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Father Doesn't Always Know Best: PW Talks with Robert Gottlieb
Former Knopf and New Yorker editor–in-chief Robert Gottlieb illuminates Charles Dickens’s family life in Great Expectations: The Sons and Daughters of Charles Dickens.
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Steamboats, Mermaids, and the Hudson River: PW Talks with Mark Siegel
Produced over the course of nine years of research, writing, and drawing, Sailor Twain, the story of mysterious doings on a 19th-century steamboat plying the Hudson River, is a debut graphic novel by Mark Seigel, author of graphic nonfiction as well as children’s books, and editorial director of First Second Books, Macmillan’s graphic novel imprint.
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Who or What Done It? PW Talks with Peter F. Hamilton
In Great North Road, space opera master Hamilton blends near-future science fiction with a pair of murder mysteries.
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Thin Man Encore: PW Talks with Julie M. Rivett
Return of the Thin Man, edited by Dashiell Hammett scholar Richard Layman and Hammett’s granddaughter Julie M. Rivett, collects the two Dashiell Hammett screen stories that became the films After the Thin Man (1936) and Another Thin Man (1939).
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Q & A with Bob Balaban
Actor, producer, and director Bob Balaban has appeared on stage, on TV, and in nearly 100 movies, including Midnight Cowboy, Close Encounters of the Third Kind, and Gosford Park. In 2002, he added "author" to his impressive list of credits, with his six-book McGrowl series for middle-graders. Now Balaban makes a new foray into fiction with Boy or Beast, the launch title of the Creature from the Seventh Grade series.
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Skyships Ahoy: PW Talks with Beth Ciotta
In the steampunk series launch Her Sky Cowboy, Beth Ciotta pairs up explorer Amelia Darcy and airship pilot Tucker Gentry in an alternate Victorian England invaded by 1960s time travelers.
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A Surprising Kind of Art: PW Talks with Blake Butler
With Sky Saw, HTML Giant editor Blake Butler evokes a nightmarish apocalypse with meticulous, claustrophobic prose.
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Q & A with Lucy Cousins
The last time British author and illustrator Lucy Cousins, who has more than 30 million books in print worldwide, visited this side of the pond was to celebrate the 10th birthday of her most famous creation, Maisy. That was in 2000, just after Maisy debuted in her own TV series on Nick Jr. So when Cousins arrived for a brief visit earlier this month, PW jumped at the opportunity to catch up with her.
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The ''Ruff'' Road to Recovery: PW Talks with Lisa Edwards
Lisa Edwards was looking for candy—not another canine companion—when she made a fateful stop on her way home one Halloween. But a sign that read “Puppies: $49.99” drew her attention to Boo, a clumsy pup who turned out to have poor eyesight and an uncanny ability to bond with Dog’s best friend. In A Dog Named Boo, Edwards chronicles her life with animals and Boo’s evolution into a therapy dog.
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Titian Rediscovered: PW Talks with Sheila Hale
In the epic biography Titian: His Life, journalist Sheila Hale illuminates the life of both the Renaissance painter and the history of Venice.
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Fleet and Sweet: PW Talks with Zuri Day
In Zuri Day’s Love on the Run, track star Shayna Washington escapes an abusive relationship and then falls head over heels for her new manager, Michael Morgan.
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Prisoners and Race: PW Talks with James Kilgore
James Kilgore’s first crime novel, Prudence Couldn’t Swim, charts the efforts of a white ex-con to find out who killed his black African wife.
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Cookie, Monster: PW Talks with Diana Wagman
Held captive by a seven-foot-long iguana named Cookie.
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Q & A with Jill Abramson and Jane O'Connor
Two publishing luminaries who happen to be sisters – Jill Abramson, executive editor of the New York Times, and Jane O’Connor, v-p and editor at large of Penguin Young Readers Group and author of the Fancy Nancy series – have teamed up to write a picture book, Ready or Not, Here Comes Scout!.
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Freudian Lit: PW Talks with Goce Smilevski
Following in the footsteps of 2006’s Conversation with Spinoza, Macedonian writer Goce Smilevski plucks an individual from history and brings her to life. For Freud’s Sister, Smilevski chose Adolfina Freud, Sigmund’s youngest sister who was killed during the holocaust.
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Mothers and Daughters: PW Talks with Glen Hirshberg
In Glen Hirshberg’s powerful Motherless Child, young mothers Sophie and Natalie are turned into vampires by an ancient creature called the Whistler, and they must send their children into hiding with Natalie’s mother to keep them safe.
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Writing Visually: PW Talks with Todd Grimson
In Todd Grimson’s first collection of short stories, Stabs at Happiness, characters struggle against almost impossible circumstances.
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Cat as Metaphor: PW Talks with Peter Trachtenberg: Pets & Animals 2012
Peter Trachtenberg isn’t exactly drawn to warm and fuzzy topics. His books include The Book of Calamities: Five Questions About Suffering and Its Meaning (Little, Brown, 2008), which earned a starred review in PW and explored anguish, and 7 Tattoos: A Memoir in the Flesh (Crown, 1997), which drew a psychological map by connecting the dots of the author’s skin art. In November, Da Capo will publish his latest, Another Insane Devotion: On the Love of Cats and Persons, in which Trachtenberg intertwines the story of a cat named Biscuit who goes missing and his relationship with his wife, who may also disappear.
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Q & A with Sonia Manzano
Actress and author Sonia Manzano is perhaps best known for her ongoing role as Maria on Sesame Street. But she has also written two picture books and has just published her first YA novel: The Revolution of Evelyn Serrano, about a Puerto Rican girl awakened to political activism in 1969.
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The Broadest of Canvases: PW Talks with Iain M. Banks
Iain M. Banks’s The Hydrogen Sonata explores the background of the far-future Culture, where human, alien, and mechanical sentient beings mingle in a galactic melting pot.
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