-
Books Are Broken-Limbed Baby Dolls: PW Talks with Hanya Yanagihara
Hanya Yanagihara took almost two decades to finish The People in the Trees. She talks about unreliable narrators, laziness, and making stuff up.
-
Video: Rob Sheffield Talks Karaoke, Love and His New Book
Rob Sheffield, author of Turn Around Bright Eyes, about all things karaoke, including the perils of doing your own rendition of Sinatra at a retirement community.
-
Alan Gregory’s Goodbye: PW Talks with Stephen White
White keeps readers teetering on a high wire of suspense, closing out his rounding off his 20-novel Alan Gregory psychological thriller series after 20 books with Compound Fractures, a therapeutic exploration of murder, guilt, remorse, and retribution.
-
A Landmark Day in Washington: PW Talks with Kitty Kelley
For Let Freedom Ring: Stanley Tretick’s Iconic Images of the March on Washington, biographer Kitty Kelley edited and arranged Tretick’s never-before-published images from August 28, 1963.
-
Not Too Taboo? PW Talks with Jesse Bering
In Perv: The Sexual Deviant in All of Us, Jesse Bering tackles some of the most sensitive issues in our society—rape, pedophila, and sexual fetishism, to name just a few—through science and reason.
-
Mother, Activist, Writer, Spy: PW Talks with Valerie Plame
Former CIA agent Valerie Plame makes her first venture into fiction with Blowback (Reviews, July 29; pub date, Oct. 1), the first in a spy thriller series.
-
Ships in Bottles: PW Talks with Laura van den Berg
In Laura van den Berg’s The Isle of Youth, tales of teenage bank robbers and girl detectives uncover the secrets that connect us to “the larger mysteries of the self.”
-
Helping Veterans after Action: How One Indie Author Is Making A Difference
Through writing, I came to understand my experiences in a way that could help other veterans -- past, present, and future -- deal with the aftermath of war. I felt what I had learned was important enough to share with others and was determined to make it available, publisher or not.
-
'PW' Talks with John Mantooth about 'The Year of the Storm'
John Mantooth talks about why he believes characters are paramount to great story, how he pulled from his own life to write The Year of the Storm, and the importance of small wonders.
-
The Private Life of an Assassin: PW Talks with Priscilla Johnson McMillan
Priscilla Johnson McMillan’s Marina and Lee, reissued for the 50th anniversary of the assassination of President John F. Kennedy, examines Lee Harvey Oswald’s dark psyche though the eyes of his Russian wife.
-
False Fiction: PW Talks with Carolyn Cooke
Carolyn Cooke, who won the PEN/Robert W. Bingham prize for fiction for her previous story collection, The Bostons, talks to PW about her new collection, Amor and Psycho.
-
It’s All Their: PW Talks Grammar and Ineloquence with Ross and Kathryn Petras
It could be said that brother and sister team Ross and Kathryn Petras are scholars of stupidity.
-
Doing Business with Hitler: PW Talks with Ben Urwand
In The Collaboration: Hollywood’s Pact with Hitler, Ben Urwand reveals that some movie moguls chose to do business with the Nazis instead of making films about them.
-
If I Can Make It There...PW Talks with Sudhir Venkatesh
In Floating City: A Rogue Sociologist Lost and Found in New York’s Underground Economy, Columbia University sociologist Sudhir Venkatesh studies New York City’s criminal underworld.
-
The Return of Leaphorn and Chee: PW Talks with Anne Hillerman
Anne Hillerman, the daughter of the late Tony Hillerman, revives her father’s classic Navaho cop series with Spider Woman’s Daughter.
-
Finding Love: PW Talks with Graeme Simsion
In Graeme Simsion’s laugh-out-loud debut novel, The Rosie Project, a socially tone-deaf professor seeks his perfect match.
-
Q & A with Melissa de la Cruz and Michael Johnston
Although Melissa de la Cruz's husband, Michael Johnston, has been collaborating on all of her YA novels since the first book in the Blue Bloods series, his name has never appeared on the jackets along with his wife's – until now.
-
Q & A with Laura Vaccaro Seeger
Author/illustrator Laura Vacarro Seeger's latest work, Bully, introduces a bull who begins bullying other animals after being picked on by a larger bull, and eventually repents.
-
Israeli Crime: PW Talks with Liad Shoham
In Lineup, leading Israeli crime writer Liad Shoham explores the complex repercussions of a rape.
-
The Story Is to Blame: PW Talks with Juan Gabriel Vasquez
The Sound of Things Falling explores the ways in which stories shape lives.