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Inside Jim and Tammy Faye Bakker's Fall: PW Talks with John Wigger
In 'PTL: The Rise and Fall of Jim and Tammy Faye Bakker’s Evangelical Empire,' Wigger explores how a warm and cozy talk show grew into a media behemoth, which then collapsed into scandal and sin.
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Only the Best Stories: PW Talks with Bruce Campbell
With 'Hail to the Chin: Further Confessions of a B Movie Actor,' Campbell, star of the cult Evil Dead movies, recounts more wild tales from his life and career.
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Totalitarian Noir, It Happened Here: PW Talks with Thomas Mullen
In 'Lightning Men,' Mullen uses a hard-boiled crime novel to explore post-WWII racism in the South.
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Q & A with William Ritter
William Ritter spoke with PW about the inspiration for his series about an eccentric paranormal detective named Jackaby and his clever assistant, Abigail Rook.
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Q & A with Ellen Oh
Author and WNDB co-founder Ellen Oh spoke with PW on writing horror for a younger audience.
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Jason Reynolds Is the Hardest-Working Man in Washington
With three new books coming out this fall, the prolific author continues to exceed his limits.
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The Death of One Man Is a Tragedy: PW Talks with Deon Meyer
The South African author combines a whodunit with a chillingly plausible end-of-the-world scenario in 'Fever' (Atlantic Monthly, Sept.).
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The Year that Created Modernism: PW Talks with Bill Goldstein
In 'The World Broke in Two: Virginia Woolf, T.S. Eliot, D.H. Lawrence, E.M. Forster, and the Year that Changed Literature' (Holt, Aug.), a close examination of four literary lives.
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Q & A with Mark Teague
Teague spoke with PW about adapting classic stories, incorporating humor into his books, and the essential elements of a good read-aloud.
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The Eternal Town Square: PW Talks with Gabrielle Zevin
In 'Young Jane Young' (Algonquin, Aug.), a politically ambitious intern has an affair with the married congressman she works for. It becomes a national scandal that derails her life, but, tellingly, not his.
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Four Questions for...James Patterson
James Patterson is publishing a controversial, dystopian novel about an America trapped in the clutches of a monopolistic online retailer called The Store.
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Q & A with Jennifer L. Holm and Matthew Holm
The collaborating siblings spoke with PW about their new Babymouse endeavor and other projects.
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Q & A with Erin McCahan
PW spoke with Erin McCahan about her new novel for young readers, 'The Lake Effect.'
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Q & A with Julie Buxbaum
Julie Buxbaum spoke with PW about her new YA novel ,'What to Say Next.'
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Stopping Suicides: PW Talks with Lee Daniel Kravetz
In 'Strange Contagion' (Harper Wave, June), Kravetz researches the how and why behind a series of suicides of high school students in Palo Alto, Calif.
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Murder in East Germany: PW Talks with David Young
With 'The Stasi Child' (Minotaur, Aug.), Young launches a mystery series set in 1970s East Germany.
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Q & A with Mackenzi Lee
PW spoke with Mackenzi Lee about her upcoming YA novel 'The Gentleman’s Guide to Vice and Virtue.'
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The View from Abroad: PW Talks with Suzy Hansen
Hansen, an American journalist living in Istanbul, grapples with a new understanding of her homeland and its place in the world in 'Notes on a Foreign Country' (Farrar, Straus and Giroux, Aug.).
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Savoring Life in the Slow Lane: PW Talks with Margaret Maron
The ninth and final novel featuring New York detective Sigrid Harald from MWA Grand Master Maron, 'Take Out' (Grand Central), releases this June...and may be Maron's last novel ever.
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Four Questions for Sarah Dessen
Dessen spoke with PW about her new novel and what inspires her to keep writing for teens after more than 20 years.