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ALA 2013: The Library of 2020 Will Be…
Wondering about the future of libraries? You don’t need a crystal ball—just pick up Joe Janes’s new book.
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ALA 2013: The Golden Age of Piracy: PW Talks with Robert Spoo
As a new copyright reform movement gains momentum, and international treaties propose to “normalize” copyright laws globally, it is amazing to see how history does repeat itself.
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Knitting a Parachute After Jumping Out of a Plane: PW Talks with Robin Blake
In Robin Blake’s second 18th-century historical, Dark Waters, coroner Titus Cragg and Dr. Luke Fidelis investigate politically motivated murders.
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Exploring from Within: PW Talks with Edwidge Danticat
Edwidge Danticat’s Claire of the Sea Light follows an intrepid little girl on what will prove to be one of the most important and heartbreaking nights of her life.
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The Art of Storytelling: PW Talks with Michael Paterniti
In his new book, The Telling Room: A Tale of Love, Betrayal, and Revenge and the World’s Greatest Piece of Cheese, Michael Paterniti’s (Driving Mr. Albert) zestful storytelling carries us along on a delightful journey through a Spanish village rich with the traditions of food and family.
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Reduce This!: PW Talks With Curtis White
White’s The Science Delusion confronts popular neuroscience and its reductionist assertion that there is nothing more to the human mind than a computer-based functionality.
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Killer Kiwi: PW Talks With Paul Cleave
New Zealander Cleave’s Cemetery Lake pits an ex-cop against a cunning killer.
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A Machiavellian Mafia Chess Master: PW Talks with Peter Lance
Former ABC News correspondent Peter Lance shares his investigative findings regarding mobster Greg Scarpa Sr. in Deal with the Devil: The FBI’s Secret Thirty-Year Relationship with a Mafia Killer.
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Death Drive: PW Talks with Judith Flanders
In The Invention of Murder: How the Victorians Revelled in Death and Detection and Created Modern Crime, historian Judith Flanders examines how 19th-century Brits dealt with—and capitalized upon—rising crime levels.
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An Unlikable Lady Detective: PW Talks with Carol O’Connell
In Carol O’Connell’s It Happens in the Dark, Kathy Mallory’s 11th outing, the New York Special Crimes Unit detective investigates the murder of a Manhattan playwright.
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Problem Solver: PW Talks with Caleb Crain
Caleb Crain’s rich debut novel, Necessary Errors, focuses on Jacob Putnam, a young American man living in Prague in the early 1990s.
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Connecticut Parking Lot Blues: PW Talks With Dan Kennedy
Kennedy, host of The Moth storytelling series and podcast, moves from memoir to novel with American Spirit, which centers on unemployed, recently-divorced 40-something Matthew Harris’s battle against mid-life despair.
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Mob to Mayor: PW Talks With Oscar Goodman
In Goodman’s entertaining memoir, Being Oscar, he shares stories from his 35-year career as a criminal attorney defending mob personalities as well as the following dozen years serving as mayor of Las Vegas.
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Q & A with Tom McNeal
We speak with the author about his new novel, Far Far Away, a modern fairy tale.
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Under False Pretenses: PW Talks with Roxana Robinson
The prolific Roxana Robinson's latest novel, Sparta, is a moving account of one soldier’s struggle to adjust after returning home from Iraq.
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An Avenging Angel of Economic Crime: PW Talks with Ian Hamilton
In Ian Hamilton’s third novel featuring Ava Lee, The Wild Beasts of Wuhan, the forensic accountant looks into a case of art fraud.
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Pride & Premonition: PW Talks with Curtis Sittenfeld
Curtis Sittenfeld explores familial loyalty and dysfunction in Sisterland, a tale of Kate and Violet, identical twins with ESP.
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From Biologist to Writer: PW Talks with Aaron Hirsh
Biologist Aaron Hirsh intersects science and storytelling in Telling Our Way to the Sea: A Voyage of Discovery in the Sea of Cortez.
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Occult Illuminator: PW Talks With Paul Kleber Monod
In Solomon’s Secret Arts: The Occult in the Age of Enlightenment, Middlebury College history professor Monod challenges contemporary assumptions that the Enlightenment successfully quashed belief in disciplines—like astrology, witchcraft, and alchemy—that were not founded in reason.
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Still Thirsty: PW Talks With Tom Acitelli
Acitelli knows beer. A regular contributor to All About Beer magazine, his first book, The Audacity of Hops, is the definitive study of the remarkable evolution of America’s craft beer industry.