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The PW Interview: Kathy Griffin
PW talked to comedian and self-proclaimed D-lister Kathy Griffin, whose new book, Official Book Club Selection: A Memoir According to Kathy Griffin (Ballantine) is about botched plastic surgery, the brilliance of Kitty Kelley tell-alls and outselling "that hack” Dan Brown.
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PW Talks with Charles Cumming
Cumming's latest spy thriller, Typhoon, considers a clandestine CIA plot to destabilize China on the eve of the Beijing Olympics, but the story starts in Hong Kong in 1997.
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Why I Write: Gary Giddins
How can a nation produce a musical tradition as fecund and flowing as the one erected on the genius of Louis Armstrong, Duke Ellington and Charlie Parker and treat it as though it doesn't exist or exists only in the past or only for those “in the know”?
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Cooking the Books with Ari Weinzweig
In Zingerman’s Guide to Better Bacon, Ari Weinzweig sings the praises of cured pork belly. Weinzeig says “pretty much everybody connected to the food world has got the bacon bug,” and the author, business owner and bacon lover tries to explain why bacon seems to have such a hold on eaters, and also offers some advice for booksellers on surviving the recession.
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PW talks with Jess Walter
National Book Award—finalist Jess Walter (for The Zero) takes on the financial meltdown in his blazing new satire, The Financial Lives of Poets, about an out-of-work journalist's illegal plan to get out of debt.
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PW Talks with Nevada Barr
In 13½, Barr’s stand-alone thriller, two formerly abused children meet and fall in love 40 years later, only to discover that “[t]he things that terrorize you are those you don’t see coming.”
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PW Talks with Michael Sandel
"Figuring out the meaning of justice, freedom, equality and democracy took longer than I anticipated."
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A Crowning Achievement
Florence Parry Heide published her first picture book in 1967. At the time, she was looking for a creative outlet as the youngest of her five children headed off to school. To date, Heide has more than 80 titles for children to her credit. One of her best-known works, The Shrinking of Treehorn, illustrated by Edward Gorey, struck a chord with both readers and critics. But Treehorn also found a huge fan in one young illustrator, Lane Smith.
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AUTHOR Q&A: David Jeremiah: Live Confidently
As the founder of Turning Point, a global broadcast and print ministry, David Jeremiah has made it his business to tie the Bible into what’s happening in the world. His new book is Living with Confidence in a Chaotic World.
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PW Profiles Jeannette Walls: Truth in Nonfiction... and Fiction
Jeannette Walls says the first time she read the finished version of her bestselling memoir, The Glass Castle (Scribner, 2006), “I was like, 'Dang, I got a weird life! Nobody's going to be able to relate to this! Everybody's going to think I'm just a poor white trash loser.' But the shocking—and gratifying—thing was how many people have understood what I was trying to say.”
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PW talks with A.S. Byatt
"I wrote to the great fairy story expert, Jack Zipes, and asked him if he could see a connection between fairy stories and socialism, and he wrote back that the fairy story was a form that attracted socialists—it was connected to utopias."
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PW talks with Barbara Ehrenreich
"We have lost the techniques and the spirit of collective joy—everyone's in a prison of self and the mindset is, if you have a problem you can fix it if you just change your own mind."
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PW talks with Sanjay Gupta
"Someone thinks a person has died. In reality, it's just the beginning of a sequence of events that we have more control of than ever before."
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Q & A with Loren Long
Q: Your new picture book, Otis, has a classic, playful feel. What inspired the look of this art?
A: Well, to back up a bit, The Little Engine That Could marked a new direction for me, from the standpoint that this was the first book where I was obviously digging into a tried and true classic. I’m very proud of the books I did beforehand, but The Little Engine That Could opened up a new world for me. -
Cooking the Books with Ruth Reichl
Five years ago, Houghton Mifflin published The Gourmet Cookbook, a 1,000-plus-page compendium of some of the best recipes—think Lobster Thermidore—from the magazine’s archives updated for 2004. In a nod to changing American tastes and culinary consciousness, the house will release Gourmet Today next month. Gourmet editor-in-chief Ruth Reichl, who edited the book, talks about the massive changes she’s noticed in American home kitchens in the past five years.
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PW talks with Rachel Zucker
Zucker talks to PW about what happens when her family reads her books, and the difference between truth and imagination.
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PW talks with Richard Belzer
"Just being around all these stories from cops while playing Munch, and being a fan of Dashiell Hammett and Raymond Chandler, the idea of a mystery-comedy hybrid seemed right up my alley."
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PW talks with Donald Spoto
"The years have not been kind to Grace [Kelly]. I think we live in mean-spirited times, and there's a tendency among some writers to fabricate reasons to destroy reputations."
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Q & A with Jane Smiley
Q: You obviously love horses. Is this the kind of book that you would have liked to have read as a child?
A: Well, it's more or less the kind of book I did read. When I was a child in 1960 - I was 10 and 11 that year - there were plenty of horse book series. I loved them all and read them all. I read the Black Stallion series, and other Walter Farley books. I also read Nancy Drew and other series. That was what kids' literature was back then. -
A Potent Vintage: PW talks with Laura Anne Gilman
"Winemakers... [are] artisans and alchemists, and transforming winemakers into magicians really flowed quite smoothly."
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