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The Last Taboo: PW Talks with Jill Bialosky
In History of a Suicide, Norton editor Jill Bialosky reflects on her sister's suicide.
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Fall 2010 Flying Starts
Interviews with four novelists who had noteworthy debuts this fall.
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For the Love of Dance: PW Talks with Jacques d'Amboise
Discussing his memoir, I Was a Dancer, Jacques d'Amboise shares the exhilaration of his stellar ballet career.
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A French Puzzle Box: PW Talks with Elena Mauli Shapiro
Elena Mauli Shapiro's 13 rue Thérèse finds inspiration in real life: a box of mementos left behind by a neighbor.
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Fall 2010 Flying Starts: Adam Gidwitz
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The Game of Monopoly
The broadband era has been a period of major innovation, including the first steps of a potentially vast new e-book market. But is the Internet as we know it—the platform that has fueled such innovation—at risk?
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The Kansas-to-Oz Ratio: PW Talks with Karen Russell
Karen Russell's first novel, Swamplandia!, is situated at a crossroads between reality and myth, and investigates the misfortunes of a clan of Florida alligator wrestlers.
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Harlem Revisited: PW Talks with Sharifa Rhodes-Pitts
In Harlem Is Nowhere, Texas transplant and journalist Sharifa Rhodes-Pitts tracks the neighborhood in history, literature, and daily life.
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An Orphanage in Nepal: PW Talks with Connor Grennan
In Little Princes, Connor Grennan travels Nepal in hopes of finding homes for orphans.
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Shots in the Dark: PW Talks with Seth Mnookin
In The Panic Virus, journalist Seth Mnookin tracks the epidemic of fear over vaccines.
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On Odd Edges of Genres: PW Talks with Jo Walton
Jo Walton's novels twist familiar genre scenarios to reveal fascinating new characters and ideas. Among Others uses fantasy elements and the real-world history of science fiction to create a unique story about surviving and finding one's place in the world.
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The Cult and the Nurse: PW Talks with Ellen Meeropol
Ellen Meeropol packs a bounty of moral dilemmas in her taut first novel, House Arrest.
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Why I Write: Bob Greene
There's a certain amount of irony in the fact that I currently make my living as a writer. When I think back to my high school days (more decades ago than I'd like to admit), I remember having a natural aptitude for math and science, but lacking in the creative writing department. I generally viewed writing with the same enthusiasm as going to the dentist's office for a root canal.
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A New Fundamental Instinct: PW Talks with Jed Rubenfeld
Jed Rubenfeld explores a little-remembered tragedy in America—the 1920 bombing of Wall Street, which resulted in more than 400 casualties—in his second historical thriller, The Death Instinct.
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Why I Write: Steven T. Murray
I was fated to become a translator. At four I was exposed to my first foreign language, Tagalog, in Manila, followed by Spanish in Mexico City at seven. Back in the San Francisco Bay area, I took Latin and then German in school.
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A Scottish Crime Novelist
Denise Mina was recognized as the International Guest of Honor at the 2010 Bouchercon World Mystery Convention in San Francisco. She took a few minutes between events to discuss her new graphic novel, the return of her much-loved protagonist, and more.
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Q & A with Michael Rosen
For more than 35 years, Londoner Michael Rosen has been writing books for children, primarily poetry anthologies and picture books. Tiny Fly Guy, the latest offering from the author, who served as the U.K.'s Children's Laureate from 2007-2009, was published by Candlewick last month. Bookshelf caught up with Rosen during his recent visit to Boston.
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Wall Street Casino: PW Talks with Matt Taibbi
The Rolling Stone contributing editor discusses his new book about the revolving door between Washington and Wall Street in Griftopia: Bubble Machines, Vampire Squids, and the Long Con That Is Breaking America.
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Why I Write: Courtney Milan
There is a joke I like to play on my husband.
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The Scales of Justice: PW Talks with Jennie Erin Smith
Smith infiltrates the secretive subculture of illegal reptile smugglers in Stolen World.
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