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On the Road with Alexander McCall Smith
In a Web-exclusive Q & A, the author of the bestselling No. 1 Ladies Detective Agency mystery series--the newest volume of which, The Good Husband of Zebra Drive, has just come out--talks to PW about doing several book tours a year on three continents.
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Chasing Lai Changxiang
PW talks with Oliver August.
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The New Romantics
PW talks with Liz Maverick.
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Children's Bookshelf Talks with Nancy Garden
It's been 25 years since the publication of Nancy Garden's groundbreaking novel Annie on My Mind, the story of two teen girls in love.
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Earth, After the Rapture
PW Talks with Alan Weisman.
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A Whodunit About the African American Upper Crust
PW Talks with Stephen L. Carter
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On the Road with Steven Bach
Leni Riefenstahl was a pioneering filmmaker, a friend of Hitler's, an infamous Nazi propagandist, and the subject of Steven Bach's newest biography. PW caught up with Bach mid-tour to see how audiences have been responding to this controversial book.
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Seeing Egypt from the Nile
In Down the Nile: Alone in a Fisherman's Skiff, Rosemary Mahoney describes traveling solo as a woman through Egypt.
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The Other Woman Behind a Great Architect
PW talks with Nancy Horan.
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Ridley Pearson Gets Real in Sun Valley
When Killer Weekend, Ridley Pearson's new crime series kicks off, he'll be bringing murder and mayhem to his own backyard—and he couldn't be happier about it.
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Children's Bookshelf Talks with Gary Schmidt
Printz and Newbery Honor winner Gary Schmidt (Lizzie Bright and the Buckminster Boy) mined his Long Island childhood for his latest book, The Wednesday Wars (Clarion). Bookshelf caught up with Schmidt while he was on the road, talking to school kids about his books.
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On the Road with AM Homes
A well-known novelist-turned-memoirist goes on tour and discovers that readers are stranger dealing with fact than with fiction.
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Writing to Save a Life
PW Talks with Jonis Agee.
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Film vs. Fiction
PW talks with Robert Ellis.
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On the Road with T Cooper
Novelist T Cooper talks with PW in a Web-exclusive Q & A about feeling like a rock star in Germany, reading at Google, and what punk rock taught her about planning a book tour.
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Anyone Can Start a Blog: a Web-Exclusive Q & A with Tao Lin
PW Talks with fiction writer and blogger Tao Lin about his new novel and story collection both coming from Melville House, depressing books and literary life on the Web. He also gives a guided tour of his Internet.
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Armistead Maupin’s Family Ties
Tales of the City author Armistead Maupin, now 62, has made a career out of challenging the definition of “family” in America.
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Creative Marriage, British Style
PW Talks with Katie Roiphe.
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Igniting Eco-awareness Thriller-style
PW Talks with Alex Kava.
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Children's Bookshelf Talks With Mikhail Baryshnikov
Mikhail Baryshnikov sashays into the children's book field with Because (Atheneum/Seo), illustrated by longtime friend Vladimir Radunsky. Bookshelf caught up with the dancer recently at his New York studio.