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June 07, 2017

Q&A: Two Sisters, a New Bookstore, and a Feminist Take on Romance Novels

June 07, 2017/ Adam Cohen
Q&A: Two Sisters, a New Bookstore, and a Feminist Take on Romance Novels

A Younger, Hipper Approach to Selling 'Bodice Rippers'

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June 07, 2017/ Adam Cohen/ Comment
Q & A
Romance Literature, Genre Fiction, Bookstores
June 02, 2017

Q&A: A Mother Takes on Her Son's "Impossible" Disease -- and Wins

June 02, 2017/ Adam Cohen
Q&A: A Mother Takes on Her Son's "Impossible" Disease -- and Wins

"We felt we didn't have a choice not to share the information with other parents."

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June 02, 2017/ Adam Cohen/ Comment
Q & A
Disease, Parenthood
May 24, 2017

Q&A: How Did We End Up with this Far-Right Supreme Court?

May 24, 2017/ Adam Cohen
Q&A: How Did We End Up with this Far-Right Supreme Court?

Historian Laura Kalman Traces it All Back to Richard Nixon

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May 24, 2017/ Adam Cohen/ Comment
Q & A
Supreme Court, Conservatism, Law, Right-Wing Politics, Richard Nixon
May 12, 2017

Q&A: Delving into the Life of the Inscrutable Jazz Legend Bix Beiderbecke

May 12, 2017/ Adam Cohen
Q&A: Delving into the Life of the Inscrutable Jazz Legend Bix Beiderbecke

A Jazz Pioneer Who Was, Surprisingly, the Pride of Davenport, Iowa

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May 12, 2017/ Adam Cohen/ 1 Comment
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Jazz, Bix Beiderbecke, Iowa, Music
April 26, 2017

Q&A: Abigail Pogrebin Talks About Her Year of Living Jewishly -- Very Jewishly

April 26, 2017/ Adam Cohen
Q&A: Abigail Pogrebin Talks About Her Year of Living Jewishly -- Very Jewishly

And Why We All Need to Just Slow Down

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April 26, 2017/ Adam Cohen/ Comment
Q & A
Judaism, Religion, How-To, Holidays
April 21, 2017

Q&A: Chicago Law Professor Geoffrey Stone Talks About "Sex and the Constitution"

April 21, 2017/ Adam Cohen
Q&A: Chicago Law Professor Geoffrey Stone Talks About "Sex and the Constitution"

Legal Battles Over Sex Are Often Really Battles Over Religion

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April 21, 2017/ Adam Cohen/ Comment
Q & A
Constitution, Sex, Law
April 18, 2017

Q&A: Margot Singer on Novel-Writing, Terrorism, and Crosscultural Understanding

April 18, 2017/ Adam Cohen
Q&A: Margot Singer on Novel-Writing, Terrorism, and Crosscultural Understanding

And Her Novel About Visiting London During the July 7, 2005 Terrorist Bombings

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April 18, 2017/ Adam Cohen/ Comment
Q & A
Novel Writing, Terrorism, Anti-Semitism, Teaching Writing
April 07, 2017

Q&A: Brunonia Barry on her Modern Witch’s Tale, ‘The Fifth Petal,’ and Salem’s Past and Present

April 07, 2017/ Adam Cohen
Q&A: Brunonia Barry on her Modern Witch’s Tale, ‘The Fifth Petal,’ and Salem’s Past and Present

An Author Who Jumped From Self-Publishing to the New York Times Best Sellers List

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April 07, 2017/ Adam Cohen/ Comment
Q & A
Witchcraft, Salem, Self-Publishing
March 29, 2017

Q&A: Shining a New Light on Underappreciated Women Artists

March 29, 2017/ Adam Cohen
Q&A: Shining a New Light on Underappreciated Women Artists

A Literary Critic Returns to Her Early Fascination with the Visual Arts

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March 29, 2017/ Adam Cohen/ Comment
Q & A
Women Artists, Fine Arts, Visual Arts
March 15, 2017

Q&A: Penguin Classics Chooses 6 Timeless Works of Science Fiction and Fantasy

March 15, 2017/ Adam Cohen
Q&A: Penguin Classics Chooses 6 Timeless Works of Science Fiction and Fantasy

Books from Arthur C. Clarke, Ursula K. Le Guin, T.H. White, and More

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March 15, 2017/ Adam Cohen/ Comment
Q & A
Science Fiction, Fantasy, Neil Gaiman, The Literary Canon
February 17, 2017

Q&A: Beyond Cather and Bellow: A Smart Guide to the Fiction of the New American Midwest

February 17, 2017/ Adam Cohen
Q&A: Beyond Cather and Bellow: A Smart Guide to the Fiction of the New American Midwest

It's Not Just About Prairies and Farms and Smokestacks and Skyscrapers Anymore

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February 17, 2017/ Adam Cohen/ Comment
Q & A
Midwest, Fiction, Regionalism, Rural America
February 14, 2017

Q&A: Why 'Casablanca,' the Greatest of Bittersweet Romances, Endures After 75 Years

February 14, 2017/ Adam Cohen
Q&A: Why 'Casablanca,' the Greatest of Bittersweet Romances, Endures After 75 Years

Idealists, Cynics, Nazis, Collaborators -- and, of Course, Bogart and Bergman

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February 14, 2017/ Adam Cohen/ Comment
Q & A
Casablanca, Movies, Hollywood
February 08, 2017

Q&A: Min Jin Lee Talks Korea, Family, and Why Writing About Sex is Difficult

February 08, 2017/ Adam Cohen
Q&A: Min Jin Lee Talks Korea, Family, and Why Writing About Sex is Difficult

And a Preview of the Novel She's Working on Next

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February 08, 2017/ Adam Cohen/ Comment
Q & A
Korean Literature, Immigration
February 02, 2017

Q&A: A Young Man's Wry Memoir of Living With a Rare Illness: Gigantism

February 02, 2017/ Adam Cohen
Q&A: A Young Man's Wry Memoir of Living With a Rare Illness: Gigantism

Mike Scalise Manages to See the Humor in a Series of Terrible Medical Setbacks

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February 02, 2017/ Adam Cohen/ Comment
Q & A
Illiness, Gigantism, Memoir, Masculinity
January 25, 2017

Q&A: Top Writers On the Last Taboo -- How they Make a Living (or Try to)

January 25, 2017/ Adam Cohen
Q&A: Top Writers On the Last Taboo -- How they Make a Living (or Try to)

The Unromantic Reality: Being a Writer is Running Your Own Business

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January 25, 2017/ Adam Cohen/ Comment
Q & A
Craft of Writing, Freelancing, Publishing
December 16, 2016

Q&A: Linda Fairstein, Legendary Sex Crimes Prosecutor, Talks About Writing Mysteries

December 16, 2016/ Adam Cohen

Following, Very Intentionally, in the Path of Nancy Drew

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December 16, 2016/ Adam Cohen/ Comment
Q & A
Linda Fairstein, Mysteries, Craft of Writing, Children's Literature
December 09, 2016

Q&A: A Casual Chat With "My All-Time Favorite" (Now Repentant) "Bank Robber"

December 09, 2016/ Adam Cohen
Q&A: A Casual Chat With "My All-Time Favorite" (Now Repentant) "Bank Robber"

"Bondage is bondage, sister. Marriages on the brink are their own kind of solitary confinement

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December 09, 2016/ Adam Cohen/ Comment
Q & A
Crime, Bank Robbery, Prisons
November 23, 2016

Q&A: Floyd Skloot Talks About Imagining the Life of Thomas Hardy

November 23, 2016/ Adam Cohen
Q&A: Floyd Skloot Talks About Imagining the Life of Thomas Hardy

And Making Himself a Character in a Fictional Memoir of the Great Writer

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November 23, 2016/ Adam Cohen/ 1 Comment
Q & A
Thomas Hardy, Memoir, English Literature, Fiction
November 18, 2016

Q&A: The Reporter Who (May Have) Unmasked Elena Ferrante: "I Have No Regrets"

November 18, 2016/ Adam Cohen
Q&A: The Reporter Who (May Have) Unmasked Elena Ferrante: "I Have No Regrets"

"I am an investigative journalist and part of my job is to expose lies"

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November 18, 2016/ Adam Cohen/ Comment
Q & A
Elena Ferrante, Claudio Gatti, Italian Literature
October 21, 2016

Q&A: Robert Hicks on His Novel About a Murder in the Reconstruction-Era South

October 21, 2016/ Adam Cohen
Q&A: Robert Hicks on His Novel About a Murder in the Reconstruction-Era South

A Freed Slave and Midwife Vows to Hunt Down Her Son's Killer

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October 21, 2016/ Adam Cohen/ Comment
Q & A
Southern Literature, Civil War, Reconstruction, Tennessee, African-American Literature
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