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Birth of a Genre: PW Talks with Michael Sims

By Lenny Picker | 11/25/2011 @ 07:00PM

Michael Sims surveys the development of the mystery tale in The Dead Witness: A Connoisseur’s Collection of Victorian Detective Stories.
American Horror Stories: PW Talks with Dan Chaon

By Dan Meyer | 11/25/2011 @ 07:00PM

Haunting and intense, Stay Awake, Dan Chaon’s latest collection of short stories, peels back the layers of ordinary lives marked by accidents and isolation, dark pasts, and uncertain futures.
Gifted Men: PW Talks with Neal Baer and Jonathan Greene

By Lenny Picker | 11/18/2011 @ 07:00PM

Law & Order: SVU executive producers Neal Baer and Jonathan Greene, now the co-producers of CBS’s medical drama, A Gifted Man, make their fiction debut with Kill Switch.
Secret Society: PW Talks with Stef Penney

By Ruby Cutolo | 11/18/2011 @ 07:00PM

Stef Penney’s second novel, The Invisible Ones, sets the mystery of a missing girl in the always mysterious world of “the Travellers,” the English Romany gypsies.
And Then There Were Notebooks: A Q&A with John Curran

By Gabe Habash | 11/18/2011 @ 12:00AM

Agatha Christie archivist (and lifelong fan) John Curran releases Murder in the Making: More Stories and Secrets from Agatha Christie’s Notebooks, his second volume of posthumous discoveries from Christie’s unpublished notes. Emailing from Dublin, Curran previews some of those discoveries for Tip Sheet.
Q & A with Colleen Houck

By Sally Lodge | 11/17/2011 @ 03:00PM

It's been a year of firsts for Colleen Houck: her first novel, Tiger's Curse, the first installment of a five-book series, was the first release from Splinter, Sterling's YA imprint.
The Monday Interview: Alan Shayne and Norman Sunshine

By Dick Donahue | 11/14/2011 @ 12:00AM

A conversation with Alan Shayne and Norman Sunshine, whose memoir, Double Life: A Love Story from Broadway to Hollywood, was just published by Magnus Books.
Turn Loss into Light: PW Talks with Lewis Richmond

By Jean E. Barker | 11/11/2011 @ 07:00PM

Lewis Richmond—Zen Buddhist priest, meditation teacher, columnist for the Huffington Post, musician—addresses the challenges facing a generation of baby boomers as life catches up with them in Aging as a Spiritual Practice: A Contemplative Guide to Growing Older and Wiser.
Boys in Love: PW Talks with J.H. Trumble

By Cat Rambo | 11/11/2011 @ 07:00PM

In Don’t Let Me Go, debut author Trumble describes a tumultuous romance between Texas teens Nate and Adam, who stand strong in the face of homophobia and violence, but falter when faced with distance and the temptation of infidelity.
God to Us: 'Drop Dead': PW Talks with Shalom Auslander

By Martha Schulman | 11/11/2011 @ 07:00PM

Hope: A Tragedy, Shalom Auslander’s new novel, is very funny despite his hapless hero, Solomon Kugel, having to deal with a mother who insists she’s a Holocaust survivor, the local arsonist, and an unwanted guest in the attic.
Q&A: Why Kevin Wilson Loves Nicole Kidman

By Marc Schultz | 11/11/2011 @ 12:00AM

Just two months after the release of Kevin Wilson's debut novel, the production company of Nicole Kidman and Per Saari had acquired the screen rights--with Kidman herself expected to fill the role of clan matriarch Camille Fang. PW caught up with Wilson for a phone interview about movie adaptations, Nicole Kidman’s strangest roles, and why happy endings make no sense.
Q&A: Deborah Davis, Keeper of Oprah's Flame

By Marc Schultz | 11/11/2011 @ 12:00AM

Abrams celebrates the legacy of America’s most beloved talk-show host with this week’s release of The Oprah Winfrey Show: Reflections on an American Legacy. Nonfiction author Deborah Davis, whose friends describe her beat as “the rich and the dead,” was tapped to write Abrams's 25-year retrospective. The Tip Sheet spoke to her over the phone this week about condensing 25 years of television history into a six-month whirlwind of viewing, researching, and writing.
On a Mission: PW Talks with Corban Addison

By Hilary S. Kayle | 11/04/2011 @ 07:00PM

For his debut novel, A Walk Across the Sun, attorney Corban Addison went undercover in brothels to illuminate the plight of the international sex slave trade.
Beautiful Girls: PW Talks with Sonia Faleiro

By Kat Laskowski | 10/28/2011 @ 07:00PM

Journalist Faleiro delves into Bombay’s underworld to reveal the secretive world of bar dancers in Beautiful Thing.
A Laotian Quincy: PW Talks with Colin Cotterill

By Lenny Picker | 10/28/2011 @ 07:00PM

Colin Cotterill’s eighth mystery starring Dr. Siri Paiboun, Slash and Burn, is billed as the last starring the acerbic Laotian national coroner.
Apocalipsis Mexicano Fantastico: PW Talks with Eduardo Jimenez Mayo and Chris N. Brown

By Amy Boaz | 10/28/2011 @ 07:00PM

Three Messages and a Warning presents a diverse collection of stories of the strange and fantastical by new and established Mexican writers, edited by critic and translator Eduardo Jiménez Mayo and author and critic Chris N. Brown.
Q & A with Barry Denenberg

By Sally Lodge | 10/27/2011 @ 03:00PM

As he did in Lincoln Shot!, Barry Denenberg meshes fact and fiction to tell the story of the building of the Titanic and its doomed maiden voyage, in Titanic Sinks! (Viking).
On the Rez: PW Talks with David Treuer

By Will Swarts | 10/21/2011 @ 07:00PM

Treuer, a young Native American novelist (The Translation of Dr. Apelles; The Hiawatha) offers an informed insider’s view of Ojibwe tribal history and family culture in Rez Life
Postapocalyptic Irreverence: PW Talks with Ryan Boudinot

By Donna Walters Kozberg | 10/21/2011 @ 07:00PM

Boudinot takes readers on a frenzied trip through a hypernetworked future after an apocalypse in Blueprints of the Afterlife.
A Conversation with Sam McBratney

By Judith Rosen | 10/20/2011 @ 03:00PM

To celebrate the reissue of his now-classic book, Guess How Much I Love You in a pop-up edition (with illustrations by the original artist, Anita Jeram), Irish author Sam McBratney visited the U.S. for the first time in a decade and did a whirlwind tour last month.

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