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Q & A with Christoph Niemann
German-born author/illustrator Christoph Niemann moved with his family from New York City to Berlin two years ago, but his two new books both focus on the Big Apple,but his two new books both focus on the Big Apple and are drawn from a blog Neimann produces for the New York Times.
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A Cup of Tey: PW Talks with Nicola Upson
Golden age mystery author Josephine Tey (the pen name of Elizabeth MacKintosh, a Scot) makes her second appearance as a detective in Nicola Upson's Angel with Two Faces.
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The Perfect Dessert: PW Talks with Bill Yosses and Melissa Clark
In The Perfect Finish (Norton), Bill Yosses, executive pastry chef at the White House, and Melissa Clark, a food columnist for the New York Times, describe their favorite recipes, what life is like in the White House kitchen, and how they came to partner on the book.
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Q & A with Rachel Vail
She's written picture books, middle-grade fiction, and young adult novels, but Rachel Vail breaks new ground as an author in her latest novel, Justin Case. Aimed at readers ages 7-9 and written as the journal of a third-grade worrywart, the book will be published by Feiwel and Friends.
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The Art of Gambling: PW Talks with Beth Raymer
In Lay the Favorite, Beth Raymer tells of the gambling life in Las Vegas.
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Divided Loyalties: PW Talks with Sefi Atta
Sefi Atta grew up in Nigeria, was schooled in England, and lives in Mississippi. Her excellent new collection, News from Home, touches on a wide array of lives, from privileged Nigerians in London to a villager facing a possible death sentence.
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Cooking the Books with Kiyo Marsh and Laura Cooper
Kiyo Marsh and Laura Cooper are masters of what you might call "extreme cooking," picking up their skills in their jobs as boat cooks (and deck hands) on Alaskan commercial fishing boats. Along with Kiyo's sister, Tomi, they wrote The Fishes & Dishes Cookbook: Seafood Recipes and Salty Stories from Alaska's Commercial Fisherwomen (Epicenter Press), an IndieBound notable pick. They spoke to PW from Seattle about cooking in 30-foot seas.
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Q & A with Louis Sachar
In his first novel since Small Steps, the 2006 sequel to his Newbery-winning Holes, Louis Sachar focuses on a subject rarely explored in fiction for teens: the game of bridge. The Cardturner centers on 17-year-old Alton, who spends a summer accompanying his blind great-uncle Trapp to his bridge club, where the boy acts as the bridge whiz's "cardturner" and finds himself drawn into the game, the mystery surrounding his relative, and a new love interest. Delacorte will release the novel with a 250,000-copy first printing.
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Wolfing Too Fast: PW Talks with Adam Langer
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Why I Write: Steven Saylor
I can't remember the bookshop, or the city where it happened. I can't even remember which book I was promoting, or much about the reader who asked it—but I'll never forget the question.
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Q & A with Deborah Wiles
Deborah Wiles, author of the Aurora County trilogy, is using the term "documentary novel" to describe her latest release, Countdown, a work of historical fiction set in 1960s Maryland.
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PW Talks with Hilary Spurling
In Pearl Buck in China (reviewed on p. 100), Hilary Spurling examines the interplay of Buck's Chinese upbringing (as the daughter of missionaries) and her writing.
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PW Talks with Sophie Hannah
Det. Sgt. Charlotte “Charlie” Zailer and Det. Constable Simon Waterhouse investigate another bizarre crime in British author Sophie Hannah's The Dead Lie Down. How do you balance Charlie and Simon's police work and the inner lives of the other characters? I wanted to blend two genres that I love: the police procedural, with recurring detective characters, and the...
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Cooking the Books with Angela Miller
Literary agent Angela Miller represents some of the biggest names in food, including Mark Bittman, Jean-Georges Vongerichten, and Marcus Samuelsson. But helping cooks get book deals isn't her only job; Miller also owns Consider Bardwell Farm, a Vermont cheese farm that's drawn national acclaim. In Hay Fever: How Chasing a Dream on a Vermont Farm Changed My Life, she talks about balancing her two day jobs.
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Q & A with Megan Whalen Turner
A Conspiracy of Kings is Megan Whalen Turner's fourth book in the series that began with The Thief, a 1997 Newbery Honor winner. Bookshelf caught up with Turner in California, where her husband's job has taken the family for a sabbatical year.
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PW Talks with Peter Beinart
"I wrote the book to try to understand why, on the eve of the Iraq War, I believed things that, in retrospect, were hubristic."
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Cooking with Love in the Garden State
A Real Housewife of New Jersey promises delicious—and healthy—Italian recipes in her new book, Skinny Italian.
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War of Emotion
Sebastian Junger's War is bound to inspire comparisons to Michael Herr's classic war memoir, Dispatches. Both authors were in war zones as magazine journalists, Herr for Esquire in the jungles of Vietnam in the 1960s and Junger for Vanity Fair in the rugged Korengal Valley in eastern Afghanistan in 2008.
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A Different Sort of Road Novel
Before his novel Nobody's Angel was picked up by Hard Case Crime, Clark, also the author of Shamus Award—nominated Westerfield's Chain, self-published it and sold 5,000 copies to passengers in his Chicago cab.
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Less Foot Binding, More Rock
Iraq War vet Ellie Cooper finds herself caught up in a vast conspiracy against the Chinese government in Rock Paper Tiger, Lisa Brackmann's dynamite debut.
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