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  • A Liberal Sounds Off on Liberal Bias

    PW: Why did you want to write What Liberal Media?

  • Don't Call Me Gritty: Richard Price Talks to PW Daily

    With more than 150,000 copies hitting bookstores, Richard Price's latest novel, Samaritan, is sure to sit in high piles on the new fiction hardcover tables at bookstores across the country.

  • Lord Peter Wimsey and Harriet Vane Redux

    PW: How does your second posthumous collaboration with Dorothy Sayers, A Presumption of Death, differ from your first?

  • Spy Games

    PW: The Confessor obviously draws on the research of Holocaust historians like Susan Zucotti and Daniel Goldhagen. To what extent would you say your works are influenced by WWII?

  • Evolution Sets Us Free

    PW: What is the main idea behind Freedom Evolves?

  • Fear and Loathing in the New Millennium

    PW: Is your new book, Kingdom of Fear, all new material?

  • Whiz Kid Redux

    Purdy, who had moved to New York City only days before, met with PW at a midtown Italian restaurant to discuss his new book, Being America. A home-schooled graduate of Harvard and Yale Law School who has recently begun clerking for a federal judge, Purdy has the remarkable skill—a politician's skill—of speaking in fully formed paragraphs, even while eating.

  • The Mind of the Ladies' Man

    PW: There are many real people in Cad, and not all of them are depicted flatteringly. Has anyone else seen the book? Have your ex-girlfriends seen it? Has Vanilla Ice seen it?

  • Private Ryan Meets Alien

    PW: Is it true your horror thriller Jinn started in a college writing seminar?

  • How to Go 12 Rounds in the Ring of Life

    PW: You're a former world heavyweight champ, you're a preacher, you're a spokesman for Salton [maker of the wildly popular Foreman grills]. You have a lot on your plate. Why did you write George Foreman's Guide to Life.

  • Radical Grace

    PW: How did you come to write A Glimpse of Jesus?

  • The Wheel Turns Another Notch

    PW: You're one of today's major fantasy authors. Did you always know you wanted to write? Robert Jordan: Yes, defining "always" as being from the age of five, but when I was about nine or 10, it became clear to me that writers couldn't make a living in the United States. They always had some other means of employment.

  • A Wine Country Squatter

    Alan Deutschman, author of A Tale of Two Valleys: Wine, Wealth, and the Battle for the Good Life in Napa and Sonoma spoke with PW by phone from his home in San Francisco.

  • Murder at the World's Fair

    PW: The Devil in the White City and your bestseller, Isaac's Storm, take place within a few years of each other. What is it about the late 19th century that appeals to you?

  • Traveling at the Speed of Dark

    PW:The Speed of Dark, your latest novel, features Lou Arrendale, an "autist," and invokes comparison to the classic, Flowers for Algernon. Were you consciously inspired by it?

  • Wen Ho Lee Redux: An Insider's Take

    Notra Trulock was head of intelligence for the Department of Energy when the investigation was conducted into whether Los Alamos staffer Wen Ho Lee had given American nuclear secrets to the People's Republic of China. In Code Name Kindred Spirit,Trulock offers his account of the investigation.

  • Crime on the Ropes

    PW: You have a solid one-two punch this season with Shadow Boxer and a poster book, The Art of Noir. How do you feel about that? Eddie Muller: I feel great about it, but I'd be lying if I didn't say that all of the nonfiction I have done is a set-up for the novels. My real interest is in fiction, in writing those novels.

  • Inspector Banks Goes Home

    PW: You began your writing career as a poet, but with the publication of Close to Home you've finished your 15th novel and the 13th to feature Det. Chief Insp. Alan Banks. What led you to crime fiction?

  • The Name Is Troy. Freddie Troy.

    PW: Old Flames is the second novel featuring Freddie Troy. Will you continue the series?

  • A Pseudonymous Author Takes on Hollywood

    PW: Your novel [Man Eater] begs comparison with those of Elmore Leonard. Is he a primary influence?

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