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Old Boys in a Young Man’s Game: PW Talks with Charles McCarry
In retired CIA officer Charles McCarry’s stand-alone thriller The Shanghai Factor, an American sleeper agent posted to Shanghai falls for a beautiful young Chinese woman who may be a spy for China’s government.
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Spies Like Us: PW Talks with Elliott Holt
Ex-expat Elliott Holt’s sly debut novel, You Are One of Them, follows Sarah Zuckerman, who travels to Moscow in 1995 to unravel a mystery from the Cold War years involving her childhood best friend.
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The Art of Science Writing: PW Talks with Thomas Hayden and Michelle Nijhuis: Focus on Reference 2012
Chronicling advances and research in the science world presents new challenges these days.
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Pleasure Politics: PW Talks With the Authors of 'The Feminist Porn Book'
The Feminist Porn Book collects essays that explore a grassroots movement that challenging traditional perspectives on pornography and feminism.
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The Transcribed Life: PW Talks With Kenneth Goldsmith
Poet Goldsmith’s Seven American Deaths and Disasters collages transcriptions of news reports and broadcasts of tragic, iconic events in American history. In doing so, he repackages the language of the media as it struggles with horrific events as they unfold.
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Q & A with Bob Staake
A bluebird befriends a lonely boy – and risks its life to protect him in a city park – in Bob Staake's wordless picture book, Bluebird.
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Q & A with Beth Reekles
The 17-year-old's self-published novel, The Kissing Booth, garnered millions of reads online – and landed the author a contract with Random House.
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Unmastered Angel: PW Talks with Katherine Angel
Poetic, intelligent, and unrelenting, Katherine Angel’s Unmastered: A Book on Desire, Most Difficult to Tell is a “thinking woman’s meditation” on sexual desire, language, politics, and the quest for individual liberation.
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Writing What You Want to Read: PW Talks with Ingrid Thoft
Ingrid Thoft’s first novel, Loyalty, introduces Fina Ludlow, house PI for her family’s Boston law firm.
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Southern Man: PW Talks with Kent Wascom
Native son Kent Wascom’s harrowing debut novel, Blood of Heaven, explores the often violent history of the early-19th-century region known as West Florida through the eyes of the fictional Angel Woolsack and the historic Samuel Kemper, both itinerant preachers’ sons.
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Outlaw Commentator: PW Talks With David A. Stockman
In his massive new tome, The Great Deformation, former Reagan budget director Stockman outlines the ways a renewed Keynesianism has corrupted the Reagan Revolution’s ideal of an economy based on free markets.
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Tktktk: PW Talks With Ann Percy
As Curator of Drawings at the Philadelphia Museum of Art, Percy has compiled Great and Mighty Things, which catalogues an extensive—and mind-bending—exhibition of “outsider” art from the museum’s Jill and Sheldon Bonovitz Collection.
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Q & A with Jennifer E. Smith
In Jennifer E. Smith's new YA novel, This Is What Happy Looks Like, a young Hollywood heartthrob accidentally sends an email to a smart, small-town girl, and a relationship blossoms – but a family secret threatens the romance.
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Q & A with Shirley Hughes
Award-winning author and illustrator Shirley Hughes's first novel, Hero on a Bicycle, a highly charged thriller set in Nazi-occupied Florence in 1944, will be released this month.
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Crisis and Opportunity: PW Talks With Michael D’Antonio
In Mortal Sins: Sex, Crime, and the Era of Catholic Scandal, reporter D’Antonio limns the revelations of endemic sexual abuse in the Catholic Church, which may have led to the Pope’s resignation.
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The Editor Speaks: PW Talks with Anthony Arnove
Actor Colin Firth faltered, found his footing, and finally spoke like a true noble by the end of the 2010 film The King’s Speech.
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Put Your Head on His Shoulder: PW Talks with Paul Anka
The 1960s pop star and song writer Paul Anka tells of his early rise to stardom and the friend he made along the way in My Way.
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Western Tales of Today: PW Talks with Craig Johnson
A polygamy group causes trouble for Walt Longmire in A Serpent’s Tooth, Craig Johnson’s ninth novel to feature the Wyoming sheriff, now the star of the A&E TV series Longmire.
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World Domination or Death: PW Talks with Sjón
With The Whispering Muse, The Blue Fox, and From the Mouth of the Whale being published on the same day in the U.S., there’s no doubt that Icelandic writer Sjón is coming to America.
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Vance and Burr’s ‘On The Ropes': A Sequel 20 Years in the Making
Writer James Vance and artist Dan E. Burr have reunited after 25 years to create On the Ropes, a sequel to their acclaimed graphic novel, Kings in Disguise. On the Ropes was published in March by W.W. Norton
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