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Why I Write: Rick Steves
We all have pastimes. I don't knit or follow sports. I don't do crossword puzzles. I can't play cribbage. But I do write. I journal (just for myself) when I'm going through tough personal times.
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Three Questions for Paul Theroux
In The Tao of Travel: Enlightenments from Lives on the Road (Houghton Mifflin Harcourt), prolific travel writer Paul Theroux collects insights from other writers, sources he deems "real and reliable travelers—not the sort who boast about their sunny experience in Happyland." We spoke with Theroux about his new book.
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Drunk, Liquored up, and In Disguise: PW Talks with Michael Crummey
Acclaimed Poet and novelist Michael Crummey won Canada's Commonwealth prize for his latest novel, Galore, which chronicles a century of stories, superstitions, strange afflictions, vengeance, and love among the families of a fictional Newfoundland town, Paradise Deep.
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PW Talks with Franny Billingsley
Franny Billingsley, a former bookseller, is the author of three much praised novels: Well Wished, The Folk Keeper, and, most recently, Chime. We spoke to the author about her two careers, her writing process, and her new novel.
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The Lure of Gold: PW Talks with Howard Blum
Three very different men in the 1897 Klondike Gold Rush anchor Howard Blum's tale of the last frontier, The Floor of Heaven.
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A Critic's Own Fictions: PW Talks with Louis Bayard
In The School of Night, Bayard crafts a complex thriller centered on an obscure Elizabethan society of poets and scientists.
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The Right to Question: PW Talks with Stephen Carter
The Yale Law Professor and best-selling author re-examines the principles of Just War to ask hard questions about the current U.S. policy, practices, and president in his latest book The Violence of Peace: America's Wars in the Age of Obama.
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Q & A with Casey Scieszka and Steven Weinberg
In 2006, recent college graduates Casey Scieszka and Steven Weinberg launched a year-and-a-half long international adventure, to Beijing, Shanghai, Vietnam, Laos, Thailand, and Mali.
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In Chile, Underground, Against the Odds: 'PW' Talks with Jonathan Franklin
If you watched 60 Minutes last night, sandwiched between Revolution in Egypt and Lady Gaga, was a story on the 33 Chilean miners rescued last summer against all odds. Today, Penguin publishes 33 Men: Inside the Miraculous Survival and Dramatic Rescue of the Chilean Miners by veteran journalist Jonathan Franklin. PW caught up with Franklin to talk about his gripping account of one of most incredible survival stories this side of Greek mythology.
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In Cold Blood: PW Talks with Stephen Singular
Stephen Singular, author of The Wichita Divide (Reviews, Jan. 31), discusses the killing of abortion provider Dr. George Tiller and the recent Tucson shooting.
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The Prosecutor: PW Talks with Francisco Goldman
In Say Her Name, Francisco Goldman tells the fictionalized story of his late wife, Aura Estrada, who died suddenly in 2007.
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Why I Write: Patricia Wells
I remember as if it happened yesterday. I was 10 years old, in third grade, and standing at the blackboard at Little Flower School in Milwaukee, Wis. Sister Clotidus had asked each of us to write what we wanted to be when we grew up.
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Good at Cooking, and That's Okay: PW Talks with Gabrielle Hamilton
In Blood, Bones, and Butter (reviewed on p. 47), chef Gabrielle Hamilton recounts her meandering life and gives foodies a dose of tough love.
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Lawless and Clark: PW Talks with Marcia Clark
Marcia Clark, the former Los Angeles prosecutor from the O.J. Simpson trial, makes her fiction debut with Guilt by Association (Reviews, Jan. 31), featuring her alter ego, Assistant DA Rachel Knight.
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Q & A with Dan Yaccarino
We spoke with Dan Yaccarino about his new picture book, All the Way to America, which traces his family’s history from Sorrento, Italy, to New York City.
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Lost and Found: PW Talks with Russ Colchamiro
A chance encounter between a budding writer and a beloved comic book artist reveals one way to push the self-publishing envelope. A PW Select Q&A.
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Against All Odds: PW Talks with Gayle Tzemach Lemmon
In The Dressmaker of Khair Khana (Reviews, Jan. 10), Gayle Tzemach Lemmon tells the story of Kamila Sediqi, an Afghan dressmaker who used her business skills to keep her family and her community together.
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Exploring the Edge of the Fantasy Map: PW Talks with Patrick Rothfuss
Patrick Rothfuss stormed onto the epic fantasy scene in 2007 with The Name of the Wind, an instant hit and bestseller. In The Wise Man's Fear, he adds depth to his already rich world as retired hero Kvothe continues narating his life story.
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The Googlization of Books
There have been a few popular books in recent years detailing Google's ascent in the digital world, notably Ken Auletta's Googled: The End of the World as We Know It and Jeff Jarvis's What Would Google Do. But there is another story, says author and media scholar Siva Vai-dhyanathan.
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Tibet: A Region in the Mind: Tibet: A Region in the Mind
With his mother's death the catalyst, Colin Thubron travels To a Mountain in Tibet (Reviews, Dec. 13) to one of the holiest Hindu sites.
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