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No Eye of Newt Here: PW Talks with Eleanor Brown
Eleanor Brown wrestles with the mysteries of home, family, Shakespeare—and a trio of sisters whom the Bard would love to cast—in The Weird Sisters, her elegant debut.
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Summoning Spirits: PW Talks with Andrew Taylor
In Andrew Taylor's The Anatomy of Ghosts, an unlikely investigator delves into alleged ghost sightings in 18th-century England.
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Q & A with Robin McKinley
Robin McKinley gained early fame when her second published novel, The Blue Sword (1982), was named a Newbery Honor and her third novel, The Hero and the Crown, won the Newbery itself. Among her 15 other books are Beauty, a retelling of "Beauty and the Beast," and Sunshine, a vampire novel. In the world of Pegasus, McKinley's newest tale, human beings must coexist with a race of sentient, winged ungulates with whom communication is extremely difficult.
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It's Not About Selling T-Shirts: PW Talks to Jake Nickell, Founder of Threadless
“Threadless was never intended to be a business,” says Jake Nickell of the company he, along with Jacob DeHart (“the two Jakes”), started as a hobby in a corner of his apartment in 2000.
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The Monday Interview with Andrew Hammerstein
An interview with Oscar Andrew Hammerstein, whose The Hammersteins was published last week by Black Dog & Leventhal.
PW: Your grandfather was Oscar Hammerstein II, of Rodgers & Hammerstein fame. Coming from such a notable theater lineage, why did you not pursue the "family business?"
AH: Early on I showed a talent for painting and drawing and so my parents encouraged me to pursue that. But I was always aware of the theatrical legacy that loomed so large over the family and, after college, I began to acquaint myself with my family's history. I created a family tree and tracked down all living members with an eye and ear to interviewing them - to capture their memories and stories for posterity. From that project, I became the default family historian, a position that, I am happy to say, changed the course of my life.
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An Unsuccessful King: PW Talks with C.J. Sansom
In C.J. Sansom's fifth Tudor mystery, lawyer Matthew Shardlake finds a link between a young man driven to suicide and a mad woman incarcerated in Bedlam that could have terrible political repercussions.
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The Winds of War: PW Talks with Peter Bergen
A longtime journalist and CNN terrorism analyst, Peter Bergen is one of the few Western journalists to have interviewed Osama bin Laden. In his latest book, The Longest War, he surveys the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan from the perspectives of the U.S.—and al-Qaeda.
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Tech Book: PW Talks to Kevin Kelly
In his new book, Kevin Kelly, author of What Technology Wants (Viking; PW Reviews, Sept. 13) puts forth a unique view of technology as a living, evolving entity, which he calls "the Technium." The Technium, he notes, wants to grow. It wants to improve. And it will use people as its agents.
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Q & A with Linda Sue Park
Linda Sue Park is the Newbery-Award winning author of A Single Shard and other acclaimed novels and picture books. Her forthcoming book, The Long Walk to Water, profiles two young people in the Sudan—one based on a real Lost Boy, who was forced to flee his village, the other a fictional girl who collects the water for her village.
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Overwhelming Blood Thirst: PW Talks with Matt Haig
Matt Haig's The Radleys depicts a British family of "abstaining" vampires thrown into crisis after the teenage daughter discovers her "overwhelming blood thirst."
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History, Meet Myth: PW Talks with Sam Meekings
In Under Fishbone Clouds, British expat Sam Meekings takes an unflinching look at a Chinese couple's marriage during Mao's Cultural Revolution.
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Q & A with Kate Thompson
In the past five years, the novels of one English writer have been awarded the Whitbread, the Guardian Children's Fiction Prize, been shortlisted for the Carnegie, and won Ireland's Bisto Children's Book of the Year Award four times. The writer is Kate Thompson, who concludes her trilogy about trouble on earth and in Tír na n'Óg, the fairy underworld, with The White Horse Trick.
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Where the Sidewalk Ends: PW Talks with Julian Beever
The English artist takes us into his whimsical trompe d'oeil three-dimensional sidewalk chalk drawings in The Pavement Chalk Artist.
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Poor Babies: PW Talks with Paula Bomer
Paula Bomer's debut, Baby, is a collection of 10 ferocious stories about the pressures on married couples as they raise families.
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Like Mother Like Daughter: PW Talks with Lisa Scottoline and Francesca Scottoline Serritella
In their first-ever joint interview, bestselling novelist Scottoline and budding fiction writer Serritella dish about their second essay collection, My Nest Isn't Empty, It Just Has More Closet Space.
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A Healthy Culture of Suspicion: PW Talks with Peter James
Det. Supt. Roy Grace pursues a rapist with a thing for shoes in Peter James's Dead Like You, the sixth in his contemporary crime series set in Brighton, England.
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Building Bridges: PW Talks with Reza Aslan
Reza Aslan is the editor of Tablet & Pen: Literary Landscapes from the Modern Middle East, an enormous and impressive anthology of 20th-century Middle Eastern literature.
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Making Room for a New Addition: PW Talks with Helen Oxenbury and John Burningham
John Burningham and Helen Oxenbury are two of England’s most honored and beloved author/artists for children. They have been married for 46 years and between them they have created scores of picture books. But until now, they have never done a book together.
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Why I Write: Dave Zirin
James Baldwin once wrote, "America is a place devoted to the death of the paradox." He meant that this is a country most comfortable with putting people in easily identifiable boxes. That's why it becomes such a loaded question when someone asks you what you do for a living.
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Romance in the Rockies: PW Talks with Jo Goodman
Bestselling romance author Jo Goodman pairs up citified doctor Cole Monroe and tomboyish farmer Rhyne Abbot in Marry Me, set in a small Colorado town in 1884.
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