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Bringing in the Trash: PW Talks with Robin Nagle
Anthropologist-in-residence at New York City’s Department of Sanitation, Robin Nagle, has always been obsessed with garbage.
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Giving Chicago Its Due: PW Talks with Thomas Dyja
In The Third Coast: When Chicago Built the American Dream, native son Thomas Dyja offers a panoramic look at how the Windy City influenced postwar American culture.
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Demons by Daylight: PW Talks with Andrew Pyper
In Andrew Pyper’s The Demonologist, a Milton scholar encounters a possible case of demonic possession.
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Continental Drift: PW Talks with Taiye Selasi
In her gorgeous debut novel, Ghana Must Go, London-born Taiye Selasi traces the residue of sacrifices we make in the name of family.
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Q & A with Nancy Carpenter
Versatile illustrator Nancy Carpenter spoke with PW about her illustrations for Lucky Ducklings, Eva Moore's story of a group of Montauk townspeople who save five ducklings from a storm drain.
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Scanning the Future: PW Talks with Jeff John Roberts
You know the end is near for the long-running Google litigation when the books start coming out.
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Fighting for a Man’s Freedom: PW Talks with Barry Siegel
In Manifest Injustice, Pulitzer Prize–winning journalist Barry Siegel recounts the Arizona Justice Project’s decades-long struggle to free Bill Macumber, a man they contend was wrongfully convicted of murder.
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Going Nowhere: PW Talks with Barbara Garson
In Down the Up Escalator: How the 99 Percent Live in the Great Recession, journalist and playwright Barbara Garson (All the Livelong Day) explores America’s economic woes through the travails of ordinary people.
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One Tough Broad: PW Talks with Becky Masterman
In Becky Masterman’s debut, Rage Against the Dying, retired FBI agent Brigid Quinn tries to build a “normal” life, but a serial killer from her past causes trouble.
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Q & A with Ruta Sepetys
The bestselling author of the highly acclaimed debut Between Shades of Gray, has a new historical novel set in New Orleans in 1950.
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Q & A with Sally Gardner
British writer Sally Gardner's fifth novel, Maggot Moon, set in a tyrannical dictatorship called The Motherland, the sort of place Europe might have become had the Nazis won World War II, is already one of the most talked-about books of the year in England, where it recently won the Costa Children's Prize.
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For the Love of Dinosaurs: PW Talks with Brian Switek
In My Beloved Brontosaurus, science writer Brian Switek travels the American West to learn about the latest developments in our understanding of dinosaur life and biology.
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Living in Complexity: PW Talks with Jeff Chu
In his first book, Does Jesus Really Love Me?: A Gay Christian’s Pilgrimage in Search of God in America, journalist Jeff Chu asks difficult questions about love, faith, and sexuality.
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A YouTube Car Chase in Spain: PW Talks with Alexander Söderberg
Sophie Brinkmann, a Swedish nurse, runs afoul of both cops and crooks in TV screenwriter Alexander Söderberg’s first novel,
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Superfly: PW Talks with Rebecca Miller
Writer and filmmaker Rebecca Miller’s most recent book is Jacob’s Folly, a romp through time from 18th-century Paris to present-day Long Island, narrated by a fly. Miller made film adaptations of three of her earlier books, including The Ballad of Jack and Rose, starring her husband, Daniel Day-Lewis.
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Q & A with Ben Schrank
Razorbill publisher Ben Schrank's most recent book, Love Is a Canoe, follows a Brooklyn couple with a shaky marriage, an editor trying to bring new life to a beloved backlist title, and the author of that decades-old book, whose wife has died.
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Pay Attention: Be Happy: PW Talks with Sonja Lyubomirsky
In The Myths of Happiness, Sonja Lyubomirsky, professor of psychology at the University of California–Riverside, examines what she calls the holy grail of psychology: figuring out how to be happy.
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Death on a Small Island: PW Talks with Robert Masello
A world-threatening virus, the Russian royal family, and the undead all figure in Robert Masello’s thriller, The Romanov Cross, set on a remote Alaskan island.
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Wealth Without Work: PW Talks with Stuart Nadler
In Stuart Nadler’s post-WWII debut novel, Wise Men, lawyer Arthur Wise becomes staggeringly wealthy after winning a class-action lawsuit against the airline industry, triggering lifelong consequences for his son, Hilly, as well as for Savannah, the young black girl Hilly loves.
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Retelling Alice: 'PW' Talks with A.G. Howard
In her modern-day retelling of Lewis Carroll’s Alice in Wonderland, A.G. Howard puts a gothic spin on the beloved classic, sending 16-year-old Alyssa back through the looking glass to correct the wrongs of her great-great-great grandmother Alice.
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