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Shaking Up the Canon: PW Talks with Rita Dove
In the Penguin Anthology of 20th Century American Poetry, former Poet Laureate Rita Dove offers a fresh take on the most important poetry of the previous hundred years.
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Down and Dirty in New Jersey: PW Talks with Joyce Carol Oates
Joyce Carol Oates draws on her Princeton connections—including Sheila Kohler, Paul Muldoon, Edmund White, and her former student, Jonathan Safran Foer—for contributors to her crime anthology in the Akashic series, New Jersey Noir.
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Love, Gin, and Pirates: PW Talks with Elizabeth Hoyt
Scandalous Desires, Elizabeth Hoyt’s third Maiden Lane romance, pairs pirate Mickey O’Connor with conservative widow Silence Hollingbrook in the slums of Victorian London.
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American Grotesques: PW Talks with John Jeremiah Sullivan
In the essays in Pulphead, John Jeremiah Sullivan, Paris Review Southern Editor, encounters some of the nation’s weirdest cultural phenomena.
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Leaving Ceylon: PW Talks with Michael Ondaatje
As British colonialism dies, a young author comes of age in The Cat’s Table.
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Reacher on the Move: PW Talks with Lee Child
Lee Child’s 16th novel featuring former military cop Jack Reacher, The Affair, takes Reacher back to 1997, when he left the Army and embarked on his traveling ways.
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The Monday Interview with Patricia Bosworth
An interview with Patricia Bosworth, whose Jane Fonda: The Private Life of a Public Woman, will be published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt.
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Immigrant Song: PW Talks with Ismet Prcic
Ismet Prcic talks truth in fiction, immigrant literature, and what he learned from Aleksandar Hemon, in his debut novel, Shards.
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Good Dog: PW Talks with Susan Orlean
Orlean, author of the bestselling The Orchid Thief, delves into the life of one of Hollywood’s most iconic stars, the German shepherd Rin Tin Tin, in her biography of the beloved dog and his handlers in Rin Tin Tin.
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The Cost of Violence: PW Talks with Stuart Neville
Stuart Neville’s third crime thriller featuring Belfast Det. Insp. Jack Lennon, Stolen Souls, focuses on human trafficking.
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Deranging Language: PW Talks with Laurie Weeks
In Weeks’s manic, charming debut, Zipper Mouth, set in a mid-’90s dope-sodden party scene, a young woman enacts a passionate flirtation with an unattainable female performance artist.
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Q & A with Maile Meloy
Los Angeles-based author Maile Meloy has received plentiful critical kudos for her work as a writer of short stories and novels for adults; now she has written her first novel for a younger audience. Bookshelf caught up with Meloy upon her return to L.A. from a New York City dinner event with booksellers.
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Interview with Alice Waters
I spoke with Alice Waters from her home in north Berkeley, as she was in the middle of preparing an anniversary event, the subject of her forthcoming book from Clarkson Potter Forty Years of Chez Panisse: The Power of Gathering.
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The Boston Miracle: PW Talks with David M. Kennedy
Kennedy shares his radically successful program—“Operation Ceasefire” or “the Boston Miracle”—for bringing communities, criminals, and policeman together to curb street violence in Don’t Shoot.
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Murder by the Bay: PW Talks with Kirk Russell
Kirk Russell, author of four novels about California Department of Fish and Game warden John Marquez, introduces San Francisco homicide inspector Ben Raveneau in A Killing in China Basin.
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Apocalyptically Ever After: PW Talks with Maureen McHugh
The nine short stories in Hugo-winner McHugh’s new collection, After the Apocalypse, emphasize the human ability to survive and even thrive in the face of global disaster.
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Why I Write: Sam Talbot
I'm a jumping-bean kind of guy. I get up early, and I stay up late, and in between, I'm on the move—surfing, yoga, walking the dog, painting big, colorful, slightly mad canvases, going from one place to another. I just can't stop being in action in some way.
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After Singularity, Chop Wood, Carry Water: PW Talks with Vernor Vinge
In The Children of the Sky, sequel to the Hugo-winning 1992 novel A Fire Upon the Deep, Vinge shows that even advanced far-future humans struggle with social and technical difficulties.
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Q & A with Brian Selznick
Brian Selznick follows his 2008 Caldecott Medal-winning novel, The Invention of Hugo Cabret, with Wonderstruck, which clocks in at 640 pages, 100 pages longer than Hugo, and looks like it's going to be just as big a hit.
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Looking Back: PW Talks with Mark Whitaker
In My Long Trip Home, CNN executive v-p Mark Whitaker explores his biracial heritage and his family demons.
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