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Give Them Something to Talk About: PW Talks with Jonah Berger
In Contagious: Why Things Catch On, Wharton marketing professor Jonah Berger examines the irresistible spread of ideas and products.
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In a Polish Kitchen: PW Talks with Anne Applebaum and Danielle Crittenden
In their first cookbook, From a Polish Country House Kitchen, friends and journalists Anne Applebaum and Danielle Crittenden give readers a taste of the Polish countryside.
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From Flappers to Pharaoh: PW Talks with Kerry Greenwood
Australian author Kerry Greenwood, best known for her Phyrne Fisher series set in the 1920s, moves to ancient Egypt for Out of the Black Land.
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Minding the Gaps: PW Talks with Margaret Wrinkle
In her debut novel, Wash, award-winning documentarian and visual artist Margaret Wrinkle uses a fictional lens to see into the lives of a 19th-century slave named Wash and Gen. James Richardson, the Tennessee empire builder who decides to breed him.
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Looking Behind the Curtain: PW Talks With Helaine Olen: Personal Finance 2012
When Helaine Olen was first hired to write about personal finance for the Los Angeles Times in 1996, she was certain she’d be called out as an imposter.
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Ghosts in the Attic: PW Talks with Wendy Webb
Wendy Webb believes in ghosts. By the time readers finish her new haunting novel, The Fate of Mercy Alban, they will too.
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Wild and Woolly: PW Talks with Marlene Zuk
In Paleofantasy: What Evolution Really Tells Us About Sex, Diet, and How We Live, University of Minnesota biology professor Marlene Zuk takes on the pseudoscience
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Hello, Cruel World: PW Talks with Robert Jackson Bennett
In American Elsewhere, Robert Jackson Bennett’s fourth novel exploring the fantastical side of 20th-century America, aliens living in a small town struggle to perfect the appearance of human normalcy.
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Smith's Brothers: PW Talks with Lachlan Smith
Lachlan Smith’s thriller debut, Bear Is Broken, opens with Leo Maxwell, a new lawyer, witnessing the shooting of his older brother, an established lawyer.
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The New Normal: PW Talks with Herman Koch
Dutch author Herman Koch’s novel, The Dinner, is a psychological thriller about a five-course restaurant meal that goes terribly awry; the narrative constantly forces the reader to revise his or her understanding of what is actually happening.
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Q & A with Gary Paulsen and Jim Paulsen
Disgruntled teenager Ben and his impulsive father set out to rescue an abandoned border collie in Road Trip, three-time Newbery Honor author Gary Paulsen's first collaboration with his sculptor son, Jim.
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Thinking Like Holmes in the Age of Google: PW Talks with Maria Konnikova
In Mastermind, psychologist Maria Konnikova reveals how anyone can strengthen his or her thinking by adopting some of Sherlock Holmes’s best practices.
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De Luce Sleuth: PW Talks with Alan Bradley
In Alan Bradley’s fourth mystery set in early 1950s England, Speaking from Among the Bones, 11-year-old Flavia de Luce once again plays detective.
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A Lesson in Empathy: PW Talks with Priscille Sibley
Registered nurse Priscille Sibley dissects the complicated ethics of two divisive arguments—the right-to-die and a woman’s right to choose—in her heartrending debut novel, The Promise of Stardust.
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My Brilliant Friend: PW Talks with Elena Ferrante
In a rare interview, Italian author Elena Ferrante talks about My Brilliant Friend, the first in a trilogy that takes main characters and best friends Lila and Elena from childhood to old age.
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Q & A with Karen Cushman
The author of the Newbery Award-winning The Midwife's Apprentice and seven other acclaimed novels of historical fiction, Karen Cushman has proven adept at bringing other eras to life.
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Remembering the Kennedys: PW Talks with Kitty Kelley
Known for her bestselling investigative biographies, Kitty Kelley takes a new direction in Capturing Camelot: Stanley Tretick’s Iconic Images of the Kennedys, which features more than 200 photos from Tretick, a close friend of Kelley’s who, upon his death in 1999, left her a treasure trove of memorabilia from his days covering the Kennedy White House.
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Bad Timing: PW Talks with Aria Beth Sloss
In Autobiography of Us, debut novelist Aria Beth Sloss explores women’s coming of age before the sexual revolution and the secrecy and silence that governed both sexes at the time.
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An Important American Story: PW Talks with Ayana Mathis
Ayana Mathis’s elegant, sure-footed debut, The Twelve Tribes of Hattie, traces a woman’s life through the eyes of her many children.
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