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Keeping the Mailer Spirit Alive
A few months before Norman Mailer died in November of 2007, his longtime collaborator Lawrence Schiller sat down with the legendary author to discuss his legacy. “There's a whole generation of people out there who don't know who you are,” Schiller told Mailer, “and I don't want you to be an author who someone reads six or seven books and doesn't read the rest.
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Q & A with Gayle Forman
Bookshelf spoke with Gayle Forman about her new novel, If I Stay (Dutton).
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PW Interviews Heidi Murkoff
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Cooking the Books with the Farm Chicks
Teri Edwards, 45, and Serena Thompson, 38, are stay-at-home moms in Spokane, Wash., with a penchant for antiques, handmade goods and homemade foods. They’re also known nationally as The Farm Chicks, putting on an annual antique show and writing a monthly column in Country Living. Just as their first book, The Farm Chicks in the Kitchen, hits bookstores, the Farm Chicks talked to PW about junking, branding and writing a book.
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Through the Looking Glass: Q & A with Eduardo Galeano
In Mirrors: Stories of Almost Everyone (Nation Books), Uruguayan writer Galeano presents miniature narratives of creation myths and current events from all over the world. What inspired this particular project? For years it was growing inside me. Little by little, I came to accept the challenge of recounting the history of the world in 600 short stories.
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Not Another Investigative Reporter Barbie: An Interview with Laurie Moore
Laurie Moore launches a new romantic suspense series with Woman Strangled—News at Ten, featuring Aspen Wicklow, a recent college grad who lands a job with Fort Worth's struggling WBFD-TV.
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Swashbucklers with Bite
British author Justin Somper is a man of many hats: he worked as a children’s book publicist and owned his own publicity consultancy group, before creating the hybrid-genre series, Vampirates. According to Somper’s U.S. editor, Nancy Conescu at Little, Brown Books for Young Readers, the first four books in Somper’s series, popular in the U.K. have now been translated into more than 20 languages—and are reaching a growing American readership.
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Q & A with Mark Teague
Mark Teague is the illustrator of the bestselling How Do Dinosaurs… series by Jane Yolen, as well as the author/illustrator of the Dear Mrs. LaRue picture books. In 2009, Teague tackles farm life in a new picture book, another Dinosaur book, and a new (for him) format.
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Norton to Publish Posthumous Volume of Ballard Short Fiction
With the passing of author J.G. Ballard, Norton is preparing to publish a posthumous volume of his work.
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Monday Interview: Ted Dekker
An interview with Ted Dekker, whose novel, Boneman’s Daughters, was published by Center Street.
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The Nomad
In Ana Menéndez's The Last War, an American photojournalist in Istanbul awaits her husband in Iraq, when she receives a mysterious package that triggers memories she's suppressed. You're in Cairo right now. What are you doing there? I'm here on a Fulbright scholar grant for a year, teaching journalism at the American University in Cairo.
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Beginning with an Elegy: Interview with poet Noelle Kocot
The audience—mostly student poets at West Point—was enthusiastic, but Kocot was struck by the kinds of questions they asked after the reading. They were interested in a hierarchical idea of a poetic career: “they didn't have too many questions about the actual poetry. They asked about how to move up in the ranks,” said Kocot.
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Investigating the Strange
In The City & the City (Reviews, Apr. 13), British fantasy author Miéville gives an old-fashioned police procedural a makeover. Most of your novels have been set in secondary worlds like Un Lun Dun and Bas Lag. Why in The City & the City did you opt to use a real-world setting? I'd long been interested in writing a crime novel, and though there's a fair tradition of such novels set...
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Q & A with Margarita Engle
Margarita Engle’s The Surrender Tree marked the second time the Cuban-American poet won the Pura Belpré Award. Her novel tells of the brutality of slavery and war, and the compassion people share despite it. The Surrender Tree was also awarded a 2009 Newbery Honor, the first time the award had ever gone to a Latina author.
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Tasmanian Devil: Richard Flanagan
Richard Flanagan gets attention for his politics and his recent credit as the screenwriter for the Nicole Kidman movie Australia, but the Tasmanian native, whose Wanting is coming out from Atlantic Monthly Press, doesn't crave the limelight. He's much more comfortable speaking about his writing, with a humbleness that almost seems affected until you spend some time with him.
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On the Job
The pop philosopher and litterateur muses on the daily grind in The Pleasures and Sorrows of Work (Reviews, p. 41). Why the switch from philosophical rumination to reportage on the workplace? My inspiration was Richard Scarry's children's classic, What Do People Do All Day? I wanted to write an adult version, partly because I've enjoyed reading it to my son.
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The Woman Question
NBA finalist Kate Walbert's A Short History of Women (Reviews, Feb. 2) follows several generations of women from the British suffrage movement through 1970s consciousness-raising to the age of Facebook as they struggle against oppression. What inspired you to start the book with Dorothy Trevor Townsend, a woman who starves herself for suffrage? I often write from an image, but I never had that ...
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Twittergirls: Laurie Halse Anderson on Tour
Despite the serious subject matter of her newest novel—teenage anorexia—Wintergirls (Viking, Mar.), there was plenty of fun during National Book Award finalist Laurie Halse Anderson’s recent two-week U.S. book tour, which wrapped up this past weekend. During the tour, Anderson provided her fans with updates from the road via her Twitter stream.
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Universal Westerns: PW Talks with Author Craig Johnson
Craig Johnson’s The Dark Horse is his fifth contemporary mystery featuring Wyoming sheriff Walt Longmire. What would you want everyone to know about Walt’s home state of Wyoming? It’s diverse, and even if there are only 535,000 of us, it’s not as square as it looks, culturally or physically.
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