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Q & A with Grace Lin
Over the years, author-illustrator Grace Lin has mined her own childhood for funny, upbeat stories that shed light on the unique experience of growing up Asian-American.
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No Accidental Storyteller: PW Talks to Laurie Hertzel
The Minneapolis Star Tribune books editor dishes about life on and off the page in News to Me: Adventures of an Accidental Journalist
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True Friends: PW Talks with Gail Caldwell
In Let's Take the Long Way Home: A Memoir of Friendship, Gail Caldwell remembers the late writer Caroline Knapp, author of Drinking: A Love Story.
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Spring 2010 Flying Starts
Spotlighting four novelists and one illustrator who had their debuts this spring
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Why I Write: Siobhan Fallon
An army base is a strange place. An army base in a time of war , especially after 4,000 men pack up their duffel bags, put on their uniforms, and leave their wives and children for an entire year. In You Know When the Men Are Gone, I attempt to show that world and the moments that lead up to the separation, the long and difficult absence, the return.
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Unveiling Islam Today: PW Talks with Zoe Ferraris
In City of Veils, Zoë Ferraris, who lived in Jeddah as the American wife of a Palestinian Bedouin, explores the interpersonal problems of men and women in Saudi Arabia’s traditional culture.
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Q & A with Patricia MacLachlan
Patricia MacLachlan is the Newbery Award winning author of Sarah, Plain and Tall and more than 20 other acclaimed books. She spoke with Bookshelf about her new novel, Word After Word After Word, which is based on her own experience speaking in schools.
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The Best of All Possible Worlds: PW Talks with J.C. Hallman
Hallman investigates modern day utopians in their natural habitats—communes, $30 billion megacities, bed and breakfasts in Italy, ships perpetually circling the world—in In Utopia (Reviews, Apr. 26).
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Learning to Ease the Pain: PW Talks with Melanie Thernstrom
Melanie Thernstrom feels your pain as well as her own, as she explores treatments and the search for a "cure" in The Pain Chronicles (Reviews, May 17).
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Making Sense of Random Chaos: PW Talks with Kirsten Tranter
Australian Kirsten Tranter debuts with The Legacy, in which Ingrid Grey, an idealistic young woman modeled on Henry James's Isobel Archer, is among the missing when the World Trade Towers fall on September 11.
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Here Comes Clay Shirky
One of the digital age’s great thinkers talks to PW about his new book, Cognitive Surplus, web “values,” and the changing world of publishing.
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Why I Write: Tony Hsieh
Seven years ago, writing a book was one of those things I wanted to check off my list of things to do at some point in my life, like running a marathon. So I decided to run a marathon instead, since that seemed like a lot less work. I was motivated to write a book, but wasn’t inspired.
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Sustainable Excellence: PW Talks to Aron Cramer and Zachary Karabell
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Commies and Mommies: PW Talks with Per Petterson
Per Petterson brings back Arvid Jansen from In the Wake for I Curse the River of Time, his powerful new novel.
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Q & A with Treat Williams
Treat Williams, an accomplished actor who has clinched Golden Globe and Emmy nominations for his work in the theater, television, and film over three decades, steps into a new spotlight with his first book, Air Show (Disney-Hyperion). In this large-format volume, illustrated by Robert Neubecker, two siblings fly with their pilot father to an air show, where they view planes of various design and vintage.
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A Composed Life: PW Talks with Rosanne Cash
In her newest book, Composed: A Memoir, country music singer Rosanne Cash discusses the trajectory of her life as an artist.
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City of Unbrotherly Love: PW Talks with Dennis Tafoya
Dennis Tafoya’s second crime novel, The Wolves of Fairmount Park, explores Philadelphia’s drug underworld.
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Why I Write: Eileen Dreyer
When I was on maternity leave with my second child, I got the bright idea to read all the classic literature I'd missed in school. Don't get me wrong. I had an excellent education. But I went through high school during the '60s, which meant that instead of Silas Marner, I read Animal Farm. Instead of Dickens, Ralph Ellison. I managed to avoid most English Victorian authors, as well as all the French and Russians.
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The Outer Limits of Life: PW Talks with Jonathan Weiner
Hope springs eternal, but how about human life? Jonathan Weiner reports in Long for This World.
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Gimlets and the Gimlet-Eyed: PW Talks with Lily King
Lily King delves into the complicated relationship between an alcoholic and his daughter in Father of the Rain, her powerful new novel.
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