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Q & A with Natalie Merchant
Singer-songwriter Natalie Merchant's conceptual album Leave Your Sleep featured children's poetry adapted into music and song. Merchant spoke with PW about this ambitious and ongoing project for young readers and listeners.
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Fall 2012 Flying Starts
Spotlights on six children's and YA authors who made notable debuts this fall.
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Fall 2012 Flying Starts: Gennifer Albin
Before Gennifer Albin wrote Crewel, the story of a girl who can weave time but who struggles against those in power who want to control her ability, her husband often teased her that her epitaph was going to read: "The author of the 20 most promising first chapters ever."
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Fall 2012 Flying Starts: Chris Howard
Jimi Hendrix guitar solos, Kerouac, Ginsberg, the canyons of the American Southwest and many other influences fed into Chris Howard's first published book, Rootless, a YA novel set in a future America where vegetation and wildlife are long gone.
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Fall 2012 Flying Starts: Sarah J. Maas
Debut author Sarah J. Maas's novel, Throne of Glass, is a lighthearted speculation about the "untold" story behind Cinderella – what if, instead of being the damsel in distress, Cinderella was secretly an assassin who went to the ball to kill the prince?
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Fall 2012 Flying Starts: Matt Luckhurst
As a high school graduate in western Canada, Matt Luckhurst knew what was expected of him.
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Fall 2012 Flying Starts: Rachel Hartman
The path to publication can be a long, slow one. Just ask Rachel Hartman. Her debut, the epic YA fantasy Seraphina, was released nine years after she started writing it, with a few bumps along the way.
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Fall 2012 Flying Starts: Stefan Bachmann
Very little about 19-year-old Stefan Bachmann says "typical teenager."
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Talking to Gabby Douglas
Gabrielle Douglas, who catapulted into history as the first African-American to win a gold medal in the women’s individual all-around gymnastics event at the London Olympics, might seem young, at 16, to be publishing an autobiography.
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Off The Beaten Track: PW Talks with William Least Heat-Moon
In his collection of travel essays Here, There, Elsewhere, William Least Heat-Moon strikes out for destinations unknown, continuing the odyssey he started in 1982 with Blue Highways.
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Of Being and Facebook: PW Talks with Michelle Orange
Film critic Michelle Orange trains her lens on social media, the human mind, and, of course, the movies, in her new collection, This Is Running for Your Life.
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Master of Paris: PW Talks with Simon Brett
Simon Brett intends to follow his 14th Fethering mystery, The Corpse on the Court, with his first mystery in 15 years to feature his first series character, actor/sleuth Charles Paris.
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The Age of a Mountain: PW Talks with Jamaica Kincaid
In See Now Then, Jamaica Kincaid’s first novel in 10 years, the author reflects on marriage, memory,
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Give Them Something to Talk About: PW Talks with Jonah Berger
In Contagious: Why Things Catch On, Wharton marketing professor Jonah Berger examines the irresistible spread of ideas and products.
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In a Polish Kitchen: PW Talks with Anne Applebaum and Danielle Crittenden
In their first cookbook, From a Polish Country House Kitchen, friends and journalists Anne Applebaum and Danielle Crittenden give readers a taste of the Polish countryside.
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From Flappers to Pharaoh: PW Talks with Kerry Greenwood
Australian author Kerry Greenwood, best known for her Phyrne Fisher series set in the 1920s, moves to ancient Egypt for Out of the Black Land.
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Minding the Gaps: PW Talks with Margaret Wrinkle
In her debut novel, Wash, award-winning documentarian and visual artist Margaret Wrinkle uses a fictional lens to see into the lives of a 19th-century slave named Wash and Gen. James Richardson, the Tennessee empire builder who decides to breed him.
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Looking Behind the Curtain: PW Talks With Helaine Olen: Personal Finance 2012
When Helaine Olen was first hired to write about personal finance for the Los Angeles Times in 1996, she was certain she’d be called out as an imposter.
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PW Video Author Interviews
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Ghosts in the Attic: PW Talks with Wendy Webb
Wendy Webb believes in ghosts. By the time readers finish her new haunting novel, The Fate of Mercy Alban, they will too.
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