversity: Japan and the Art of Survival, Financial Times Asia editor David Pilling offers a panoramic portrait of contemporary Japan.
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Alphabet Coup: PW Talks with Ewan Clayton
In The Golden Thread: The Story of Writing, calligraphy expert Clayton explores the history of writing in all its aspects, focusing on the evolution of the Roman alphabet and its impact on civilization.
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Why Cuts Get Band-Aids: PW Talks with Claire Cameron
Claire Cameron’s The Bear describes the adventures of a five-year-old girl and her two-year-old brother as they escape from a bear that has attacked their parents while the family is on a camping trip.
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Balistreri’s Way: PW Talks with Roberto Costantini
Italian author Roberto Costantini introduces mercurial Rome Commissario Michele Balistreri in his debut thriller, The Deliverance of Evil—the first of a trilogy.
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Cairo Crime Goes Western: PW Talks With Parker Bilal
The pseudonymous Bilal has written several acclaimed literary novels. His latest, The Ghost Runner (Bloomsbury, Feb.), continues the adventures of Sudanese ex-pat private detective Makana, who previously appeared in The Golden Scales and Dogstar Rising.
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On Translating Science: PW Talks with Elizabeth Kolbert
New Yorker staff writer Kolbert examines the growing global crisis of species loss in her new book, The Sixth Extinction: An Unnatural History.
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Lonely Red Planet: PW Talks with Andy Weir
Andy Weir’s debut novel, The Martian, follows an astronaut stranded on Mars and out of communication with Earth as he attempts to survive an almost impossible situation.
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The Only Seeds Being Sown Were Bullets: PW Talks with Nadifa Mohamed
A brutal confrontation on the eve of the Somali civil war in 1987 brings three women together, in Mohamed’s devastating second novel, The Orchard of Lost Souls.
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Q & A with Laurie Halse Anderson
To write her latest YA novel, The Impossible Knife of Memory, Laurie Halse Anderson tapped into some dark corners of her past.
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Q & A with Cokie Roberts
Author and broadcast journalist Cokie Roberts has written her first children's book, Founding Mothers: Remembering the Ladies.
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Poetry Nation: PW Talks with Richard Blanco
In December of 2012, Richard Blanco received news that he was chosen to compose and recite a poem for the 2013 Inauguration.
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