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What Videogames Can Be: A Q&A with Anna Anthropy
Anna Anthropy has made a big stir in the world of small videogames,. In Rise of the Videogame Zinesters, she examines the auteur-driven, boundary-bending videogame revolution she helps lead.
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Sexuality, Independence, Economic Empowerment: A Q&A with Liza Mundy
In her latest, journalist Liza Mundy (Michelle: A Biography) looks at the emerging generation of women heads-of-household who make more than—or otherwise do without—the man of the house.
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Death Comes from the Archbishop's Son: PW Talks with James Runcie
James Runcie, whose father was the archbishop of Canterbury, introduces a clerical sleuth in Sidney Chambers and the Shadow of Death.
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Tock Tick
The author of Tokyo Suckerpunch returns with Complication, a literary thriller about a man traveling to Prague to put his brother’s mysterious death to rest.
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Whatever the Emergency Is: A Q&A with Lisa Bedford
Lisa Bedford is an average mom who, over the past four years, has become an expert survivalist. In The Survival Mom, she documents strategies for every conceivable emergency and disaster.
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Getting the Government Out of Our Bedrooms: A Q&A with Dale Carpenter
In Flagrant Conduct: The Story of Lawrence v. Texas, law professor Dale Carptenter examines the landmark 2002 case resulting from the arrest of two gay men in their home by sheriff’s deputies.
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Paranoid, Eerie, Hippie-Dippie and Drugged-Out: A History of San Francisco
Journalist David Talbot didn't just write about the 15 years of SF history that saw the rise and fall of Haight-Ashbury, Harvey Milk, Janis Joplin, Jim Jones, Charles Manson, and others—he was there.
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His Brother's Keeper: PW Talks with Wiley Cash
Wiley Cash’s debut novel, A Land More Kind than Home, is a dark and haunting mystery about the death of a disabled boy during a Pentecostal service in a small North Carolina town.
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The Future Is Fun: PW Talks with Kim Stanley Robinson
In 2312, Kim Stanley Robinson envisions the solar system 300 years hence as a playground for genetically altered superhumans and semisentient quantum computers who turn planets into works of art.
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Spies with Families: PW Talks with Mark Harril Saunders
Mark Harril Saunders’s debut, Ministers of Fire, follows veteran U.S. official and intelligence agent Lucius Burling through Afghanistan and China as he struggles to make sense of the post-9/11 world.
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Completely On Their Own: A Q&A with Jessie Klein
In The Bully Society, professor Jessie Klein takes a hard look at bullying: its root causes and the full range of consequences—school shootings being the most extreme example.
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Q & A with Jane O'Connor
Speaking to Bookshelf from her office at Penguin Books for Young Readers, where she is editor-at-large, Jane O’Connor discussed Fancy Nancy’s success and new incarnation as a Nancy Drew wannabe in a chapter book, Jane O’Connor’s Nancy Clancy, Super Sleuth,illustrated by Robin Preiss Glasser.
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The Bible Told Her So: Jeanette Winterson
It would take a powerful and imaginative writer to create a character as imposing and memorable as Mrs. Winterson, a major player in Jeanette Winterson’s memoir, Why Be Happy When You Could Be Normal? (Grove). But creating her wasn’t necessary. The memorable Mrs. Winterson was Jeanette Winterson’s adoptive mother, and a mother most of us would consider terrifying.
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Not All Velvety Smooth: PW Talks with Rob Jovanovic
In his Seeing the Light: Inside the Velvet Underground, Rob Jovanovic offers an absorbing and definitive
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Comic Absurdity and Deep Emotion: PW Talks with Tessa Dare
In A Week to Be Wicked, Tessa Dare’s second Regency-era romance set in the spinster haven of Spindle Cove, a charming, worldly rake falls for an ambitious but socially awkward bluestocking.
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Setting Dictates the Crime: PW Talks with Jassy Mackenzie
Crime spoils a holiday for Jade de Jong in The Fallen, Jassy Mackenzie’s fourth mystery featuring the South African PI.
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A Profound Struggle: PW Talks with John Donatich
John Donatich, who as director of the Yale University Press has published bestselling authors Christopher Hitchens, Steven Pinker, and Alan Dershowitz, examines how the Catholic Church, faith, and classical music relate to the modern world in his debut novel, The Variations.
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The Many Facets of Dickens: A Q&A with Jenny Hartley
In time for his 200th birthday, Jenny Hartley pored through the 12-volume British Academy Pilgrim collection of Charles Dickens’s correspondence to produce The Selected Letters of Charles Dickens.
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Chick Lit for Grownups: PW Talks with Jane Green
In her latest novel, Another Piece of My Heart, Jane Green tackles blended families and the struggles of being a stepmother.
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Translating Human Rights: PW Talks with Jeffrey Yang
Poet and editor Jeffrey Yang spoke to PW about translating Nobel Peace Prize–winner Liu Xiaobo’s groundbreaking book of poetry, June Fourth Elegies, which mourns those who died during the Tiananmen Square protests.
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