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PW Talks with Robert Crais
"I put myself into the characters' head space and live with them for an extended period. I just had so much fun being with [supporting character] Joe Pike in The Watchman that I wanted to do it again."
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PW Talks with P.D. James
"Crime fiction is a very wide spectrum of writing. You have crime at the heart of the book, but you may know who did the crime. In a detective story, you have a mystery at the heart... a closed circle of suspects and clues, and the detective comes in like an avenging god to put things straight."
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Why I Write: Chelsea Cain
I was pregnant with my daughter when I started writing my first thriller, so I guess you could blame hormones.
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PW Talks with Elizabeth Noble
Brit transplant Elizabeth Noble imagines what goes on behind the closed doors of an Upper East Side apartment building in The Girl Next Door.
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Author Q&A: David Gelernter: Renaissance Man Ranges from Computing to a Way of Being
As a college student studying the Bible in the 1970s, David Gelernter started writing a book on Judaism, but dropped it after realizing he needed more life experience. His grandfather’s death prompted him to resume his undergraduate project, resulting in Judaism: A Way of Being (Yale Univ.), which includes his own art. RBL talks to him about his book and its images.
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Why I Write: Sherrilyn Kenyon
I write simply because I hear voices of people in my head who won't give me peace until I convey their stories to the rest of the world. Seriously.
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PW Talks with Raj Patel
"We need to shun the idea that the only way we can shape the world is through our consumption choices."
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PW Talks with Joshua Ferris
"We're always sort of grasping at hope. The answer is always right around the corner, and yet it eludes us."
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Cooking the Books with Luisa Weiss
Cookbook editor and food blogger Luisa Weiss recently sold a memoir, My Berlin Kitchen, to Viking. On her blog, The Wednesday Chef, Weiss explained, “I'm moving back to Berlin and I'm writing a book, about Berlin, about my life, about cooking and home and family and love.” She talked to PW from her office at Stewart, Tabori and Chang, where she’s wrapping things up before departing for Berlin.
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The Monday Interview: Mary Karr
An interview with Mary Karr, whose new memoir, Lit, was published by Harper.
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PW Talks with Jonathan Dee
To the fantastically successful family in Jonathan Dee's The Privileges, failure is foreign, and money is not money. Is this perilous? Perhaps.
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PW Talks with Leila Meacham
Leila Meacham makes a grand return after a 20-year absence with Roses, a compelling East Texas saga with echoes of Gone with the Wind.
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PW Talks with John Rich
"Trauma changes the body; it changes behavior and in the social context of poverty and violence, it may be the real thing we have to deal with."
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Q & A with 'Teen Vogue' Editor Amy Astley
Astley spoke with PW from Teen Vogue Fashion University, a series of workshops and seminars for teenagers interested in fashion, about the new Teen Vogue Handbook.
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Cooking the Books with Ann Mah
Former Viking assistant editor Ann Mah left New York for Beijing, took a job as the dining editor for the English-language magazine That’s Beijing, and wrote a novel about a young Chinese-American woman who moves to Beijing in the midst of an identity crisis. Mah spoke to PW from Paris, where she now lives, about Kitchen Chinese: A Novel about Food, Family, and Finding Yourself, which Avon will publish as a paperback original.
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PW Talks with Stan Jones
"I lived for some time in a remote Arctic village, where I became fascinated by the Eskimo culture. I wanted to write some kind of crime fiction... and when I read Hillerman in the 1980s, the light went on."
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PW Talks with Xiaoda Xiao
"I hope to make people understand what we [in China] went through collectively, the terror in its daily and hourly incarnation. Just like Kafka, you know?"
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Q & A with Sharon Robinson
Q: What was the actual event that inspired this book?
A: In 1955, my parents moved our family from New York City to Stamford, Connecticut, and on our property was a lake that was a source of all kinds of pleasure for us throughout the seasons. The first winter we lived there, my siblings and I wanted to go ice-skating and my mother said we could - as long as my father tested the ice first to make sure it was safe. He agreed to do that - with reluctance. You see, he couldn't swim. -
PW Talks with Thomas Keller
"We always have to understand that the quality of our effort is going to be defined by the products that we have, whether it's the butter or the eggs, the peas, the carrots, whatever—and our ability to cook it."
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PW Talks with Laura Griffin
"It probably goes back to my days as a newspaper reporter, but I really believe the best way to get information is to track down the experts and ask them to share what they know. Everyone has stories to tell."
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