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'Politics Is Predictable': PW Talks with Bruce Bueno de Mesquita
In The Predictioneer's Game, Bueno de Mesquita illustrates, with a mathematical model that quantifies self-interest, how we can use game theory to predict—and influence—future events.
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Q & A with Michael Grant
Michael Grant has written over 150 books, most notably the Animorphs and Everworld series (which he co-authored with his wife, Katherine Applegate). The Gone books, his first solo novels, feature a distinctive hook: everyone over the age of 14 in the small California town of Perdido Beach has gone missing. To make matters worse for the children, there’s an impenetrable forcefield around the town and some of the kids are starting to develop strange powers.
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Wall Street Noir: PW talks with Norb Vonnegut
Norb Vonnegut's debut, Top Producers, details intricate Wall Street scams, but at heart it's about friendship and betrayal more than stocks and bonds.
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Men at War: PW talks with Evie Wyld
Repressed trauma trickles down through generations of Australian veterans, POWs and recluses in Evie Wyld's After the Fire, a Still Small Voice. Think Annie Proulx by way of North Queensland.
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Paradise Found: PW talks with Rebecca Solnit
What constitutes a disaster? It's a question of scale.
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Why I Write: Jimmy Santiago Baca
I'm a poet and I've written a dozen or so poetry books, a collection of essays, short stories and a memoir, but never a novel until now.
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Q & A with Sharon M. Draper
Sharon M. Draper has been busy of late, with her new Sassy series for tween girls from Scholastic, as well as the release of Just Another Hero (Atheneum), the final book in her Jericho trilogy. The former teacher now writes fulltime, and does school visits and appearances. PW caught up with the author to talk about her writing life.
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Volcano Stories: A PW Web-Exclusive Profile of Yrsa Sigurdardottir
Internationally bestselling Icelandic crime writer Yrsa Sigurdardottir on lame crime, being in Amazon.com's psycho database and shaking up the Scandinavian crime novel boys club.
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PW profiles Charles Todd: the mother and son mystery writing team
Masters of psychologically complex detective stories set in the aftermath of WWI, the mother-son team of Caroline and Charles Todd, who write under the name Charles Todd, have a new series featuring a female detective set in the same period.
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A Wake Up Call to the West: PW talks with Alex Dryden
Alex Dryden is the pseudonym of a British journalist who lived in Russia for more than 15 years. Red to Black is his first novel, a thriller that offers a sobering view of Putin's Russia.
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Q & A with Jarrett J. Krosoczka
Author/illustrator Jarrett J. Krosoczka is best known for his picture books; his latest books are a bit of a departure, and are his first foray into the comic/graphic novel format. We caught up with Krosoczka to find out about his latest projects, and whether or not he has a “thing” for any lunch ladies in particular.
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Leaving New England: PW Profiles Tracy Kidder
PW Interview with author Tracy Kidder
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A Model Family: PW Talks with Eugenia Kim
In Eugenia Kim's elegant debut, The Calligrapher's Daughter, a young woman comes of age in tumultuous early 20th-century Korea as the country is ravaged by Japan.
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Sedaris Small City Tour Playing Big
David Sedaris is drawing big crowds at the small cities he is hitting as part of his tour for the paperback release of When You Are Engulfed in Flames.
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Q & A with Phyllis Reynolds Naylor
Author of more than 125 books, including 1992 Newbery winner Shiloh, Phyllis Reynolds Naylor sets her latest novel, Faith, Hope, and Ivy June, in Kentucky. Bookshelf spoke to Naylor about her new book.
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Q&A: Geoff Johns Prepares for 'Blackest Night'
One of DC's biggest sales successes is the revitalization of their space-bound hero Green Lantern. Driven by fan-favorite writer Geoff Johns, test pilot Hal Jordan and his fellow Green Lanterns square off against an army of multi-colored Lantern Corps in the epic Blackest Night, and Johns opened up about building an accessible mythology with an emotional base and Green Lantern's potential for success as a Hollywood blockbuster.
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Death & Laughter: A Conversation with Jonathan Tropper
Jonathan Tropper follows a tumultuous week in the life of Judd Foxman as he confronts a dying marriage, a dead father, infertility and infidelity in This Is Where I Leave You. It's funny.
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A Hollywood Novel That Isn't: PW profiles Chandler Burr
When Chandler Burr was 23 and backpacking around the world, he made a last stop in Israel. At the Western Wall, he was approached by “a young, shortish man of indeterminate age. Wispy beard, a little overweight, white and blue knit kippa” who asked, “Are you Jewish?” Burr said, “Yes. -
Ghana, Not Forgotten: A conversation with Kwei Quartey
Kwei Quartey, the son of an African-American mother and African father, is a doctor in the U.S. but he grew up in Ghana where he’s set his first novel, Wife of the Gods (Reviews, Apr. 13). How did the idea come to you of setting a whodunit in contemporary Ghana? I was visiting Paris for a few days—at the time I’d been trying to write a mystery set in L.
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BookExpo America 2009: Author Breakfast Pairs Memoir with Comedy
Craig Ferguson, host of The Late Late Show, author of the memoir American on Purpose (HarperCollins), and self-titled “illiterate boob” emceed the Author Breakfast on Saturday at the Javits Center’s Special Events Hall, which he jokingly likened to a “café in Paris.”
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