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The Foundation of Environmentalism: PW Talks with William Souder
William Souder’s new biography, On A Farther Shore: The Life and Legacy of Rachel Carson, offers a nuanced study of the environmentalist on the 50th anniversary of Silent Spring.
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Achilles' Arrow: PW Talks with T. Geronimo Johnson
In Hold It ’Til It Hurts, the debut novel from New Orleans native T. Geronimo Johnson, a 22-year-old black man named Achilles Conroy tries to make sense of his life after serving two rugged tours in Afghanistan.
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The Dog Who Did Something in the Nighttime: PW Talks with Spencer Quinn
Under his Spencer Quinn pseudonym, thriller author Peter Abrahams has written his fifth whodunit featuring Chet the dog and PI Bernie Little, A Fistful of Collars.
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Write What We Fear: PW Talks with Carla Norton
In Carla Norton’s debut novel, The Edge of Normal, Reeve LeClaire, who was kidnapped and held captive for four years, counsels another kidnap victim.
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The Next Adventure: PW Talks with Peter Heller
Adventure writer Peter Heller, who has surfed in Mexico, kayaked the Tsangpo River gorge in Tibet, and sailed an eco-pirate vessel, has a first novel, The Dog Stars, about the end of the world.
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The Information Mage: PW Talks with Benedict Jacka
Benedict Jacka's 'Fated,' 'Cursed,' and 'Taken' set up a maze of political intrigue and magical mayhem for Alex Verus, a London mage with the gift of seeing all possible futures.
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Jefferson's Tainted Profits: PW Talks with Henry Wiencek
In Master of the Mountain, Henry Wiencek presents startling evidence that Thomas Jefferson was bullish on slavery.
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Secularism Includes Liberty of Conscience: PW Talks with Jacques Berlinerblau
Jacques Berlinerblau’s new book, How to Be Secular: A Call to Arms for Religious Freedom, is both a scholarly look at the political theory of secularism and a rallying cry for reasonable-minded people to coalesce against extremists. Berlinerblau directs the Program for Jewish Civilization at Georgetown University.
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Spring 2012 Flying Starts: Debut Children's and YA Authors
Profiles of five new authors making a splash this season.
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A Game Warden on the Upper Peninsula: PW Talks with Joseph Heywood
Joseph Heywood, the author of the Grady Service series (Force of Blood, etc.), set on Michigan’s Upper Peninsula, tries his hand at a historical mystery, Red Jacket.
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Shine a Little Light: PW Talks with M.L. Stedman
M.L. Stedman’s debut novel, The Light Between Oceans, puts a young couple on a remote island off the coast of Australia after WWI and tests the limits of motherhood.
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French Hearts and Minds: PW Talks with Marilyn Yalom
In How the French Invented Love: Nine Hundred Years of Passion and Romance, scholar Marilyn Yalom analyzes matters of the heart in French literature from the 17th to the 21st century.
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Reaching Out to the Other: PW Talks with Kij Johnson
Kij Johnson’s collection At the Mouth of the River of Bees brings her trademark thoughtful, unsettling touch to a wide variety of speculative genres and unusual topics, from ethereal fantasy to hard SF.
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Starting from Behind: PW Talks with Jonathan Kozol
In Fire in the Ashes: Twenty-Five Years Among the Poorest Children in America, Jonathan Kozol traces disadvantaged kids’ struggles as they make their way into adulthood.
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Action, Drama, ALS: PW Talks with Gregg Hurwitz
Nate Overbay, the hero of Gregg Hurwitz’s thriller The Survivor, is a regular guy with an irregular condition: Lou Gehrig’s disease.
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Q & A with Patrice Kindl
After the publication of her award-winning first novel, Owl in Love, in 1993, Patrice Kindl wrote three more well-received YA novels, but Keeping the Castle, a historical-fiction comedy of manners, is her first in a decade.
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Treating Books Badly: PW Talks with Donald Antrim
In Donald Antrim's hilarious debut novel, Elect Mr. Robinson for a Better World, violence is everywhere. A dismembered body must be scatter-buried, books are thrown at Claymore mines in the local park, and a 1:32-scale "Portuguese interrogation chamber" is built in a residential basement. PW talked with Antrim about treating books badly and writing the old fashioned way.
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Jumping Genres, Changing Names: PW Talks to Scott Spencer
"You know, like a lot of guys, I’ve always wanted to live two lives.” So says Scott Spencer, author of 10 novels and a National Book Award nominee who, with his latest work, will finally get his wish. The latest, Breed (Mulholland Books), is a paranormal thriller/horror tale about a pair of wealthy Manhattan parents who, desperate to get pregnant, submit to a frightening procedure that leaves them with a set of healthy twins, but also unsettlingly changed. The book, by Chase Novak, will be Spencer’s 11th piece of fiction, and his first under a pseudonym. PW recently sat down to talk to him about genre tags, the writing life, and the joys of becoming someone else.
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Many Movements: PW Talks with Seth Rosenfeld
In Subversives: The FBI’s War on Student Radicals and Reagan’s Rise to Power, award-winning investigative reporter Seth Rosenfeld transports readers to the fraught UC-Berkeley campus in the 1960s.
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Funny Girl: PW Talks with Maria Semple
In Maria Semple’s second novel, Where’d You Go Bernadette, once-renowned architect Bernadette Fox has become a recluse in her own home, conversing only with her Microsoft-guru husband, 15-year-old daughter Bee, and a virtual personal assistant in India. Semple talked to PW about the novel's structure and its inspiration.
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