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Some Words from the (War) Wise: PW Talks with Karl Marlantes
Karl Marlantes, author of the acclaimed novel Matterhorn, says young warriors need more than basic training to prepare for combat in What It Is Like to Go to War.
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Writing What He Knows: PW Talks with Daniel Woodrell
Daniel Woodrell, best-known for his novel, Winter's Bone, returns to the Missouri Ozarks in his first collection of short fiction, The Outlaw Album.
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Q & A with Lane Smith
Lane Smith's latest book, Grandpa Green, is about as far away in tone from his last, It's a Book, as is possible. He spoke with Bookshelf about memory and mortality from his home in Connecticut.
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Bullfighting Can Be Murder: PW Talks with Jason Webster
Jason Webster, who's lived in Spain since 1993, introduces Chief Insp. Max Cámara in Or the Bull Kills You.
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The Whistleblower: PW Talks with Peter Van Buren
State department insider Van Buren exposes the bungled occupation and reconstruction of Iraq in We Meant Well.
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My Horrible '70s Apocalypse: PW Talks with Colson Whitehead
Colson Whitehead takes on the end of the world (with zombies!) in Zone One.
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A Girl's Guide to Music: PW Talks with Courtney E. Smith
In Record Collecting for Girls, Courtney E. Smith writes about love and coming-of-age through music.
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Chaos and Crime: PW Talks with Leonard Rosen
Leonard Rosen's debut, All Cry Chaos, introduces Interpol agent Henri Poincaré.
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The Doors of Perception: PW Talks with Errol Morris
The celebrated director of such films as The Thin Blue Line and the Oscar-winning The Fog of War investigates some of photography's most iconic, enduring, and mysterious images in Believing Is Seeing from Penguin Press.
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Strunk and White Is So, Like, Over: PW Talks with John McWhorter
In What Language Is, linguist John McWhorter investigates the tongue-twisting complexities of language.
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You Can Go Home Again: PW Talks with Laura Lippman
Laura Lippman, best known for her Tess Monaghan PI series, sets her new stand-alone, The Most Dangerous Thing, in Dickeyville, the Baltimore neighborhood where she grew up.
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First Fiction 2011: Erin Morgenstern: High-Wire Act
It's no accident that Erin Morgenstern's first novel, The Night Circus (Doubleday), is set under the big top. Says the 32-year-old author, "The circus itself is my personal ideal entertainment venue."
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Seeing the Gorilla in the Room: PW Talks with Cathy N. Davidson
In Now You See It: How the Brain Science of Attention Will Transform the Way We Live, Work, and Learn, Cathy Davidson shows us what's in front of our noses.
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For Love or Money: PW Talks with Mary Gabriel
Gabriel delves into the tumultuous private life of Karl Marx in Love and Capital.
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Get Real: PW Talks with Steven Millhauser
For his new book, We Others: New and Selected Stories, Millhauser selects from three decades of work, revealing that some obsessions never go away.
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Aging the 21st-Century Way: PW Talks with Nortin Hadler
In Rethinking Aging, author Nortin Hadler, M.D., says we have to revise, individually and as a society, how we navigate the difficult waters of old age.
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The Tent-Preaching Circuit: PW Talks with Donna Johnson
In Holy Ghost Girl, Donna Johnson grows up under the influence of an evangelical preacher.
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The Zelig of Crime: PW Talks with Max Allan Collins
Nathan Heller, the fictional detective involved in almost every criminal cause célèbre of the 20th century, investigates the untimely death of Marilyn Monroe in Max Allan Collins's Bye, Bye Baby.
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Q & A with Patrick Ness and Denise Johnstone-Burt
In 2010 Walker Books announced the forthcoming publication of a new book; Patrick Ness, author of the Chaos Walking trilogy, was to complete a novel that had begun as a fragment and an idea written by Siobhan Dowd, who died of breast cancer before the novel was finished.