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PW: James Alan McPherson: A Theater of Memory

by Calvin Reid | 12/15/1997 @ 07:00AM

The former janitor and dining-car waiter -- who emerged from the segregated South to earn a law degree from Harvard, a "genius" grant from the MacArthur foundation and the 1978 Pulitzer Prize for his short-story collection 'Elbow Room' -- is chatting with PW about his new memoir, 'Crabcakes' (Simon & Schuster).
PW: Judith Viorst: From the Skin to the Pith

by Tracy Cochran | 12/08/1997 @ 07:00AM

"Everything I have ever written about has been about what's going on inside of us," Viorst tells PW in her comfortable, white-columned Victorian home on a woodsy cul-de-sac in the Cleveland Park section of Washington, D.C.
PW: Sheila Weller: A Career In True Crime

by David Finkle | 12/01/1997 @ 07:00AM

PW Home Bestsellers Subscribe Search Interview Sheila Weller: A Career In True Crimeby David Finkle -- 12/1/97 Ultimately, you are an ambulance chaser," Sheila Weller says about writing true-crime books. She ought to know, since for a decade she's chased a succession of figurative (and lucrative) ambulances. Her most recent book, just out from Pocket, is Saint of Circumstance: The Untold Story Behind the Alex Kelly Rape Case: Growing Up Rich and Out of Control (PW Forecasts, Oct. ...
PW: George Plimpton: A Most American Boswell

by Jonathan Bing | 11/17/1997 @ 07:00AM

PW Home Bestsellers Subscribe Search Interview George Plimpton: A Most American Boswellby Jonathan Bing -- 11/17/97 George Plimpton, the protean journalist, editor and professional dilettante, towers over the galleys and audio cassettes amassed on his desk at the Paris Review and shouts amiably into the phone: "Anne, bring me a Python. One of the longer ones. ...
PW: Cecelia Holland: A Novelist Excavating the Past

by Susan Salter Reynolds | 11/10/1997 @ 07:00AM

The computer screen in Cecelia Holland's office on California's foggy northern coast in Humboldt county glows and blinks like a space-age lighthouse.
PW: Marcella Hazan: Educating America's Palate

by Dulcy Brainard | 11/03/1997 @ 07:00AM

To American cooks, she is simply Marcella.
PW: Will Self: An Enfant Terrible Comes of Age

by Anna Henchman | 09/08/1997 @ 06:00AM

Will Self strides into the Groucho Club, London's exclusive watering hole for people in the arts, hops on a barstool, orders two bagels with lox platters, a beer and a Bloody Mary with a double shot of vodka. At 6'5", everything about him seems extreme-an impression that he clearly enjoys projecting.
George R. R. Martin: Dreamer of Fantastic Worlds

By Michael Levy | 08/26/1996 @ 12:00AM

From the 'PW' Archives: In 1996, 'Publishers Weekly' talked to George R.R. Martin ahead of the release of 'A Game of Thrones,' which publisher Bantam said, "has the potential to be both a bestseller and an award winner."
PW Interviews Tom Clancy

By John Mutter | 08/08/1986 @ 09:00AM

From the PW archives, a 1986 profile of Tom Clancy just before the publication of Red Storm Rising.
Chances Are: PW Talks with Wendy Corsi Staub

| 11/03/1980 @ 12:00AM

The authors’s popular Lily Dale Mystery series, set in the titular town of psychics, continues with Prose and Cons (Sponsored)
An American First

| 07/18/1980 @ 12:00AM

Lori Marie Carlson-Hijuelos, wife of the late author Oscar Hijuelos, celebrates the upcoming reissues of Hijuelos’s fiction from Grand Central Publishing. (Sponsored)
Royal History Recovered: Spotlight on 'Charlotte Sophia: Myth, Madness and the Moor'

| 06/21/1980 @ 12:00AM

Recorded Books has released an audiobook edition of Tina Andrews’s Charlotte Sophia: Myth, Madness and the Moor, narrated by actress Adjoa Andoh. (Sponsored)

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