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Canine Crime Solvers: PW Talks with Rita Mae Brown
German shepherd mix King and wire-haired dachshund Baxter help Nevada rancher Jeep Reed solve a murder in Rita Mae Brown's A Nose for Justice, the first in a new mystery series.
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Why I Write: Michael Korda
I've always wanted to write history, and it was only the accident of going to work for a book publisher in 1958 (and the need to earn a regular paycheck) that slowed me down. Even then, I went through a long, self-imposed, part-time apprenticeship.
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Q & A with Blue Balliett
Like Lightning Thief author Rick Riordan, Blue Balliett has morphed from popular teacher to popular novelist. Six years ago, she started publishing bestselling mysteries: Chasing Vermeer, followed by The Wright 3 and The Calder Game. Her fourth title is The Danger Box, inspired by Charles Darwin's diary.
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And I Digress: PW Talks with Timothy Donnelly
Timothy Donnelly's much anticipated second collection of poems, The Cloud Corporation features virtuoso displays of poetic power in long and short poems that closely trace, and play with, how the mind makes sense of the world using language.
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A Catalan Chef: PW Talks with Colman Andrews
Colman Andrews provides a brilliant portrait of Ferran Adrià, the chef of the renowned Catalan restaurant, El Bulli in Ferran, a book that combines biography, culinary journalism, and cultural studies.
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Rounding up the Dogies: PW Talks with Thomas McGuane
In Sweet Grass County, Mont., Thomas McGuane missed his scheduled interview: he had to round up some heifers that had wandered onto the county road. His latest novel, Driving on the Rim, is set in his beloved Big Sky Country.
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Writers Help Struggling Ohio Library
Newcomerstown Public Library in Newcomerstown, Ohio, has been struggling to remain open in its small community due to state budget cuts. The library formed a fundraising committee last fall and has been working hard to raise funds so that it may continue operating.
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The History of a Desk: PW Talks with Nicole Krauss
Great House, Nicole Krauss's new novel, features four lives that intersect at a gargantuan writing desk.
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Why I Write: Melissa Clark
Someone once said of the great food writer M.F.K. Fisher: she was a passionate woman and food was her metaphor. It's an image that has stuck with me throughout my career, the idea that what we eat is a touchstone for human existence, and that food writing can tell us about so much more than what was on the plate.
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Q & A with Dav Pilkey
Dav Pilkey scored a huge hit with The Adventures of Captain Underpants and its sequels; that series stars mischievous fourth graders George and Harold, who turn their principal into an underwear-sporting superhero. George and Harold were credited as the authors of The Adventures of Super Diaper Baby, a Captain Underpants spinoff. Blue Sky will release these characters’ second graphic novel...
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A Parent's Worst Nightmare: PW Talks with Antoinette van Heugten
Antoinette van Heugten, a former international trial lawyer, makes her debut with Saving Max, a thriller about a single mother who places her autistic teenage son in a psychiatric hospital.
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Q & A with Kirsten Miller
Kirsten Miller is best known as the author of the Kiki Strike novels, a series following a group of six girls adventuring in New York City. Her latest book, The Eternal Ones, follows the adventures of Haven, a girl from a small southern town who discovers that she might have lived a past life, and that her lover from her last life might be living in New York.
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Why I Write: Stephanie Pearl McPhee
The first time I wrote this essay, trying to explain why I write, I wrote what I've heard other authors say. Essentially (but really well) I repeated the grand idea that writers write because they must—the fire for the literary art burns so brightly in us that without writing as a form of expression, we would scarcely have a reason to go on. Now, after I typed that, I realized that I'm either more shallow or more complex, because I think I have another reason.
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Sister Act: PW Talks with Ntozake Shange and Ifa Bayeza
Sisters Shange (For Colored Girls Who Have Considered Suicide/When the Rainbow Is Enuf) and Bayeza (The Ballad of Emmett Till) collaborated on Some Sing, Some Cry, a lush chronicle spanning 200 years of the Mayfield family.
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Identity Repair Poet: PW Talks with Thomas Sayers Ellis
In his second collection, Skin, Inc.: Identity Repair Poems, Ellis takes a complex, searing look at the state of black identity in America.
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A Normal Irish Cop: PW Talks with Brian McGilloway
The opening of a gold mine propels Brian McGilloway's third Inspector Devlin mystery, Bleed a River Deep.
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Q & A with Marla Frazee
A briefcase-toting baby wearing a onesie styled like a business suit is clearly in charge of the household in The Boss Baby. Written and illustrated by Marla Frazee, two-time Caldecott Honoree, The Boss Baby is simple in concept—a new baby takes over a household—but Frazee talks about some of the challenges she met while creating it.
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Into the Wild: PW Talks with John Vaillant
Man and tiger face off in Siberia's boreal forests as an Amur tiger turns man-eater and begins methodically selecting and stalking victims in The Tiger.
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Held Captive: PW Talks with Emma Donoghue
Jack, the five-year-old narrator of Emma Donoghue's Room knows only the world inside the 120-square-foot soundproof cell he and his mother have been imprisoned in for years.
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Why I Write: Laird Barron
My paternal grandfather was a failed novelist. He stacked boxes of rejected manuscripts in a closet. I didn't realize this until much later in life, after I'd written half a million words of my own; didn't appreciate this fact until after he died in 1993, alone on a gold claim in the Yukon wilderness.
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