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Great Expectations: PW Talks with Debora L. Spar
In Wonder Women: Sex, Power, and the Quest for Perfection (Sept. 17), Barnard College president Debora L. Spar questions the idea of “having it all.”
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Taking Sides: PW Talks with Bill McKibben
In Oil and Honey: The Education of an Unlikely Activist (Sept. 17), award-winning journalist and educator Bill McKibben (Eaarth) recounts his experiences building a grassroots movement to fight climate change and fossil fuel dependency.
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Water World: PW Talks with Lincoln Paine
In The Sea and Civilization: A Maritime History of the World, maritime historian Paine eschews a traditional land-centric approach to studying human cultures by examining how water-based trade and travel affected the rise and fall of civilizations throughout history.
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Seventh Time’s a Charm: PW Talks with Anita Shreve
In her 17th novel, Stella Bain, Anita Shreve tells the story of a woman traumatized by her experiences in World War I.
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The Robert B. Parker Code: PW Talks with Helen Brann
Helen Brann, Robert B. Parker’s longtime agent, has completed the final Spenser novel, Silent Night.
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Q & A with William Wegman
William Wegman is and his silvery Weimaraners are back with Flo & Wendell, a goofy, winsome sister-and-brother, the first of a number of books he's signed on to do with Dial.
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Q & A with Todd Strasser
Todd Strasser drew from his own childhood to write Fallout, about a father who builds the only bomb shelter in the neighborhood as the Cold War heats up in 1962.
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Saying Goodbye: A Conversation with David Dow - Pets & Animals 2013
In the years following the blockbuster success of 2005’s Marley & Me by John Grogan, the number of memoirs that focus on loss and grief—particularly around beloved pets—has grown.
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The Come-Back Study: PW Talks With Jamie Moyer and Larry Platt
Last year, at age 49, Jamie Moyer became the oldest pitcher in Major League Baseball to win a game. Just Tell Me I Can't, co-written with Larry Platt, is an inspirational investigation into the craft of pitching.
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Death is the Thing With Feathers: PW Talks With Anna Jansson
In Anna Jansson’s Strange Bird, the first Maria Wern thriller to be translated into English, a strain of avian flu transmitted by a pigeon devastates the Swedish island of Gotland.
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Druidic Designs: PW Talks with Graham Robb
Robb’s The Discovery of Middle Earth: Mapping the Lost World of the Celts takes a look at how the indigenous, pre-Roman people of Europe plotted their whole world according to a complex web of “solstice lines.”
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Bombs Away: PW Talks with Sara Paretsky
Critical Mass, Sara Paretsky’s 17th crime novel featuring Chicago private eye V.I. Warshawski, explores a present-day missing persons case—and pre-WWII Austria.
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Friendship as Survival Tactic: PW Talks with Beverly Gologorsky
Beverly Gologorsky’s novel Stop Here examines the impact of the war in Iraq on blue collar families in Long Island, N.Y., focusing on women, as she did in the case of the Vietnam War in her debut novel, The Things We Do to Make It Home, which was first published in 1999.
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Video: Gene Luen Yang on 'Boxers' and 'Saints'
Acclaimed graphic novelist Gene Luen Yang is back with a stunning pair of graphic novels, Boxers and Saints. We caught up with Yang at BookExpo America 2013 to talk about what inspired him to create the books.
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Q & A with Holly Black
In her new novel, The Coldest Girl in Coldtown, Holly Black takes on a topic that might seem to have been done to death – vampires – but somehow she's produced another winner.
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Others of His Kind: PW Talks With James Sallis
Sallis’s latest, Others of My Kind, is a powerful, unsettling novella about a brilliant video editor who was abducted as a child and spent two years living in a box under her captor’s bed before escaping and building a life for herself. We caught up with Sallis on the eve of publication to discuss his latest work.
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Disassembly Line: PW Talks with Karen Dietrich
Dietrich's The Girl Factory is a haunting memoir about coping with mental illness, her mother's as well as her own, and growing up as a girl in a world seemingly filled with dangerous and volatile men.
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The Citizen-Soldier Gap: PW Talks with Andrew J. Bacevich
After serving in the U.S. Army for 23 years and retiring at the rank of colonel, Andrew J. Bacevich went on to publish several books (including 2010’s bestselling Washington Rules: America’s Path to Permanent War) and teach history and international relations at Boston University.
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Going Dutch: PW Talks with Russell Shorto
In Amsterdam: A History of the World’s Most Liberal City, historian and journalist Shorto examines the factors behind the city’s emergence as a center of social, political, and economic freedom.
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Shadow Selves: PW Talks with Hilton Als
In the essay collection White Girls, New Yorker critic and famed provocateur Hilton Als analyzes “the white shadow” in American literature, art, and culture.
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