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Wild and Woolly: PW Talks with Marlene Zuk
In Paleofantasy: What Evolution Really Tells Us About Sex, Diet, and How We Live, University of Minnesota biology professor Marlene Zuk takes on the pseudoscience
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Hello, Cruel World: PW Talks with Robert Jackson Bennett
In American Elsewhere, Robert Jackson Bennett’s fourth novel exploring the fantastical side of 20th-century America, aliens living in a small town struggle to perfect the appearance of human normalcy.
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Smith's Brothers: PW Talks with Lachlan Smith
Lachlan Smith’s thriller debut, Bear Is Broken, opens with Leo Maxwell, a new lawyer, witnessing the shooting of his older brother, an established lawyer.
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The New Normal: PW Talks with Herman Koch
Dutch author Herman Koch’s novel, The Dinner, is a psychological thriller about a five-course restaurant meal that goes terribly awry; the narrative constantly forces the reader to revise his or her understanding of what is actually happening.
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Q & A with Gary Paulsen and Jim Paulsen
Disgruntled teenager Ben and his impulsive father set out to rescue an abandoned border collie in Road Trip, three-time Newbery Honor author Gary Paulsen's first collaboration with his sculptor son, Jim.
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Thinking Like Holmes in the Age of Google: PW Talks with Maria Konnikova
In Mastermind, psychologist Maria Konnikova reveals how anyone can strengthen his or her thinking by adopting some of Sherlock Holmes’s best practices.
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De Luce Sleuth: PW Talks with Alan Bradley
In Alan Bradley’s fourth mystery set in early 1950s England, Speaking from Among the Bones, 11-year-old Flavia de Luce once again plays detective.
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A Lesson in Empathy: PW Talks with Priscille Sibley
Registered nurse Priscille Sibley dissects the complicated ethics of two divisive arguments—the right-to-die and a woman’s right to choose—in her heartrending debut novel, The Promise of Stardust.
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My Brilliant Friend: PW Talks with Elena Ferrante
In a rare interview, Italian author Elena Ferrante talks about My Brilliant Friend, the first in a trilogy that takes main characters and best friends Lila and Elena from childhood to old age.
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Q & A with Karen Cushman
The author of the Newbery Award-winning The Midwife's Apprentice and seven other acclaimed novels of historical fiction, Karen Cushman has proven adept at bringing other eras to life.
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Remembering the Kennedys: PW Talks with Kitty Kelley
Known for her bestselling investigative biographies, Kitty Kelley takes a new direction in Capturing Camelot: Stanley Tretick’s Iconic Images of the Kennedys, which features more than 200 photos from Tretick, a close friend of Kelley’s who, upon his death in 1999, left her a treasure trove of memorabilia from his days covering the Kennedy White House.
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Bad Timing: PW Talks with Aria Beth Sloss
In Autobiography of Us, debut novelist Aria Beth Sloss explores women’s coming of age before the sexual revolution and the secrecy and silence that governed both sexes at the time.
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An Important American Story: PW Talks with Ayana Mathis
Ayana Mathis’s elegant, sure-footed debut, The Twelve Tribes of Hattie, traces a woman’s life through the eyes of her many children.
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From the Silence...PW Talks with Katherine Bouton
Many people have a crystal-clear memory of a pivotal moment in their lives—a wedding, a child’s first word. For former New York Times senior editor Katherine Bouton, it was the day she realized she was going deaf. In her memoir, Shouting Won’t Help: Why I—and 50 Million Other Americans—Can’t Hear You, she recounts her struggles with hearing loss and the shame, guilt, anxiety, and revelations that came with it.
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Three Centuries of Change: PW Talks with Daniel Brook
In A History of Future Cities, journalist Daniel Brook (The Trap) explores the origin stories and transformations of St. Petersburg, Russia; Mumbai, India; Shanghai, China; and Dubai, UAE.
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A (Fatal) Drop in the Blood: PW Talks with Oliver Pötzsch
Oliver Pötzsch’s third thriller in his Hangman’s Daughter series, The Beggar King, again taps into his ancestry.
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Quantum Leap: PW Talks with Ned Beauman
English author Ned Beauman’s new novel, The Teleportation Accident, is a dizzying noirish put-on that races through Berlin, Paris, Hollywood, and Caltech in the 1930s. And, oh, yes, there are Nazis.
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PW Talks with NBA Medalist William Alexander
Rubbing elbows with the likes of Louise Erdrich and Dave Eggers came as a bit of a shock to author William Alexander, who received the NBA for Young People's Literature for his first novel, Goblin Secrets.
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Q & A with Henry Cole
The illustrator of some 80 picture books – some of which he wrote, some penned by other authors – Henry Cole is a versatile children's book creator. In his latest solo effort, Unspoken: A Story from the Underground Railroad, a wordless picture book about a girl who discovers – and protects – a runaway slave hiding in her family's barn.
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Q & Art with Jeff Kinney
The seventh book in the Diary of a Wimpy Kid series, The Third Wheel, landed in stores nationwide on Tuesday, November 11. We took the opportunity to ask series creator Jeff Kinney a few questions.
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