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The Poet as Hero: PW Talks with Leila Aboulela
Leila Aboulela turns tragedy into triumph in Lyrics Alley, her dazzling new novel inspired by the life of her uncle, the late Sudanese poet Hassan Awad Aboulela.
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Q & A with Judy Blundell
With Strings Attached, Judy Blundell has to follow her own tough act: her first foray into YA, What I Saw and How I Lied, won the 2008 National Book Award. She spoke to PW about her inspiration, and why one of her 39 Clues collaborators may still not be speaking to her.
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The Trail of Toys: PW Talks with Donovan Hohn
When thousands of rubber duckies fall overboard from a container ship en route to the U.S. from China, Hohn, an English teacher turned investigator of the high seas, tracks them down in Moby-Duck.
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Death and Tigers: PW Talks with Tea Obreht
Myth and the real converge in debut novelist Téa Obreht's stunning The Tiger's Wife (reviewed on page 26), where a tiger and a deathless man stalk through history.
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Playboys of the Western World: PW Talks with Joseph O'Connor
In his eighth novel, Ghost Light, bestselling Irish author Joseph O'Connor reimagines the love affair between controversial playwright J.M. Synge and his leading lady, Molly Allgood.
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Q & A with Ellen Potter
In 2003, Ellen Potter made a lively splash onto the scene with her middle-grade novel Olivia Kidney. Most recently, the author tapped into memories of her own childhood reading to pen The Humming Room, a novel inspired by Frances Hodgson Burnett’s The Secret Garden.
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The Monday Interview with Elliot Tiber
An interview with Elliot Tiber, whose Palm Trees on the Hudson: A True Story of the Mob, Judy Garland & Interior Decorating was published January 3 by Square One Publishers.
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The Troubled King of Chess: PW Talks with Frank Brady
In Endgame, Chess Life founding editor Frank Brady explores the brilliant, bizarre life of Bobby Fischer.
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Inspired by Jason Bourne: PW Talks with Taylor Stevens
Vanessa Michael Munroe, the androgynous hero of Taylor Stevens's thriller debut, The Informationist, has a past that in part reflects the closed, nomadic existence of the author growing up in the Children of God cult.
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Exit Interview: PW talks to Retiring University of California Press Director Lynne Withey
After 25 years, the last nine as director, Lynne Withey retired at the end of 2010 from the University of California Press, winding down a career marked by significant growth, innovation, and service.
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Q & A with Elizabeth Eulberg
A book publicist for a dozen years, first for Scholastic and currently for Little, Brown as director of global publicity for Stephenie Meyer, Elizabeth Eulberg stepped into the role of author with The Lonely Hearts Club. Scholastic's Point imprint is publishing her second YA novel, Prom & Prejudice, a modern-day retelling of Jane Austen's Pride and Prejudice. Bookshelf caught up with Eulberg—who like Lizzie lives in Hoboken—to talk about the novel and her writing life.
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Here's a Little Story that Must be Told: PW Talks to Dan Charnas
Hip-hop journalist Dan Charnas tells the story of the corporate battles and street scuffles that made hip-hop in The Big Payback.
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The Monday Interview with Karen Abbott
An interview with Karen Abbott, whose American Rose: A Nation Laid Bare—The Life and Times of Gypsy Rose Lee is out from Random House.
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The Abduction That Changed America: PW Talks with Les Standiford and Det. Sgt. Joe Matthews
Bringing Adam Home (Reviews, Nov. 29) tells for the first time how Det. Sgt. Joe Matthews solved the 1983 abduction and murder of six-year-old Adam Walsh.
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The Perpetrator and the Victim: PW Talks with Anders Roslund and Börge Hellström
Sterling launches its new Silver Oak imprint with Swedish authors Anders Roslund and Börge Hellström's suspenseful thriller, Three Seconds. They have responded jointly in the third person.
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Consolations of Memory: PW Talks withTamara Chalabi
In Late for Tea at the Deer Palace, journalist Tamara Chalabi, daughter of controversial Iraqi leader Ah-med Chalabi, revisits her family's history in a vibrant, troubled Iraq.
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Fall 2010 Flying Starts: Sarah Dooley
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Fall 2010 Flying Starts: Matthew Kirby
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Fall 2010 Flying Starts: Kiersten White
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The Missing: PW Talks with Hannah Pittard
Hannah Pittard's The Fates Will Find Their Way plays out a number of possibilities of what happened to a kidnapped girl and how her disappearance affects those around her.