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  • PW Talks with Joe R. Lansdale

    PW: Captains Outrageous marks the sixth Hap and Leonard adventure. Is this the last?

  • PW Talks with Don D'Auria

    PW: What prompted Leisure to start publishing horror fiction in hardcover?

  • PW Talks to Laura Lippman

    The murder of a high school teacher was the real-life inspiration for Laura Lippman's new novel.

  • Going Solo: PW Talks with Peter Straub

    PW met with Peter Straub, coauthor with Stephen King of Black House, sequel to the 1984 bestseller The Talisman, in Straub's townhouse on Manhattan's Upper West Side. Well scrubbed and clean-cut in pressed shirt and slacks, Straub looks more like a banker on holiday than anyone's likely image of a winner of numerous Bram Stoker and World Fantasy awards.

  • PW Talks with Studs Terkel

    PW: Will the Circle Be Unbroken? is about death and mortality. Because of that, was it harder to do than your other oral histories?

  • PW Talks with Philip Yancey

    PW: Soul Survivor is about cultivating an authentic Christian spirituality, almost in spite of the church. Why this book, and why write it now?

  • PW Talks with P.J. O'Rourke

    Sure he coos, "Are you the cutest thing on earth or what?" to his one-year-old. Yes, he can hold forth intelligently on the virtues of Disney's Tarzan. And seeing him carry a basket of toys from F.A.O. Schwarz does seem a little like watching Colin Powell play with Pokémon cards. But P.J. O'Rourke's newest book doesn't show his softer side.

  • PW Talks to John Martel

    PW: In the acknowledgments of Billy Strobe, you thank someone for getting you deep inside Soledad prison and getting you out. Did you do some undercover investigation there?

  • PW Talks with Jim Fusilli

    PW: This is your first novel. What was the inspiration?

  • PW talks with Jill Fredston

    PW: Between working as an avalanche researcher and rescue trainer and rowing the Arctic three months of the year, when did you find the time to write Rowing to Latitude?

  • PW Talks with Patricia McKissack

    PW: The events in your new picture book, Goin' Someplace Special, are taken from your childhood in Nashville during the racially segregated '50s. What prompted you to revisit this particular time in your life?

  • PW Talks with Maureen F. McHugh

    PW: Your new novel, Nekropolis, is set in a future Morocco where the poor live in mausoleums. Is the Nekropolis a symbol for their lives and relationships?

  • PW Talks with Salman Rushdie

    PW: Your depiction of contemporary Manhattan in Fury has caught all the hallmarks of the frenetic New York scene. Has this always been your impression of this portion of America, or did it grow on you once you settled here?

  • PW Talks with Lily Burana

    PW: In writing Strip City, were you nervous about the response to such a sexplicit memoir?

  • PW Talks with Ilan Stavans

    PW: As your memoir On Borrowed Words makes clear, you are Mexican and Jewish, living in America. How do you reconcile your various identities, and how do they affect your writing?

  • PW Talks with Claudia Fleming

    PW: You've been executive pastry chef at New York City's Gramercy Tavern since it opened in 1994. Why did you wait seven years to write The Last Course?

  • PW Talks with Marcia Talley

    PW: Naked Came the Manatee, a serial novel featuring 13 mystery writers with Florida roots, came out in 1996. Any connection with your new collaboration, Naked Came the Phoenix, besides the obvious one of title?

  • PW Talks with Whitley Strieber

    PW: The Last Vampire is your first novel in nearly a decade. Why have you returned to fiction?

  • PW Talks with Marcia Muller

    PW: After 21 Sharon McCones, three Joanna Starks and three Elena Oliverezes, the last Oliverez written with your husband, Bill Pronzini, what made you decide to develop a new character?

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