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Sh*t My Dad Says About Love: PW Talks with Justin Halpern
Justin Halpern had been struggling for years as a writer in Hollywood when a break-up and a dwindling bank account forced him to move back in with his parents. His father's hilariously profane bon mots inspired him to start a Twitter account dedicated to Halpern Sr.'s one-liners and sarcastic observations.
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How Quickly Things Can Change: 'PW' Talks with Bill Bradley
The newest government prescription from the former senator, We Can All Do Better, includes a return to “horse-trading for a noble purpose” and the creation of a strong, locally-based third parties.
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Rough Magic: PW Talks with James Treadwell
James Treadwell’s Advent mixes fantasy and religion, and adult and YA themes, in the story of a teen boy in the present day who encounters mysterious artifacts created by legendary magus Johannes Faust.
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The Hunger: PW Talks with Marc Fitten
A Hungarian divorcée restaurateur, bored with her sous chef lover and classic cooking, lights some new fires in Marc Fitten’s second novel, Elza’s Kitchen.
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Exploded Memories: PW Talks with Brian Castner
After heading an explosive ordnance disposal team during two tours in Iraq. Brian Castner was unprepared for civilian life, as he relates in The Long Walk.
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Life and Death Connections: PW Talks with Bernd Heinrich
In Life Everlasting: The Animal Way of Death, physiological ecologist Bernd Heinrich encourages us to see death as a starting point for life, with dead matter feeding organisms throughout the ecosystem.
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Doing Good Work, Diligently: PW Talks with Alastair Reynolds
In Alastair Reynolds’s Blue Remembered Earth, the first in the near-future Poseidon’s Children series, an East African biologist’s dying grandmother leaves clues to a mystery that takes him to the Moon and beyond.
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The Beginning of the Holocaust: PW Talks with Richard Zimler
In Richard Zimler’s The Seventh Gate, a Christian teenager, Sophie Riedesel, fights for justice
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L.A. Woman: PW Talks with Dana Johnson
In her debut novel, Elsewhere, California, Dana Johnson returns to Avery, who first appeared in her Flanner O’Connor Award-winning short story collection, Break Any Woman Down.
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Q & A with Paolo Bacigalupi
Paolo Bacigalupi's first novel for young adults, Ship Breaker, won the Printz Award and placed him firmly on the radar of the YA world. He returns to the post-cataclysmic realm of Ship Breaker with The Drowned Cities. The author spoke with PW about the differences between writing for adults and for teens, and the distinction he draws between dystopias and science fiction.
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An Improbable Business: PW Talks with Padgett Powell
In You & Me, two old men argue on a front porch “somewhere between Bakersfield, California, and Jacksonville, Florida.” But the real setting is Padgett Powell’s head.
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Delineating a Why: PW Talks with John Katzenbach
A professor with dementia seeks a missing girl in John Katzenbach’s What Comes Next.
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Oklahoma City, 17 Years On: A Q&A with Andrew Gumbel
In time for the attack’s 17th anniversary, Morrow releases Oklahoma City: What the Investigation Missed—and Why It Still Matters by investigative journalists Andrew Gumbel and Roger G. Charles.
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Q & A with Barry Lyga
Barry Lyga’s latest novel, I Hunt Killers, tells the story of Jazz, the son of the world's greatest serial killer. Going beyond the usual tropes of the thriller genre, Lyga explores the effect of murder on the family of the killer and on the community as a whole.
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A Picture's Worth a Thousand Words: PW Talks with Phil & Kaja Foglio
Zany gaslight fantasy Agatha H. and the Clockwork Princess, the second Girl Genius volume to be converted from comic to novel, follows Agatha Heterodyne and her talking cat, Krosp, as they perform with the eccentric cast of Master Payne's Circus of Adventure in an attempt to elude the predatory airship Castle Wulfenbach.
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Realism and Idealism: PW Talks with James Mann
James Mann analyzes the work of a new generation of foreign policymakers in The Obamians: The Struggle Inside the White House to Redefine American Power.
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Darkness in the Land of the Rising Sun: PW Talks with Richard Lloyd Parry
The strange case of the murder of a young British woman in Japan is the focus of Richard Lloyd Parry’s 'People Who Eat Darkness.'
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Fighting for Justice: PW Talks with Sergio de la Pava
Like Casi, his overworked protagonist in A Naked Singularity, Sergio de la Pava is a public defender in Manhattan. Casi defends drug addicts and immigrants, avoids his neighbors, gets talked into stealing drug money, and ponders the case of Jalen Kingg, a Skittles-lover on death row.
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One Writer, One Ranger: PW Talks with Ace Atkins
Ace Atkins follows Robert B. Parker’s Lullaby with The Lost Ones, his second novel featuring ranger-turned-lawman Quinn Colson.
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Sexual Outsiders: Three Questions with John Irving
PW caught up with John Irving to discover more about his forthcoming novel, In One Person (S&S). The book explores the nature of unfulfilled love through the voice of Billy, the bisexual narrator and main character, who tells the tragicomic story of his life.
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