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  • PW Talks with Roger Ebert

    PW spoke with film critic Roger Ebert from his Hollywood hotel about his new book, The Great Movies.

  • PW Talks with Susan Wiggs

    PW: Passing Through Paradise is only your second contemporary novel in a career built on historical romances. What drew you to this new area?

  • PW Talks with Ruth Rendell

    PW: In Adam and Eve and Pinch Me, and in other novels like Going Wrong, you write about characters with obsessions. Does obsession have any parallel to a writer's drive to write?

  • PW Talks with Merrill Markoe

    PW: Why didn't you name your main character, a very funny single art teacher living in L.A.?

  • PW Talks with Jacob Needleman

    PW: Your latest work, The American Soul: Rediscovering the Wisdom of the Founders, offers readers a provocative new way to think about American ideals and about what it could mean to be an American. You describe how democratic principles that most people take to be purely political can also be interpreted as intensely personal, spiritual values. What was your inspiration?

  • PW Talks with Steven Barnes

    PW: What inspired you to write Lion's Blood, an alternate history novel that focuses on race relations, Muslim vs. Christian ethics, friendship and freedom?

  • PW Talks with Blake Eskin

    PW: Your book A Life in Pieces is a wonderful mixture of personal memoir, historical investigation and cultural criticism. Was this your original plan? In fact, you didn't even know if Binjamin Wilkomirski, author of the putative Holocaust memoir Fragments, would cooperate with you when you began this project.

  • Fall 2001 Flying Starts

    Six first-time children's authors and illustrators talk about their fall debuts

  • PW Talks with E.O. Wilson

    PW: Is this book, The Future of Life, your manifesto?

  • PW Talks with Francesca Fremantle

    PW: Yet another version of The Tibetan Book of the Dead is scheduled for publication. Why do you think The Tibetan Book of Dead first enjoyed such success in America in the 1970s, and why has it continued to do so?

  • PW Talks with Yehuda Nir

    PW: The original edition of The Lost Childhood was published in 1989 and was written for adults. What prompted you to revisit it now?

  • PW Talks with Chad Lowe

    Lowe, the Emmy Award—winning actor who has starred in the television series Life Goes On, E.R. and Law & Order, is the reader for the audio version of Peace Like a River. PW spoke with him in the green room of HarperAudio's recording studios in Manhattan.

  • PW Talks with Caitlín Kieran

    PW: You've recently published Wrong Things, a short fiction collection co-written with Poppy Z. Brite, and From Weird and Distant Shores, a collection of your contributions to shared-world anthologies. Do you find it hard using your distinctive personal style to elaborate worlds and characters created by other writers?

  • PW Talks with Jim Cymbala

    PW: Tell us how the members of your congregation, the Brooklyn Tabernacle, were affected by the attack on the World Trade Center.

  • PW Talks with Robert Anasi

    PW: Was it a main goal in your book The Gloves to show boxing's beauty and subtlety in addition to its more brutal side?

  • PW Talks with Mike Stewart

    PW: This is your third mystery novel. How long have you been writing?

  • PW Talks with James Sallis

    PW: Okay, why write "The End" to your most popular character, as you've done in Ghost of a Flea?

  • PW Talks with Erin Brockovich

    After winning a $333-million court case against Pacific Gas & Electric, having her story made into a movie and seeing the actress who portrayed her win an Academy Award, what could be next? A book, of course. Brockovich spoke with PW from her California home about her book, Take It from Me: Life's a Struggle But You Can Win.

  • PW Talks with Carl Hiaasen

    PW: What made you decide to adopt a first-person narrative with Basket Case?

  • PW Talks with Michael Korda and Alan Kahn

    PW met with Michael Korda, author of Making the List and editor-in-chief of Simon & Schuster, and Alan Kahn, COO of Barnes & Noble Inc., publisher of Making the List, in Korda's office in the S&S building in midtown Manhattan.

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