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A Juggler in a Dreadful Circus: PW Talks with Josh Malerman
In "Bird Box," Malerman, a musician, offers a subtle, if chilling, look at a postapocalyptic America.
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Constructing Culture: PW Talks with Mark Miodownik
Miodownik, director of the Institute of Making at the University College London, examines 10 everyday substances in "Stuff Matters: Exploring the Marvelous Materials that Shape Our Man-Made World," his introduction to the discipline of materials science.
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Never Trust the Artist: PW Talks with Christopher J. Yates
A psychological competition between friends at Oxford University turns tragic in Yates’s twisty debut, "Black Chalk."
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A Forgotten Rose: PW Talks With Andrea di Robilant
In "Chasing the Rose: An Adventure in the Venetian Countryside," di Robilant is determined to pursue the mystery of a rose grown by his great-great-great-great grandmother (a contemporary of Josephine Bonaparte) that he discovered growing wild on the family estate.
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Q & A with Tedd Arnold
Author Tedd Arnold gives his creatons Buzz and Fly Guy their first picture book outing with "A Pet for Fly Guy."
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Family Politics: PW Talks With Mona Simpson
In "Casebook," Simpson’s latest novel, adolescent Miles Adler-Hart watches his newly divorced mathematician mother, Irene, fall in love with a man named Eli Lee.
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Man in the Middle: PW Talks with Kai Bird
Bird reached back to his childhood in Saudi Arabia to examine the life of his then-neighbor, a man later known as a renowned CIA spook, in "The Good Spy: The Life and Death of Robert Ames."
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Pilgrimage to the Heart of Darkness: PW Talks with Terry Hayes
In screenwriter Hayes’s debut, "I Am Pilgrim," covert agent Scott Murdoch, aka “Pilgrim,” pursues both a lone-wolf bioterrorist and wrestles with personal demons threatening his own soul.
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An Emotional Echo: PW Talks with Stacey D’Erasmo
Stacey D’Erasmo’s fourth novel, "Wonderland," chronicles a 40-something musician’s attempt to restart her career while touring Europe.
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Speaking for the Dead: PW Talks With John Bennett
In "Jack the Ripper: The Forgotten Victims," Paul Begg and John Bennett recover the stories of murdered women not considered official victims of the Ripper. We spoke with John Bennett about the case and the writing process.
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Civil Rights and the South: PW Talks with Greg Iles
Iles explores the unrest in the South during the 1960s in his fourth Penn Cage novel, "Natchez Burning."
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Uproariously Vile: PW Talks with Douglas Coupland
In "Worst. Person. Ever." rotten-to-the-core Raymond Gunt, an unemployed cameraman, travels from West London to the set of a reality TV show in the Pacific, offending nearly every single person whose path he crosses.
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The Krauses’ Kids: PW Talks with Steven Pressman
In "50 Children: One Ordinary Couple’s Extraordinary Rescue Mission into the Heart of Nazi Germany," journalist Pressman recounts how Gil and Eleanor Kraus, a Jewish-American couple, rescued 50 Jewish children from the heart of Austria during the early days of WWII.
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Crime in a Closed Community: PW Talks with Julia Dahl
Tabloid reporter Rebekah Roberts investigates a Hasidic woman’s murder in Brooklyn in Dahl’s debut, Invisible City.
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Made in the USA: PW Talks with Anand Giridharadas
In "The True American: Murder and Mercy in Texas," New York Times columnist Giridharadas recounts a saga of murder, redemption, and the meaning of American identity.
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Gut Feeling: PW Talks with Dr. Martin J. Blaser
In "Missing Microbes: How the Overuse of Antibiotics Is Fueling Our Modern Plagues," director of the Human Microbiome Program at NYU, calls for significant changes to the way that we coexist with microbiota (the microscopic organisms that live within us).
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Divine Avatars: PW Talks With Maxwell Neely-Cohen
In 2008 fresh out of college and bolstered by a lucrative DJing hobby, Neely-Cohen embarked on a novel. The result is "Echo of the Boom" (Apr.), an apocalyptic story from the perspective of four larger-than-life teenagers.
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Q & A with Carter Roy
Carter Roy, aka Michael Stearns, founder of the Upstart Crow Literary agency, is taking in the view from the other side of the desk with his children's book debut, "The Blood Guard."
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Nonfiction and the Art of Poetic Precision: PW Talks With Simon Schama
Historian and award-winning author Schama majestically syntheses 2500 years of Jewish history in "The Story of the Jews: Finding the Words."
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Obsessive & Compulsive: PW Talks with Lawrence Osborne
"The Ballad of a Small Player," the sophomore novel from acclaimed travel writer and journalist Lawrence Osborne, is a searing tale of addiction and despair set amid the glittering world of Macau’s casinos.
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