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Interview with Jim Lynch

If Carl Hiaasen set one of his novels on a residential stretch of boundary line between British Columbia and Washington, or if Richard Russo's characters had relatives in the Pacific Northwest, the...

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Interview with Luis Alberto Urrea

Luis Alberto Urrea is a poet, novelist, journalist, and essayist who has been writing about the relationship between the United States and Mexico, amongst other things, for 30 years. His 2004...

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Interview with Matthew Crawford

The New York Times calls Shop Class as Soulcraft "a beautiful little book about human excellence and the way it is undervalued in contemporary America." Kyle here at Powell's calls it "an accessible,...

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Interview with Karen Solomon

We've been swooning over Karen Solomon's Jam It, Pickle It, Cure It: And Other Cooking Projects since it arrived on our shelves a couple months ago. The book is plump with dozens of creative kitchen...

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Interview with David Small

Winner of a Caldecott Medal, a Newbery Medal, and two Christopher Awards, David Small is one of the most acclaimed graphic artists in his field. After illustrating more than forty books for children,...

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Interview with Tracy Kidder

Kidder's incredibly moving and vivid new book, Strength in What Remains, follows and accompanies Deo, survivor of the genocide in Burundi who came to America in the '90s to make a new life for...

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Interview with Chelsea Cain

Chelsea Cain's debut novel, Heartsick, was a New York Times bestseller that garnered enthusiastic praise from...basically everyone. Stephen King placed the thriller on his ten best books of 2008 list,...

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Interview with David Sibley

In his new work, which was eight years in the making, David Sibley focuses his authoritative eye on trees. Gorgeously illustrated and full of fascinating information, The Sibley Guide to Trees will...

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Interview with Margaret Atwood

The Year of the Flood masterfully depicts a very different side of the dystopia Margaret Atwood first wrote about in Oryx and Crake. In a starred review, Booklist raves, "Atwood's mischievous,...

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Interview with Sam Savage

The Cry of the Sloth, Savage's second novel, is the story of Andrew Whittaker, a slumlord, writer, editor of the barely-surviving literary magazine Soap, and ex-husband, told entirely through...

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Interview with Donald Miller

When Donald Miller agreed to adapt his bestselling Christian memoir Blue Like Jazz into a feature film, he discovered that even the life of a bestselling author is...pretty boring. This revelation...

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Interview with Julie Powell

Julie Powell charmed readers with Julie and Julia, in which she chronicled her quest to cook, in one year, every recipe out of Julia Child's Mastering the Art of French Cooking. After its huge success...

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Interview with Eoin Colfer

Best known for his bestselling Artemis Fowl series, Eoin Colfer was selected by the estate of the late Douglas Adams to write And Another Thing..., the sixth and final volume in the beloved...

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Interview with Paul Jenner

Lost Lore is a dream for anyone interested in practicing nostalgia. Drawing on superstition, folklore, ancient texts, and maybe even an anecdote from your great-grandmother, it's an eclectic...

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Interview with Joshua Ferris (2010)

Joshua Ferris's new novel, The Unnamed, is a very different (and much darker) book than his acclaimed debut, Then We Came to the End, but his clarity of voice, urgency of purpose, fascinating...

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