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Finding God in Our Suffering
PW talks with Anne Graham Lotz.
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It's Not Just a Game
PW talks with Alex Prud'homme.
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Martin on Martin
PW asks Martin Marty, "You note in your biography Martin Luther that although Luther is often cited as one of the most influential people of the last millennium, there are only three English-language biographies of him in print. Why?"
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The Wonder of Malls
PW asks Paco Underhill, "How many trips to the mall did it take to write Call of the Mall?"
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Death on Demand for Fun
PW asks Carolyn Hart, "When you wrote your first Death on Demand novel, why did you have your amateur sleuth, Annie Darling, own a mystery bookstore?"
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The Puzzle of Detective Inspector John Rebus
PW asks Ian Rankin, "For the benefit of American readers, what exactly is "Irn-Bru," which appears so often in your novels?"
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Life on the Edge of Poverty
PW asks David Shipler, "You've made a career writing about foreign policy. What made you decide to shift your focus to domestic economic policy in The Working Poor?"
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Forgotten Valor: John Kerry in Vietnam
PW asks Douglas Brinkley, "What inspired you to write Tour of Duty?"
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Hibernian Noir
PW says to Ken Bruen, "Let's talk first about Jack Taylor, the hardened yet bookish protagonist of The Guards and now The Killing of the Tinkers."
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Are You Quirky and Alone or Quirkyalone?
PW asks Sasha Cagen, "How widespread is the quirkyalone movement?"
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A Host of Ideas from an NBA Host
PW met with Walter Mosley, host of this year's National Book Awards ceremony, days before the event at a downtown Manhattan restaurant.
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Merlin and the Eternal Pursuit of the Iron Grail
PW asks Robert Holdstock, "What inspired you to intersect Greek myth with Celtic legend in Celtika and now The Iron Grail?"
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Dreaming Big
PW asks Desmond Tutu, "The title of your book is God Has a Dream. What is God's dream?"
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Taking Back the Word
Chalmers Johnson's The Sorrows of Empire is the second volume in the new American Empire series, edited for Metropolitan Books by Steve Fraser and Tom Engelhardt.
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Pool Shark
PW asks Haven Kimmel, "What inspired you to make pool a focus of your second novel, Something Rising?"
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From Cod to Salt to... 1968
PW asks Mark Kurlansky, "What were you doing in 1968?"
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Cold War Games
PW aks John Eidinow, "How did you make the transition from a dispute between two philosophers (in Wittgenstein's Poker) to Bobby Fischer Goes to War?"
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The All American Thanksgiving: David Rosengarten Talks Turkey
David Rosengarten is one of the original chef presenters on the Food Network (now celebrating its 10th anniversary). Since leaving TV, he has written cookbooks, appeared on radio--where he is a regular on The Splendid Table--and launched The Rosengarten Report.
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Who Is Jan Bondeson and Why Is He Telling These Strange Stories?
PW asks Jan Bondeson, "What draws you to these types of subjects?"
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Joe Sacco, Comics Journalist
PW asks Joe Sacco, "Tell us why you returned to Bosnia and Sarajevo and about Neven, the 'fixer.'"
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