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Into the Fire: PW talks with Timothy Egan
"Imagine if President Obama and his top aides went skinny dipping in the Potomac or stripped to their shorts and boxed at night?"
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Q & A with Gennifer Choldenko
Q: When you finished writing Al Capone Does My Shirts, did you think Moose’s story wasn’t finished? How did this second book come about?
A: Actually, while I was working on the first book, there was so much material and I tried to shove it all in the first book. But honestly, it was so challenging to write the first book. So when I finished the first one, I did not want to do a second one. I knew there was a lot more to Moose’s story, but I needed time away from it. -
The Legendary Stan Lee Talks Manga and Ultimo
The legendary Stan Lee was on hand at Comic-con this year to promote Ultimo, a new manga series he is working on for Viz Media in collaboration with the noted manga-ka Hiroyuki Takei, creator of the bestselling manga series Shaman King. Originally conceived for the Japanese market, Ultimo the story of two mysterious and powerful mechanized figures—one good; the other evil—created by a mysterious scientist/shaman figure that looks suspiciously like Stan Lee himself.
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Cooking the Books with Frank Bruni
Now that Frank Bruni has officially resigned from his post as New York Times restaurant critic, his photo is out there for all the city’s restaurant staffers to ogle. Bruni also airs his life story in Born Round, and talks to PW about his lifelong struggles with food and weight.
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House of David
Pantheon editorial director Dan Frank and Pantheon designer/senior editor Chip Kidd discuss David Mazzucchelli's much anticipated graphic novel, Asterios Polyp (Reviews, Feb. 9), the story of an architect who designs highly theoretical buildings that are never constructed. Mazzucchelli worked on this book for about 10 years.
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Twisting Real Life a Bit: PW talks with Stuart MacBride
"With police officers, the more grisly the scene, the more likely they are to be cracking jokes... And given the kind of horrors I inflict on them, the humor tends to be very dark indeed."
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Ah, for the Love of Food: PW talks with Frank Bruni
In his new memoir, former New York Times restaurant critic Frank Bruni discusses his relationship to food and his battles with weight throughout his life.
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Author Interview: PW profiles David Leite
David Leite tours Newark in an interview about his new cookbook
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'Ranger’s Apprentice' Hits the Road
Having toured the U.S. last year, Australian author John Flanagan isn’t coming stateside for the release of The Siege of Macindaw (Philomel, Sept.), the sixth book in his Ranger’s Apprentice series. Soon readers in 27 U.S. cities will be able to see a theatrical performance entitled “Escape to Araluen,” based on the first Ranger’s Apprentice book, The Ruins of Gorlan, thanks to a national bus tour Penguin has put together.
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Q & A with Jerry Pinkney
Q: You’ve illustrated so many classic tales, including The Ugly Duckling, Little Red Riding Hood and Aesop’s Fables. What is it that draws you to these timeless stories?
A: A while back I started to think about those stories that have stayed with me over the years. I don’t remember when I first heard these stories that were read to me when I was growing up in the 1940s, but they have been coursing through my veins for all these years. -
When Hollywood's Star Began to Dim: PW talks with Joseph Kanon
"In 1946, more Americans went to the movies than would ever go again. The obsession with celebrity was much more familial... the HUAC attack on Hollywood was shocking; the actors and moviemakers had been so adulated and considered patriots just a short time before. "
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Q & A with Patricia Reilly Giff
Q: How did you come to set this story in the world of horse racing?
A: So many things inspired this novel. For years, my family and I lived in Elmont on Long Island, the town where Belmont Racetrack is located. I don’t mention the track by name in Wild Girl, because I wanted to leave myself a little wiggle room in terms of the details. When kids read books and find things that aren’t perfectly accurate, they point a finger and let me know! -
Author Profile: David Nasser: Escaping from Iran
Iranian-born Christian evangelist and author David Nassertells the story of his family’s escape from Iran during its 1979 revolution, when he was nine years old, in his fourth book, Jumping Through Fires: The Gripping Story of One Man’s Escape from Revolution to Redemption(Baker Books, Oct.). His first book was self-published and has sold more than 125,000 copies so far.
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Author Q&A: Anne Graham Lotz: Pursuing a Relationship with God
Anne Graham Lotz—daughter of Billy Graham and founder of AnGeL Ministries—talks about her 10th book, The Magnificent Obsession: Embracing the God-Filled Life, about Abraham, the patriarch of the great Western religions.
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Cooking the Books with Andrea Israel and Nancy Garfinkel
Andrea Israel and Nancy Garfinkel pictured their novel-slash-cookbook, The Recipe Club: A Tale of Food and Friendship, as a beautifully designed hardcover, color throughout, incorporating recipes and other illustrations with narrative text. Traditional publishers bucked at their vision, so the two Brooklynites decided to publish it themselves, and founded Polhemus Press.
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Uneasy in the Big Easy: PW talks with Ethan Brown
"Iraq War veterans and New Orleanians are the toughest of tough crowds."
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Road to Redemption: PW Talks with Michelle Huneven
"I also wanted to write a book about somebody who didn't feel like she was a good person. What if you don't know if you're owned by darkness or not?"
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Q & A with Elizabeth Bluemle
Formerly editorial director of a small press, creative director of a book packager and a school librarian, and currently a bookseller, author and blogger, Elizabeth Bluemle knows publishing from the inside out. Bookshelf managed to catch her at a rare quiet moment, to ask her about juggling her various book-related pursuits and about her third picture book.
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The Monday Interview: George Dawes Green
An interview with George Dawes Green, whose new novel, from Grand Central, is titled Ravens.
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Small Town, Big Stakes: PW talks with Nancy Mauro
In Mauro's debut, New World Monkeys, struggling young marrieds Duncan and Lily spend a summer in upstate New York contending with a dead wild boar and the human bones in their backyard.
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