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Pen Pals
In her new book, White Heat (Reviews, June 23), literary critic Brenda Wineapple looks closely at the 25-year epistolary friendship between the reclusive Emily Dickinson and activist and man of letters Thomas Wentworth Higginson, to whom she sent many of her most famous poems. Higginson was criticized for his part in the heavily edited posthumous versions of Dickinson's poems and, until now, ha...
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Mongolian Noir
Michael Walters's first novel, The Shadow Walker (Reviews, June 16), is a mystery set in modern Mongolia, to which the British author has traveled as a management consultant. When did you first visit Mongolia? In the early 1990s, when the country was going through dramatic change following the collapse of the U.
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Hit Parade: PW Talks with Lawrence BlockA Web-Exclusive Q&A
Prolific mystery writer Lawrence Blocks talks to PW about his latest series starring Keller, the laconic, stamp-collecting hitman on the brink of retirement. William Morrow will publish Hit and Run on Block’s 70th birthday.
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Bad Moon Setting
After nearly four decades of marriage, Anne Roiphe's husband collapsed from a fatal heart attack in the lobby of their apartment building. In her new memoir, Epilogue, she puts to the test the old saying, “Time is the widow's friend,” as she begins rebuilding her life. Tell me about the significance of the moon in the book.
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Tolstoy in Queens
Irina Reyn's debut novel, What Happened to Anna K., transports Anna Karenina to Queens, N.Y., where she struggles with familiar issues of identity, social rules, gender and loyalty a century later and a continent away.
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Washed Up by 15
The second thriller from former Cosmopolitan (U.K.) editor-in-chief Sam Baker starring fashion journalist Annie Anderson, Deadly Beautiful, takes a hard look at the too often brief careers of teen models, one of whom, Scarlett Ulrich, may be the victim of a serial killer in Japan.
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Q & A with Diana Wynne Jones
Bookshelf spoke with Diana Wynne Jones about her new novel, House of Many Ways (Greenwillow).
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Critics Have Feelings, Too
James Wood, 42, is from the U.K. He's tall, walks fast, drives a white Mini Cooper, speaks eloquently and enjoys a nicely tended garden. It's after lunch, and he's walking (quickly) down Brattle Street in Cambridge, Mass., when he spots two kids playing on the immaculate front lawn of a stately house.
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The Mighty Jungle
Kira Salak made her name as a chronicler of her daring adventures in the remotest corners of the globe. In The White Mary, she gives us Marika Vecera, an explorer who ventures into the jungles of Papua New Guinea and confronts the perils hidden within her own heart. After so much success with nonfiction, what inspired you to turn to fiction? While I love writing nonfiction, I'...
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Women on the Edge
Novelist Elizabeth Subercaseaux was born in Chile and worked as a journalist during the Pinochet dictatorship. She left Chile in 1990 and married an American academic. She now lives near Philadelphia, though she still writes a column for La Nación in Santiago, covering American politics. A Week in October is her first novel to be translated into English.
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The Science of Murder
Simon Baatz explores the role psychiatry played in the legendary 1924 Leopold and Loeb case, in For the Thrill of It.
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No Bones About It
It takes discipline,” bestselling crime writer Kathy Reichs says. “Any time that I'm not at my lab or testifying or traveling, I write all day.” Reichs, 57, embodies the age-old adage of writing what you know: she is a board-certified forensic anthropologist who divides her time between working for the state Office of the Chief Medical Examiner in North Carolina and the Labora...
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Ann Leary--Wife of Comedian and Actor Denis Leary--Turns Novelist: A PW Web-Exclusive Q&A
Out-Takes from A Marriage takes a look at our celebrity culture.
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Burden of Revenge
In Edgar-finalist Michael Koryta's Envy the Night, a stand-alone thriller, Frank Temple III struggles to come to terms with the violent legacy of his father, a government agent turned gun for hire.
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On Tomato Farming
In Heirloom (Reviews, May 12), Tim Stark discusses his journey from Brooklyn to rural Pennsylvania to farm. In the book, you say that none of your neighbors are organic farmers. What made you decide to grow organically? Chemicals can be gross and smell awful, so when I started, I did everything by hand.
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The Original Dr. Feelgood
In The Dangerous Joy of Dr. Sex (Reviews, May 19), Lambda award-winner Kennedy investigates the life of the elusive author of The Joy of Sex and profiles a carnival of eccentrics, altruists and visionaries. How did you get interested in Alex Comfort? I rediscovered him on the Kinsey Institute Web site where I was spelunking around for my previous book [The First Man-Made Man].
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Cultivating and Creating Culture
A writer and cultural critic encourages Christians to not only embrace culture but create more of it. What motivated you to write Culture Making? One of the things that initially motivated me was thinking about how cultures change. As I read the work of academic sociologists like Peter Berger, I became really convinced that the only way that cultures change is when people make more culture.
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Q&A with Catherine Gilbert Murdock
Catherine Gilbert Murdoch, the author of Dairy Queen and its sequel, The Off Season, took a break from writing book three about D.J. and her family with a fantasy novel about a teen-aged princess who must save her kingdom, Princess Ben (Houghton Mifflin).
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The English Criminal Lifestyle
Martina Cole, the #1 bestselling author of adult fiction in the U.K., makes her U.S. debut with Close, a saga about one underworld London family over a period of 40 years.
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Jackets Required: The Lazarus Project
For the most part, this jacket art works. But that eyeball... concave lens distortion, anyone?
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