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That's Where Coyote Comes In: PW Talks with Hari Kunzru
For his new novel, Gods Without Men (Reviews, Jan. 9; pub date, Mar. 9), Hari Kunzru goes into the Mojave Desert with Jesuits, Native Americans, Mormons, veterans, UFO enthusiasts, Iraqi immigrants working as extras in war games, a British rock star, and a New York couple traumatized by the inexplicable disappearance of their autistic son.
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Poker Players and Fishermen: PW Talks with Owen Laukkanen
Owen Laukkanen, poker journalist–turned–thriller writer, makes his fiction debut with The Professionals.
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Back on a Raft with Taft: A Q&A with Jason Heller
In Jason Heller’s debut novel, Taft 2012, the journalist and author imagines a present-day campaign for William Howard Taft, whose presidential aspirations have reawakened a hundred years after the end of his one and only term.
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Revisiting Revelation: PW Talks with Elaine Pagels
Princeton University religion professor Elaine Pagels, who helped bring into the public eye the biblical also-rans—the Gnostic Gospels that didn’t make it into the Christian canon—takes a fresh look at the provocative Book of Revelation (Reviews, p. 47; pub date Mar. 6).
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A Modern-Day Almshouse: PW Talks with Victoria Sweet
With God’s Hotel, Victoria Sweet describes a unique style of patient care at Laguna Honda, the nation’s last almshouse.
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Luxembourg Noir: PW Talks with Chris Pavone
Former book editor Chris Pavone draws on his experiences
living with his family in Luxembourg for his first novel,
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Tough, Noble, and Cuddly: PW Talks with Lori Foster
Lori Foster’s A Perfect Storm extends her bestselling romantic suspense series about covert operatives and the women they love.
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So Much They Can't Share: A Q&A with Jodi Kantor
In The Obamas, journalist Kantor expands on her personal-is-political approach to look at the evolving relationships among the Obama family, the White House, and the Presidency.
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24 Million Secondary Characters: A Q&A with Adam Johnson
The Tip Sheet asked the author of The Orphan Master's Son: A Novel of North Korea what kind of impact the death of “dear leader” Kim Jong-il will have on the nation’s oppressed citizenry.
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Staring Down Mortality: PW Talks with Benjamin Busch
In Dust to Dust Benjamin Busch, son of novelist Frederick Busch, tells of his life drawn to sports, physical activity, and the military despite growing up in a literary family.
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Sweet Somethings: PW Talks with Meg Donohue
Meg Donohue writes like a baker in her sweet debut about friendship and trust between a spoiled, sophisticated young woman and her family’s cook’s free-spirited daughter, in How to Eat a Cupcake (Reviews, p. 55).
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And You Keep Your Pants Pulled Up: A Q&A with John Bridges
John Bridges, author of seven titles in Thomas Nelson's GentleManners series, discusses the update to his guide for young men 50 Things Every Young Gentleman Should Know.
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Amid Horror, Love Endures: PW Talks with Julianna Baggott
Pure, Baggott’s first horror novel, divides future humans into two classes: those cataclysmically merged with animals, toys, and other people, and the dome-dwelling, authoritarian “Pures.”
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A Jewish Cop at the End of Weimar: PW Talks with Paul Grossman
Where did Kraus come from?
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The Earned Fact: PW Talks with Katherine Boo
In her first book, Behind the Beautiful Forevers: Life, Death, and Hope in a Mumbai Undercity (Reviews, Oct. 17), Pulitzer Prize–winning journalist Katherine Boo explores the lives of several disparate personalities in a poor—yet far from hopeless—squatter settlement.
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From Turbulent 60s to Turbulent Teens: A Q&A with Ed Sanders
Ed Sanders, 72, is a storied icon of the 1960s counterculture, an author-poet-scholar-activist-musician-bookseller-underground publisher with a new memoir of the 60s called Fug You.
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Q & A with Katherine Applegate
In her bestselling Animorphs series, Katherine Applegate introduced teens with the ability to morph into any animal they touch. She offers a very different take on an animal story in The One and Only Ivan, (Harper).
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Love, Fighting, Death, Longing: PW Talks with Madeline Miller
Fresh off her Orange Prize win for The Song of Achilles, Madeline Miller talks about her personal connection to Greek mythology.
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Scout’s Honor: PW Talks with Stacy A. Cordery
In Juliette Gordon Low: The Remarkable Founder of the Girl Scouts, Stacy A. Cordery delves into Low’s fascinating and untraditional life.
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Not Exactly Everyday Engineering: A Q&A with Brian Clegg
We asked Clegg about his new book How to Build a Time Machine, some of his favorite time travel stories, and the most important scientific discovery of his lifetime.
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