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A '60s Icon Speaks
PW: Why have you waited until now, more than three decades after the leaking of the Pentagon Papers to the press, to write Secrets: A Memoir of Vietnam and the Pentagon Papers?
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Faith Without Fundamentalism
PW: Why did you write The American Creed? FC: The book was forged in the crucible of September 11. I worked on an instant book after 9/11 for Walker (Restoring Faith), which was a collection of 24 sermons delivered the week after the terrorist attacks. That was, in and of itself, an intense project, combined with my ministry here in New York to a large congregation [All Souls Unitarian Chur...
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Stones Bass Player Displays New Chops
PW: Rolling with the Stones features a young Bill Wyman saying that jumping around onstage is okay when you're 20, but embarrassing when you're 25. Why did you continue jumping around into your 50s?
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"Real" Mrs. Miniver Is Revealed
PW: What inspired you to write the biography of your grandmother, Jan Struther, The Real Mrs. Miniver?
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Horror (and Humor) in the Workplace
PW: The three stories in your new collection, My Work Is Not Yet Done, share the theme of the modern workplace as a breeding ground for horrors. What inspired them?
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Lessons of the Crash of 1929
PW: What prompted you to write Six Days in October?
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Investors Unite! You're Being Bilked
PW: What motivated you to write Take on the Street?
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O Magazine Editor's First Novel
PW: Your first novel, Carrying the Body, focuses on a number of difficult issues—caregiving, tangled family relationships and alcoholism—in a very short format. What moved you to explore such themes?
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Restoration Crime Romp
PW: You've written scholarly books on England's Restoration era. What brought you to write mysteries set at that time?
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The Power of Storytelling
PW: The Book of Illusions is your 10th novel, but you've written, edited or translated some 35 books including poetry, memoir, essays and screenplays. Is the novel your preferred mode of literary expression?
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Diary Tells of Life in Vilna Ghetto
PW: How was the project of translating and editing Herman Kruk's journals [The Last Days of the Jerusalem of Lithuania] initiated?
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Book Packager Illuminates Inner Space
PW: Tell us about Lionheart Books, the book packaging firm that created Inside the Mind of God.
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Bestseller Down Under
A seven-book series for young readers that creates a nationalsensation, winning literary prizes never before awarded to children's fiction, with new installments catapulting to the top of bestseller lists? No, not Harry Potter. It's the series that launched in author John Marsden's native Australia with Tomorrow, When the War Began (1994), about a group of teenagers who return from camping in the bush to discover that their country has been overtaken by a hostile nation. The final volume is The Other Side of Dawn (Houghton Mifflin).
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PW Talks with Val McDermid
PW: You've written two traditional private detective series, the Jordan/Hill series and two stand-alone thrillers. How do you decide which you're going to write?
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PW Talks with Chris Rice
PW: Why did you write Grace Matters?
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PW Talks with Karin Slaughter
PW: Your bio lists no medical or legal experience. How did you come to write the stories in Kisscut?
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PW Talks with Robert McCammon
PW: Speaks the Nightbird is your first novel in 10 years. Why the long silence?
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PW Talks with Peter Jennings and Todd Brewster
PW: How soon after The Century did you realize you wanted to collaborate again?
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PW Talks with Micol Negrin
PW: Your cookbook, Rustico, is so comprehensive. How long did it take you to write it?
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PW Talks with Martin Cruz Smith
PW: Was there a particular seed of germination that led to the writing of December 6?
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