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Spring 2011 Flying Starts: Thanhha Lai
When Thanhha (pronounced TANG-Ha) Lai decided to fictionalize the story of her own early life in Vietnam and immigration to Alabama after the war, she wrote her novel Inside Out & Back Again (HarperCollins) in six months. "It was shockingly easy to write," she recalls. "Because it is my story and I'd already been processing it for years and years."
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The Spy Behind the Curtain: PW Talks with Matthew Dunn
Matthew Dunn's debut, Spycatcher, introduces tough, resourceful MI6 agent Will Cochrane.
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Q & A with Jessica Morgan and Heather Cocks
Jessica Morgan and Heather Cocks, authors of the fun and funny fashion blog Go Fug Yourself, are newly minted YA authors with their just-published first novel, Spoiled.
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'American Psycho' at 20: Catching Up with Bret Easton Ellis
Despite a rapidly changing cultural landscape, American Psycho continues to be relevant—it was published by Vintage in e-book format last June and is currently being developed into a Broadway play.
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Crossing Borders: PW Talks with Sebastian Rotella
Journalist Sebastian Rotella makes his fiction debut with Triple Crossing, a thriller that examines corruption in Latin America.
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Q & A with Tomi Ungerer
Tomi Ungerer's name is instantly recognizable to those who grew up reading his books in the 1960s and '70s. But Ungerer's catalog was allowed to go out of print when his outspoken political views and ribald erotic drawings alarmed U.S. publishers.
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Methtown, U.S.A.: PW Talks with Frank Bill
Frank Bill works in a paint factory and writes the grittiest, grizzliest rural noir this side of Knockemstiff. His debut collection, Crimes in Southern Indiana, is a bruising odyssey into the dark heart of the heartland.
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Home Again, Home Again: PW Talks with Elizabeth Thomson
Originally published in the mid 1980s, Robert Shelton’s No Direction Home, a portrait of the Bob Dylan’s career through the late ‘70s, was met with wide acclaim (and, to be fair, some derision). Shelton’s immersive portrait was an exemplary take on what an artist’s biography could be.
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To Live and Die in Mexico: PW Talks with John Gibler
Gibler, a San Francisco-based journalist, reports from the front lines of the drug war in To Die in Mexico. He risked his own life to bring readers the stories of communities struggling to survive in a land terrorized by violence and where the authorities are complicit in—and profiting from—the chaos.
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Abbott and Cloak-and-Dagger: PW Talks with Jeff Abbott
Jeff Abbott's thriller Adrenaline, the first in a series, introduces Sam Capra: former CIA agent, husband, and soon-to-be father.
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Shakespeare's More Prosaic Elder Brother: PW Talks with Rory Clements
John Shakespeare once again serves Sir Francis Walsingham, Elizabeth I's spymaster, in Rory Clements's second historical thriller, Revenger: A Novel of Tudor Intrigue.
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For Shame: PW Talks with Wayne Koestenbaum
The poet and critic investigates shame—in the body and body politic—in Humiliation.
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Q & A with Anthea Bell
Anthea Bell is a translator who has won many top awards, and whose work has appeared on many bestseller list, yet many outside of the publishing industry don’t know her name.
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A Formidable Female Detective: PW Talks with Lynda La Plante
An imprisoned serial killer helps London Det. Insp. Anna Travis track a serial killer on the loose in Lynda La Plante's Blind Fury.
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The Thrill of the Hack: PW Talks with Kevin Mitnick
In Ghost in the Wires, legendary computer hacker Kevin Mitnick recalls life on the lam for the crime of purloining source code.
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Q & A with Elise Broach
Elise Broach follows her E.B. White Read Aloud winner, Masterpiece, with another kid-pleasing mystery, Missing on Superstition Mountain, the first in a trilogy set in the American southwest.
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She prays for strangers: PW Talks with River Jordan
River Jordan didn't mean to write her latest book. She only meant to keep one simple New Year's resolution.
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Finding God In Cyberspace: PW Talks with Adam Thomas
In his first book, Adam Thomas asks, can God be found in computer games? On Facebook? Is God with us when we tweet? Is God, Thomas wants to know, online?
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Speaking for herself: PW Talks to Maria Ebrahimji
As a producer at CNN, Maria Ebrahimji is familiar with the spotlight—she's just not used to being in it. Although her childhood ambition was to be a news anchor, she realized early on that she was naturally drawn deeper into the story. "I believe that the power and value of journalism is really in producing," Maria says. "I'm very much one of those people that likes to work behind the scenes."
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The Poetry of Maps: PW Talks with Ken Jennings
In Maphead, Jeopardy! champ Ken Jennings surveys the world of the geography obsessed.
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