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Culture Clash: PW Talks with Tatjana Soli
The Forgetting Tree, Tatjana Soli’s new novel about the unlikely bond between two women living in an orange grove, is a vast departure from the award-winning The Lotus Eaters, but she still explores her central theme—what happens when cultures collide.
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Common Knowledge: PW Talks with Aman Sethi
In his first book, A Free Man: A True Story of Life and Death in Delhi, award-winning journalist Aman Sethi delves into the lives of homeless laborers in Bara Tooti Chowk, a labor market in Old Delhi.
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Q & A with Laura Amy Schlitz
Splendors and Glooms, the latest novel from Newbery Medalist Laura Amy Schlitz, is a gothic thriller about three children at the mercy of an unscrupulous puppeteer, who is himself under the spell of a malicious witch. It's actually two separate stories that overlap at one key point, and its complexity gave the Baltimore school librarian fits as she wrestled it into shape. But it allowed her to marry two of her passions in a single work – Dickens and marionettes.
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Getting Her Writing Legs: PW Talks with Chloe Caldwell
In her first essay collection, Legs Get Led Astray, Chloe Caldwell brings together tales of love affairs, obsessions, babysitting, and Brooklyn to create a disarming portrait of a young woman’s life.
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Sussing Out Young Adulthood: PW Talks with Robin Marantz Henig & Samantha Henig
In Twentysomething: Why Do Young Adults Seem Stuck?, mother and daughter Robin Marantz Henig and Samantha Henig compare the early adulthood plights of boomers and Millennials.
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Happy Trails: PW Talks with T.J. Forrester
Miracles, Inc. writer T.J. Forrester returns with Black Heart on the Appalachian Trail, a dark, suspenseful tale of an ex-con hiking the Appalachian Trail. Along the way, he connects with people who both enhance and dangerously complicate his journey.
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Girls with Guns: PW Talks with Shani Boianjiu
Israeli author Shani Boianjiu talks about her debut novel, The People of Forever Are Not Afraid, which her editor has described as The Things They Carried meets Mean Girls.
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Q & A with James Dashner
James Dashner is having a busy summer, with two new books coming out in the next month: The Kill Order, a prequel to his popular Maze Runner trilogy, for teen readers; and A Mutiny in Time, the debut of a new multi-platform, middle-grade series called Infinity Ring.
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Caught Between Two Languages: PW Talks with Joyce Johnson
In The Voice Is All: The Lonely Victory of Jack Kerouac, Joyce Johnson explores the impact of Kerouac’s French-Canadian heritage on his writing and reveals the hardworking man behind the myth.
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Listening to Bach Today: PW Talks with Paul Elie
In his first book, The Life You Save May Be Your Own, Elie wrote a group portrait of writers—Thomas Merton, Flannery O’Connor, Dorothy Day, Walker Percy—whose writings and lives could be connected by the motif of pilgrimage. In his new book, [attach review], he turns his attention to the ways that invention and Bach connect a group of musicians, from Albert Schweitzer to Pablo Casals to Glenn Gould.
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Take That, Sigmund!: PW Talks with Lidia Yuknavitch
With her debut novel, Dora: A Headcase, Lidia Yuknavitch takes on Freud, transporting his famous case
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When Not Choosing Is a Choice: PW Talks with Michael Kardos
Former drummer Michael Kardos’s debut novel, The Three-Day Affair, centers on a spur-of-the-moment kidnapping.
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Q & A with Phillip Hoose
Phillip Hoose's latest work of nonfiction, Moonbird: A Year on the Wind with the Great Survivor B95, follows a red knot shorebird on his annual 18,600-mile roundtrip migration between Tierra del Fuego and the Canadian Arctic.
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Occupied: PW Talks with Janet Byrne
The Occupy Handbook features a dream team of 67 essayists--including Nobel Prize-winning economists Paul Diamond and Paul Krugman; authors Barbara Ehrenreich, Daniel Gross, Matt Taibbi, and Rebecca Solnit--weighing in on the Occupy movement in layman's prose.
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Wall Street Wrongdoing: PW Talks with Michael Sears
A foreign currency trader, freshly out of jail, investigates potential financial misdeeds—along with a suspicious death—in Michael Sears’s first novel, Black Fridays.
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The Triumph of Good: PW Talks with Dean Koontz
Known for his bestselling suspense thrillers, Dean Koontz has incorporated elements of science fiction, horror, and fantasy into his books, along with spiritual grounding. When Koontz writes about the battle between good and evil, he speaks from experience. He endured a frightening childhood with a violent alcoholic father, but found happiness and stability in his long-term marriage. He also converted to Catholicism, and though he later went through a period of questioning that faith, he has returned to it.
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Reclaiming the Vagina: PW Talks with Naomi Wolf
Inspired by her own experience with an injured pelvic nerve, noted feminist author Naomi Wolf (The Beauty Myth) explores the science of female sexuality in her intimate and provocative latest, Vagina: A New Biography.
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More Baths Less Talking: PW Talks with Nick Hornby
In More Baths, Less Talking: Notes from the Reading Life of a Celebrated Author Locked in Battle with Football, Family and Time Itself, Nick Hornby shares his “Stuff I’ve Been Reading” columns.
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Q & A with Kate and M. Sarah Klise
Sisters Kate and M. Sarah Klise, who have collaborated on 18 books, talk about their most recent picture book and why their sister act is still going strong.
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Recipes from Veggiestan: PW Talks with Sally Butcher
In her book, The New Middle Eastern Vegetarian, Sally Butcher, owner of a Middle Eastern food store in London, Persepolis, shares recipes she’s gathered along her travels.
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