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The Passion of Anna: PW Talks with Sissel-Jo Gazan
Sissel-Jo Gazan’s science-driven thriller, The Dinosaur Feather, has been hailed as one of the best crime novels of the last decade in her native Denmark.
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Women and Children First: PW Talks with Jayne Anne Phillips
Phillips’s new novel, Quiet Dell, provides a rich account of a sordid crime that took place in
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Q & A with Peter Brown
In Peter Brown's Mr. Tiger Goes Wild, the eponymous feline shuns drab Victorian convention, trading his top hat and coat for a naked romp through the jungle.
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Reamed Out: PW Talks with Nicholas A. Basbanes
In On Paper: The Everything of Its Two-Thousand-Year History, bibliophile Nicholas A. Basbanes brings to life the history, versatility, and cultural importance of this ubiquitous material.
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It Was a Very Good Year: PW Talks with Luke Barr
In Provence, 1970, Luke Barr tells the story of how his great-aunt M.F.K. Fisher, together with Julia Child and James Beard, reinvented American taste.
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Fiction as an Extension of Fact: PW Talks with Martin Fletcher
Martin Fletcher explores the experiences of European Jews right after the Holocaust in Jacob’s Oath.
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Goodbye to Old Friends: PW Talks with Dan Simmons
Dan Simmons tackles Mount Everest in his new novel, The Abominable, with a mix of genres, an absence of certainty, and reams of research.
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Son of Son of Sam: PW Talks With Geoffrey Girard
In Geoffrey Girard’s new book Cain’s Blood, serial killers are cloned in a military-funded scientific program. The author is simultaneously publishing a YA version of the story entitled Project Cain, told from the perspective of one of the clones.
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The Social Production Network: PW Talks With Antonio Negri
In his collection of essays entitled The Winter is Over, Negri, a dyed-in-the-wool Marxist and eminent political philosopher, imparts penetrating analyses and reflections on the changing economic and political landscape.
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Q & A with Gris Grimly
PW talked to illustrator Gris Grimly about his version Mary Shelley's Frankenstein and the perils of tackling a story after so many others have had a go at it.
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Q & A with Nancy Farmer
Eleven years after her National Book Award-winning The House of the Scoprion, Nancy Farmer has published a sequel, The Lord of Opium.
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Video: Samantha Shannon on 'The Bone Season' and Her Writer's Tic
Samantha Shannon's debut dystopian fantasy novel, The Bone Season, kicks off a seven-book series. We talk with her about about how she keeps it all straight and much more.
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Poison of Interest: PW Talks with Sandra Hempel
The early days of forensic science are depicted in Sandra Hempel’s The Inheritor’s Powder: A Tale of Arsenic, Murder and the New Forensic Science.
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Splitting Personality: PW Talks with J. Michael Lennon
In Norman Mailer: A Double Life, scholar J. Michael Lennon explores the inner life of the controversial author.
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A Novel in Reverse: PW Talks with Jeffery Deaver
Jeffery Deaver tries something different in The October List, a crime thriller.
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The Long Haul: PW Talks with Lindsay Hill
Sea of Hooks, the product of 20 years of work, is Lindsay Hill’s first novel after six poetry collections.
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Paternal Noir: PW Talks With Douglas Corleone
Former NYC criminal defense attorney Douglas Corleone’s noirish new thriller, Good as Gone, introduces protagonist Simon Fisk, a former US marshal whose new line of work helps fill the void of his missing daughter.
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Stories from Regions of Rift: PW Talks With Thomas Keneally
Keneally’s latest novel The Daughters of Mars explores WWI from the perspective of Australian nurses.
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Necessary Revisionism: PW Talks With Steven Moore
In The Novel: An Alternative History, 1600 – 1800, Moore concentrates on the macro and explores the evolution of an amorphous artform using a constellation of lesser known works.
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Q & A with Lois Duncan
Duncan's Debutante Hill is the first YA classic be to reissued by Ig Publishing's new imprint, Lizzie Skurnick Books.