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Spring 1999 Flying Starts

| 06/28/1999 @ 12:00AM

Five first-time children's authors and illustrators talk about their spring debuts.
David Foster Wallace: In the Company of Creeps

by Lorin Stein | 05/03/1999 @ 06:00AM

Sunday evening in Normal, Ill., David Foster Wallace and PW are lost somewhere near the Lingerie department of the local K mart, on the lookout for audiocassettes.
Albert Murray: Conditioned to Deal with the Blues

by Calvin Reid | 02/26/1996 @ 12:00AM

Random House is publishing a bumper crop of new and backlist works by novelist and critic Albert Murray, Harlem's pre-eminent man of letters.
An Irish National Treasure: PW Talks With Maeve Binchy

By Katharine Weber | 10/26/1992 @ 12:00AM

Maeve Binchy is a beguiling and irrepressible storyteller. Her focus is acute and her smile is genuine. Conversation is an enthusiastic, generous flow of anecdotes and observations, punctuated by quips, queries and conspiratorial asides. Not only is Binchy one to suffer fools gladly -- she would do so graciously.
When People Really Got Dumb: PW Talks with Gore Vidal

By William Goldstein | 07/13/1990 @ 12:00AM

"Talking about books is the last thing I would think to do in real life," Gore Vidal announces near the end of a visit with PW at New York's Plaza Hotel, though he has already offered his opinions about books – his own, including his novel Lincoln (Random House), and others. "That's one of the reasons I don't see many writers," he adds. "They bore me."
The Making of Amy Tan's The Joy Luck Club

By Gayle Feldman | 07/07/1989 @ 12:00AM

In a look back at a classic issue of PW, we offer the story of the making of Amy Tan's classic The Joy Luck Club from our July 7, 1989 issue: In Chinese, you don't tell a story, you say it. Recently, 36-year-old Chinese-American Amy Tan said a story to a group of listeners about how she came to chronicle the mothers and daughters of The Joy Luck Club, published by Putnam on March 22.
PW Interviews Alice Munro

By Beverley Slopen | 08/22/1986 @ 10:00AM

From the PW archives, a 1986 profile of Alice Munro, upon the publication of her story collection The Progress of Love.
Giving an Old Book New Life: Netflix Film Spurs Sales of Jimmy Hoffa Story

| 00/00/0000 @ 12:00AM

Author Charles Brandt’s classic mafia tell-all, I Heard You Paint Houses, has been adapted by Netflix as The Irishman, generating buzz and new readers for the Steerforth Press title. (Sponsored)

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