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Q & A with Sandra Day O'Connor
Bookshelf spoke with former Supreme Court Justice Sandra Day O’Connor about her new picture book, Finding Susie (Knopf).
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R.L. Stine Visits Chinese Fans
Published in the U.S. by Scholastic, R.L. Stine’s Goosebumps novels have sold more than five million copies in China since 2002, when Jieli Publishing House launched the series there. Stine spent two weeks touring five cities across the country.
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Cooking the Books with the Neelys
Pat and Gina Neely co-own two Neely's Bar-B-Que restaurants in Memphis and one in Nashville, and star in Down Home with the Neelys on the Food Network. Knopf published their first book, Down Home with the Neelys: A Southern Family Cookbook, earlier. They stopped in New York on their 13-city tour, and squeezed in a few minutes to talk to PW and offered a few tips for summertime grilling: have fun and don’t forget the cocktails.
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The Elegance of Muriel: An Author Profile of Muriel Barbery
Muriel Barbery is lovely, not unlike the exquisite prose of her runaway hit novel, The Elegance of the Hedgehog. Why a hedgehog? She shakes her head. “The whole time [the novel] was just called 'Renee' [the name of the narrator, the concierge in a ritzy Parisian apartment building], but we wanted something joyful, mysterious.
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Snake Hunter: A Conversation with Patrick Radden Keefe
Countless Chinese arrived illegally in America with the help of the notorious Sister Ping, the eponymous subject of Patrick Radden Keefe's The Snakehead (Reviews, May 11). What first attracted you to the story of Sister Ping? She seemed like such a fascinating, brilliant, roguish character, and a Horatio Alger—style immigrant success story who, for all her crimes, remains revered in Chin...
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Author Q&A: Robert Wright: 'God's Character Changes a Lot'
In his provocative and thoughtful new book, The Evolution of God (Little, Brown), Robert Wright, author of The Moral Animal (1995) and Nonzero (2001), discusses with Henry L. Carrigan Jr. a new look at the ways in which science can offer compelling insights into the nature of religion and the keys that religious communities hold to opening the doors to harmony among the world’s religions.
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Visiting Bookstores Virtually
Two Random House Children’s Books authors have recently embarked on national book tours—without hitting the road. Jerry Spinelli (Love, Stargirl, Knopf) and Libba Bray (The Sweet Far Thing, Delacorte) are promoting the recent paperback editions of their bestselling novels with virtual bookstore “appearances” to launch the Dial Into Summer program.
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Meeting Rick Riordan: Claire and Rachel’s Excellent Adventure
PW’s Midwest correspondent takes her daughter on a road trip to meet Percy Jackson creator Rick Riordan.
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Q & A with Amy Krouse Rosenthal
Bookshelf spoke with children's author Amy Krouse Rosenthal about her four spring picture books.
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Tatsumi Talks About A Drifting Life
A guest at the recent PEN World Voices Festival in New York City, Tatsumi was on hand to discuss his creation of his acclaimed manga autobiography, A Drifting Life
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The Monday Interview: Leslie M. Pockell
An interview with Leslie M. Pockell, editor of 100 Essential American Poems, which was just published by St. Martin’s Thomas Dunne Books.
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The Language of Dreams: A Conversation with Katherine Russell Rich
In Dreaming in Hindi, Katherine Russell Rich takes a linguistic journey through India.
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Satyr-in-Chief: A Conversation with Jed Mercurio
Jed Mercurio's American Adulterer examines the personal life and many affairs of a sexually insatiable John F. Kennedy as America teeters on the brink of nuclear war.
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Q & A with Robert B. Parker
Robert B. Parker’s bestselling novels about his iconic Boston private investigator Spenser have sold millions of copies worldwide. The author moves back in time in Chasing the Bear: A Young Spenser Novel, which stars this character as a 14-year-old living in a small western town with his father and two uncles, due this month from Philomel with a 150,000-copy first printing.
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A Life Formed by an Earthquake: A Conversation with Stanislao G. Pugliese
In Bitter Spring (Reviews, Apr. 6), Pugliese writes about the life of Ignazio Silone, writer and founder of the Italian Communist Party. How similar is the recent earthquake in Abruzzo, Italy, to the one that Silone survived as a boy? Unfortunately, it seems that history is repeating itself in that part of the world.
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Inside the Cardboard Box: A Conversation with James Rollins
Bestseller James Rollins delivers his sixth Sigma Force thriller, The Doomsday Key (Reviews, Apr. 27). How do you get started on a book? It starts with a box, a cardboard lawyer's file box. Into that box goes anything that might make a story: a stray idea that pops into my head, an article from the latest Scientific American, a note jotted while watching the History Channel and so on.
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Cooking the Books with Adam Schell
Former chef Adam Schell spent nine years researching and writing his first novel, Tomato Rhapsody: A Fable of Lust, Love and Forbidden Fruit (Delcaorte). He picked grapes and olives in Tuscany, visited libraries in Florence to read ancient Italian cookbooks and menus, and studied with a master gardener and cultivated Italian heirloom tomatoes. He talked to PW about what he learned along the way, and also shared his recipe for tomato-baked eggs.
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Q & A with Jenny Han
Bookshelf spoke with Jenny Han about her new novel, The Summer I Turned Pretty (S&S, May).
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The Monday Interview: Rupert Isaacson
An interview with Rupert Isaacson, whose The Horse Boy: A Father’s Quest to Heal His Son was published by Little, Brown.
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During the Storm: A Q&A with musician-author Nic Brown
Musician Nic Brown writes about a disparate cast caught in Hurricane Hugo in his first book, Floodmarkers. Would you consider Floodmarkers to be a novel or a collection? It's both, I guess. I once heard Denis Johnson say about Jesus' Son, and I'm paraphrasing here, that he loved how Jesus' Son was like a CD, because it was small and you could open it up anywhere, and each sto...
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