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Mary Karr: A Life Saved By Stories
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Murray Sperber: Jousting with The Knights
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Vinita Hampton Wright: A Life of Quiet Grace
PW Home Bestsellers Subscribe Search Interview Vinita
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Armistead Maupin: Tales Worth Talking About
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Campbell Armstrong: Making It Whole Again
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Frederick Reiken: Love and Loss in the Meadowlands
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Laurie Garrett: Coming Plague, Current Crisis
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PW: George Saunders: Oppressing the Comfortable
PW Home Bestsellers Subscribe Search Interview George Saunders: Oppressing the ComfortableDavid Bahr -- 8/14/00"I love America, but I'm suspicious of it:It's the fat kid with all the toys and needs to be looked at honestly." Upstate in Syracuse, N.Y., sitting in his cozy country-style kitchen, where colorful crayon scribblings and photos of grinning girls decorate his fridge, George Saunders recalls his first foray into juvenile gibberish. ...
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PW: George Packer: All in the Family
The moving boxes are everywhere. A Charlie Parker CD is playing in the background; it is a broiling summer afternoon; and George Packer, tanned and still boyish-looking at 39, is dressed in shorts, a polo shirt and Reeboks.
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PW: Hilary Spurling: No Stone Left Unturned
Along a dusty stretch of the Caledonian Road in north London, PW dodges traffic, trying to find the way to Matisse biographer Hilary Spurling's house.
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PW: J.R. Salamanca: Back on the Boards
PW Home Bestsellers Subscribe Search Interview J.R. Salamanca: Back on the BoardsJoseph Barbato -- 7/24/00"I'm very glad to have a book out--I wasn't sure I would ever do another one."' Early one morning two years ago, J.R. (Jack) Salamanca and his wife, Mimi, were sleeping in the bedroom of their suburban Maryland townhouse when a spark traveled from the basement fireplace--where a visitor had made a late-evening fire--and set the cedar-chip shingle roof ablaze. The couple fled outside to s
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PW: Jerry Spinelli: Homer on George Street
In 11th grade, Jerry Spinelli traded his baseball bat for a pencil. The two deciding factors: his dreams of being a shortstop for the major leagues were, in his words, "going down the drain," and his p m about his high school team's impossible victory, "Goal to Go," appeared in his hometown newspaper.
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PW: Molly Gloss: Of Women And Westerns
Nestled in a neighborhood of tree-lined streets and tidy bungalows, Molly Gloss's English cottage-style house is an appealing vision on this drizzly morning in Portland, Ore. Overhead, a scrim of gray clouds veils the sky, a darkly elegant foil to the vibrant green of a garden spilling from perennial beds to a lushly planted parking strip.
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Chinua Achebe: Views of Home From Afar
The volume of three essays from Oxford University Press seems so simple: 105 pages, not much these days when writers write long and editors don't have time to edit them down. Home and Exile by Chinua Achebe. So deceptively clear, like the clarity of morning light that cajoles you into thinking reality is right before your eyes. Achebe's text makes you blink and look again.
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PW: Meeting with An Explorer: Tim Severin
It is a sunny Saturday in Ireland and PW has arranged to meet Tim Severin in a lively Cork City cafe.
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PW: La Maison de Mes Dents: David Sedaris
PW Home Bestsellers Subscribe Search Interview La Maison de Mes Dents: David SedarisKathie Bergquist -- 6/19/00"My writing is just a desperate attempt to get laughs.If you get anything else out of it, it's an accident." After recently discovering that he had a rare gum disease, David Sedaris asked his dentist if he should quit smoking. Her response: "Don't be so drastic." That attitude, he says, is why he lives in France. ...
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PW: Tony Early, the Writer Boy
Tony Earley is hardly a country bumpkin, despite his small town Southern background and the homespun appeal of his plainly styled first novel, Jim the Boy.
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PW: Anchee Min: After the Revolution
Anchee Min is an expert at reinvention.
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PW: Ram Dass: The Survival of the Soul
"My guru told me 'Be like Gandhi,'" Ram Dass tells PW. "Gandhi said, 'My life is my message.'"
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