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Justice Journalism: PW Talks with Jeremy Scahill
Scahill’s Dirty Wars: The World is a Battlefield (Nation, Apr.) gets deep in the mire of the War on Terror, exposing the machinations behind U.S. special operations warfare and the prosecution of secret wars around the globe.
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End of the Tunnel: PW Talks with Neil Swidey
Boston Globe Magazine staff writer Swidey’s Trapped Under the Sea: One Engineering Marvel, Five Men, and a Disaster Ten Miles into the Darkness chronicles the construction of Boston’s much-heralded Deer Island Sewage Treatment Plant and highlights the complexity of bringing massive public works to completion, including the deaths of two workers on the project.
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Public Health: PW Talks with Deborah Cohen
In A Big Fat Crisis: The Hidden Forces Behind the Obesity Epidemic—And How We Can End It, scientist Deborah Cohen advocates for a “paradigm shift” in addressing obesity.
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Where There’s Smoke: PW Talks with Julie Cannon
In Smoke and Fire, two women overcome their fears and find love against the backdrop of the oil well blowout suppression industry.
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A Good Gruesome Murder: PW Talks with M.R.C. Kasasian
British writer M.R.C. Kasasian’s debut, The Mangle Street Murders, pits a detective duo, Sidney Grice and his female partner, March Middleton, against the perils of Victorian London.
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Actors Waiting Tables: PW Talks with Phillip Margulies
After writing numerous science and history books for children, Phillip Marguiles follows the remarkable life of a madam in his first novel, Belle Cora.
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Q & A with Alison Lester
In Sophie Scott Goes South, Alison Lester recreates her journey from Australia to Antarctica aboard the Aurora Australis through the diary entries of a fictional nine-year-old girl whose father is captain of the ship.
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Religion Can be Healing—or Fatal: PW Talks with Lawrence Wright
One of PW’s Best Books of 2013, Going Clear: Scientology, Hollywood, and the Prison of Belief by Lawrence Wright (Knopf, Jan.) has won rave reviews all around for its meticulous and brave reporting on the origins and development of the celebrity-studded and controversial religion of Scientology.
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Not that type of ‘Bully’: PW Talks with Doris Kearns Goodwin
Historian Doris Kearns Goodwin’s last book, the wildly successful Team of Rivals (2005), offered an account of Abraham Lincoln’s presidency that took over contemporary pop culture.
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‘To Thine Own Profile Be True’: PW Talks with Randi Zuckerberg
The digital age is hard to navigate.
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Barrier Breakers: PW Talks with Robert Hofler
In Sexplosion: From Andy Warhol to A Clockwork Orange—How a Generation of Pop Rebels Broke All the Taboos, entertainment journalist and Variety editor Robert Hofler looks at the period from 1968 to 1973, when a loose-knit community of artists pushed boundaries and challenged taboos.
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Going Native: PW Talks with Carl Hoffman
In Savage Harvest: A Tale of Cannibals, Colonialism, and Michael Rockefeller’s Tragic Quest for Primitive Art, veteran travel writer Carl Hoffman separates fact from fiction in the notorious case of Rockefeller’s 1961 disappearance in New Guinea.
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Not Jack the Ripper: PW Talks with Sarah Pinborough
In Sarah Pinborough’s Mayhem, another savage murderer is butchering women in London at the same time as Jack the Ripper.
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Pizza with Samuel Johnson: PW Talks with Marcel Theroux
In Strange Bodies, Marcel Theroux envisions life after death, complete with failed marriages, body and soul switcheroos, and Samuel Johnson.
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NBA Young People's Literature Medalist Cynthia Kadohata: On a Streak of 'Luck'
Luck can be found in the title of Cynthia Kadohata's latest novel, The Thing About Luck, which has just won the 2013 National Book Award for Young People's Literature.
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Sitting at the Grownups' Table: PW Talks with Ross Ballard II
As producer, director, sound engineer, and narrator, Ross Ballard II wears many hats for his independent audiobook publishing company. His most recent production, Screaming with the Cannibals by Lee Maynard, came out this summer, and I had the opportunity to talk with Ballard about the company and his experiences as a small publisher in the booming audiobook industry.
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Libertus and Death: PW Talks with Rosemary Rowe
In Dark Omens, Rosemary Rowe’s latest historical mystery set in Roman Britain, her pavement-maker/detective Longinus Flavius Libertus must solve a murder as the Empire reels from news of the death of Emperor Commodus.
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On Memory and Movies: PW Talks with David Thomson
English-born David Thomson is the film critic for The New Republic and the author of more than twenty books on movies.
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Dissident Dames: PW Talks with Judith Mackrell
Mackrell’s Flappers: Six Women of a Dangerous Generation profiles some of the notable women who upended traditional notions of femininity in the shadow of WWI.
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A Chef Writer: PW Talks with Andrew Friedman
Andrew Friedman, has collaborated on more than 20 cookbooks with such America’s most famous chefs as Alfred Portale and Laurent Tourondel.
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