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Why Did the Bullet Explode? PW Talks with Stephen Hunter
In Stephen Hunter’s The Third Bullet, master sniper Bob Lee Swagger investigates a conspiracy behind the JFK assassination.
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The Crazy Elements: PW Talks with George Saunders
In George Saunders’s fourth collection of stories, Tenth of December, the MacArthur Genius Fellow gives us 10 tales of alternating absurdity and horror; but all are permeated with a capacious feeling of humanity.
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Q & A with Joe Schreiber
Perry's Killer Playlist is Joe Schreiber's second YA novel, a sequel to last year's Au Revoir, Crazy European Chick. Both are classic stories of boy meets girl (assassin), with the new book taking teenage Perry and his rock band to Europe, home to Gobija Zaksauskas, a foreign exchange student who turned out to be a killer-for-hire.
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A Hollywood Director's Children's Book Debut
Usually, it's the book that spawns the movie. But in Gary Ross’s case, it was a 1996 movie that spawned his children's book, Bartholomew Biddle and the Very Big Wind (Candlewick) illustrated by Matthew Myers, which will be released November 13.
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Writing What Scares You: PW Talks with Jennifer McMahon
In The One I Left Behind, 13-year-old Reggie Dufrane thinks she has lost her mother, Vera, to a serial killer—until, more than two decades later, she discovers Vera is alive.
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Famous Monsters: PW Talks with Manuel Gonzales
Manuel Gonzales gave up a successful Austin, Tex., pie company to write. The Miniature Wife (Reviews, Oct. 22; pub date, Jan.), a collection of short stories, is his debut.
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To the Ends of the Earth: PW Talks with Melanie Challenger
In her nonfiction debut, On Extinction: How We Became Estranged from Nature (Reviews, Oct. 1; pub date, Dec.), poet Melanie Challenger meditates on evolutionary changes marked by extinctions, and asks what's next for the human race.
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The Medieval Jewish Question: PW Talks with Priscilla Royal
In The Sanctity of Hate, Priscilla Royal explores 13th-century English anti-Semitism.
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Q & A with Andrew Smith
Andrew Smith has developed a reputation as a writer who isn't afraid of portraying evil in its most graphic form, and that includes his hallucinatory new horror fantasy, Passenger, a sequel to The Marbury Lens.
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Life in Art: PW Talks with Ali Smith
In Artful, novelist Ali Smith bends the possibilities of form and fact for an altogether riveting reflection on art and life.
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Q & A with Deborah Ellis
Deborah Ellis’s new novel, My Name Is Parvana is a follow-up to her Breadwinner trilogy about 11-year old Parvana, who disguises herself as a boy in order to work and support her family, and her friend Shauzia’s struggle to get out of an Afghan refugee camp.
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Q & A with Lemony Snicket
Lemony Snicket returns, this time narrating his own story, rather than that sad saga about the Baudelaire orphans. The four-book series, titled All the Wrong Questions, begins with Who Could That Be at This Hour?, in which readers meet Lemony at age 12, as he embarks on his first mission for whoever it is he works for.
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The Big Uneasy: PW Talks with Ed Kovacs
The murder of a U.S. government “black projects” engineer in New Orleans propels Good Junk, Ed Kovacs’s second novel featuring PI Cliff St. James.
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Life at the End of the World: PW Talks with Andri Snaer Magnason
Icelandic author Andri Snaer Magnason laments the world’s energy crisis and failing environmental policies in every project he touches. The novel LoveStar is his latest manifesto.
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Extraordinary Children: PW Talks with Andrew Solomon
Andrew Solomon’s new book from Scribner, Far from the Tree, is a behemoth worth every one of its 976 pages.
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Q & A with Jasper Fforde
Best known for his literary spoofs starring detective Thursday Next, British author Jasper Fforde dips into the YA pool with The Last Dragonslayer, first in a trilogy about an orphan who finds herself in charge of a boarding house/employment agency for wizards and magicians. Fforde spoke with Bookshelf while in Atlanta as part of a month-long U.S. tour, about his inspiration for the new series.
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Video: Daniel Handler on Lemony Snicket and 'Who Could That Be at This Hour?'
Bestselling author Daniel Handler talks about his relationship with Lemony Snicket and his new book, 'Who Could That Be at This Hour?'
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Q & A with Stephen Savage
Stephen Savage, whose latest book, Little Tug, is out this month, shares the story of his artistic beginnings.
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Off the Grid: PW Talks with Jared Diamond
Pulitzer Prize–winning author and UCLA professor of geography Jared Diamond applies his experiences and research in The World Until Yesterday: What Can We Learn from Traditional Societies?
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God Is the Gift of Desperation: PW Talks with Anne Lamott
Anne Lamott fans who can’t get enough of her trademark humorous-neurotic-spiritual voice will thank their Higher Power for a second book this year from the essayist and novelist. (Earlier in 2012 Lamott published Some Assembly Required, about unexpectedly becoming a grandmother.) Help Thanks Wow: The Three Essential Prayers is what you would get if you crossed Brother Lawrence’s religious classic The Practice of the Presence of God with a Tina Fey routine.
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