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BEA 2014: Short & Poehler Pick Up The Pen
Popular and pretty, short and sassy, two comedy stars make their author debuts.
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The Plants in Pants: PW Talks with Karen Abbott
In "Liar, Temptress, Soldier, Spy: Four Women Undercover in the Civil War," Abbott shares the stories of four daring women who defied their gender roles to support their respective sides.
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Stealth Writer: PW Talks with Mary Kubica
Kubica’s debut, "The Good Girl," charts 24-year-old Mia Dennett’s abduction and eventual reappearance, though she has no memory of what happened in between.
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Coming Full Circle: PW Talks with Pamela Moses
Moses’s debut novel, "The Appetites of Girls," explores the lives of four women through college and a decade beyond.
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BEA 2014: Dick Cavett Reveals His Brief Encounters
An Emmy Award winner and talk show host pioneer, Dick Cavett is back with his fourth book, Brief Encounters: Conversations, Magic Moments, and Assorted Hijinks (Random House, Nov.).
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LGBTQ Publishing: PW Talks with Sara Farizan
Sara Farizan burst onto the YA and LGBTQ scene with her debut novel "If You Could Be Mine" from Algonquin Young Readers in 2013.
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17th-Century Spy vs. Spy: PW Talks with Susanna Gregory
Gregory’s Restoration-era spy, Thomas Chaloner, combines detection with espionage in "Murder on High Holborn."
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It Takes a Graveyard to Raise a Child: PW Talks with P. Craig Russell
Neil Gaiman’s YA fantasy "The Graveyard Book" tells the story of a young child who is adopted by the spirits that occupy a nearby graveyard, following the grisly murder of his parents.
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From Songs to Tears: PW Talks with Barbara J. Taylor
A family legend inspired Taylor to shine a spotlight on her hometown of Scranton, Penn., in her debut novel, "Sing in the Morning, Cry at Night."
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Q & A with Valorie Fisher
Valorie FIsher's new book, "I Can Do It Myself," shows tiny toys tracing letters, setting the table, and making the bed, and pictures actual children mastering tasks like tying their shoes, using safety scissors, and pouring lemonade.
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PW Talks with Joseph McCormack: Business Management Books 2014
In "Brief: Make a Bigger Impact by Saying Less" (Wiley, Feb.), author Joseph McCormack provides strategies tailored to the current era of shrinking attention spans (from an average of 12 seconds in 2000 to an average of eight seconds in 2012), when half of all employees report that they cannot work longer than 15 minutes without getting distracted and that they are interrupted approximately every eight minutes.
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Darkness on Campus: PW Talks with Lori Rader-Day
In Rader-Day’s debut, "The Black Hour," a sociology professor at a university outside Chicago struggles with the effects of an inexplicable crime.
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Everybody Smuggles: PW Talks with Craig Davidson
"Cataract City" follows two friends on the Canadian side of Niagara Falls through childhood trauma and on to adult violence.
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The Art of Autopsy: PW Talks with Judy Melinek
Melinek was set to follow her father’s footsteps into the medical profession before she migrated to the world of forensic pathology.
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Q & A with Lauren Castillo
In Lauren Castillo's 'The Troublemaker,' a boy borrows his younger sister's cherished bunny for a game of pirates, then gets a taste of her distress when his own stuffed animal disappears.
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Q & A with Beth Fantaskey
In Beth Fantaskey's "Buzz Kill," a bright, offbeat student reporter tries to catch a murderer on the loose at her school, which leads to some outrageous moments – and even a sweet romance.
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Reds vs. Whites: PW Talks with Dan Smith
British author Smith evokes the horrors of the civil war after the Russian Revolution in "Red Winter."
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Close to Home: PW Talks with Sue Miller
Miller’s latest novel, "The Arsonist," takes place in a small New Hampshire town where a spate of summerhouse fires ratchets up the tension between locals and summer residents.
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Marine Meditations: PW Talks with James Nestor
In "Deep: Freediving, Renegade Science, and What the Ocean Tells Us About Ourselves," journalist Nestor, and a freediver himself, explores the practice of freediving and its application at the fringes of marine research.
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Our Most Opulent Nowhere: PW Talks with Laura McBride
Vegas is the setting for McBride’s debut novel, "We Are Called to Rise," a heartfelt chronicle of the lives of a handful of damaged people thrown together by tragic circumstances.
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