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The Monday Interview with Ethan Mordden
An interview with Ethan Mordden, whose The Guest List: How Manhattan Defined American Sophistication, from the Algonquin Round Table to Truman Capote's Ball will be published by St. Martin's.
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The Fame Monster: PW Talks with Tom Payne
Payne, former deputy literary editor of the Daily Telegraph, finds the Kardashian sisters' classical counterparts in Fame.
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High School Hoops: PW Talks with George Dohrmann
In Play Their Hearts Out, George Dohrmann spends eight years chronicling an AAU basketball team, its coach Joe Keller, and its star player, Demetrius Walker.
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Not CSI, Japan: PW Talks with I.J. Parker
I.J. Parker's The Masuda Affair is his seventh historical featuring Sugawara Akitada in 11th-century Japan.
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A Nice, Decent Guy: PW Talks with Steve Martin
Comedy legend Steve Martin has a new novel, An Object of Beauty, set in the New York City art world and offering a neat encapsulation of the end of an era.
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Idea Book: Steven Johnson
E-books have found themselves a passionate and articulate champion in Steven Johnson, the bestselling author of Everything Bad Is Good for You, The Ghost Map, and The Invention of Air.
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Family Secrets: PW Talks with Michele Norris
Michele Norris, host of NPR's All Things Considered and author of The Grace of Silence, talks about her Minneapolis upbringing and her family's Deep South roots.
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Why I Write: Elizabeth Marshall Thomas
The relationships we have with dogs seem simple enough and often are taken for granted. But these relationships can be deep and mysterious, and not at all simple.
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The Future of Death: PW Talks with Lois McMaster Bujold
After eight years, Bujold brings back beloved series hero Miles Vorkosigan in CryoBurn, an interplanetary adventure involving shady cryonics cartels.
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Swan Song Singers: PW Talks with Harold Bloom
Critic Harold Bloom's upcoming book, Till I End My Song: A Gathering of Last Poems is an anthology of various poets' final works, or works in which they apprehended death's finality, along with a comment on each by Bloom.
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Questioning Art: PW Talks with Frederic Tuten
Frederic Tuten interrogates his past and a changing world in Self-Portraits, his accomplished latest collection of stories. PW's review said, "Tuten's polished stories of beauty, longing, and loss are relatable, yet strange enough that they constantly pique."
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The Monday Interview with Rick Bass
An interview with Rick Bass, whose Nashville Chrome will be published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt.
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Crooks, by Hook: PW Talks with Sheldon Russell
In The Insane Train, Sheldon Russell's second historical mystery featuring 1940s railroad security agent Hook Runyon, mental patients are transferred across the country by train.
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Antony and Cleopatra Revised: PW Talks with Stacy Schiff
In Cleopatra, Stacy Schiff gives an unprecedented portrait of a queen who survived more by her wits (and wealth) than her beauty.
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Q & A with Kate DiCamillo and Alison McGhee
In Bink & Gollie, two precocious girls who have little in common except for their fertile imaginations are the closest of friends, and embark on a series of adventures. Bink & Gollie's co-authors, Kate DiCamillo and Alison McGhee, at first glance, seem as though they have little in common, but are themselves the closest of friends.
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Why I Write: Will Friedwald
I recently had a disturbing revelation. I started to write about music in my teens, largely because it seemed inevitable. My mother is very literary, my dad was a music buff, and this was the most direct way to combine their two aspirations into the act of writing about music.
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From Siberia, with Love: PW Talks with Ian Frazier
In Travels in Siberia, Ian Frazier takes readers across Russia's great tundra expanse.
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A Poet Exploring Good and Evil: PW Talks with Ron Padgett
Poet Ted Berrigan's close friend Ron Padgett co-edited Dear Sandy, a collection of letters the young Ted wrote his wife when she was institutionalized by her parents for marrying him.
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Jane Austen's Unknown History: PW Talks with Stephanie Barron
Lord Byron is accused of murder in Jane and the Madness of Lord Byron, the 10th Jane Austen mystery from Stephanie Barron, the pseudonym of Francine Mathews.
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The Monday Interview with Patrick Hennessey
An interview with Patrick Hennessey, whose The Junior Officers' Reading Club: Killing Time and Fighting Wars will be published by Riverhead Books.
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