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The Original Joy of Cooking: PW Talks with Author Richard Wrangham
In Catching Fire: How Cooking Made Us Human (Basic), Richard Wrangham dishes up an intriguing theory of human evolution. On behalf of sushi haters like me, tell our readers how nature has fitted humans to eat cooked food. Biologically, we are not well-adapted to raw foods. Our teeth and stomachs are small compared to those of chimpanzees or gorillas, because we don’t eat ...
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Q & A with Francisco X. Stork
Francisco X. Stork’s novel, Marcelo in the Real World (Scholastic/ Levine) is about a young man with Asperger’s syndrome who experiences “the real world” for the first time while working one summer at his father’s law firm. So far it has garnered five starred reviews, and foreign rights have been sold in nine languages.
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Paradise Lost: A Conversation with Justine Hardy
Veteran journalist Hardy (Bollywood Boy) follows the fluctuating fortunes of the Dar family living in war-torn Kashmir in In the Valley of Mist. You've been a journalist in South Asia for 20 years. How did you become interested in Kashmir specifically? I wanted to understand what had happened to this idyll of lakes and mountains and easy religious co-existence.
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Steal This Painting: A Conversation with Myles J. Connor
Master art thief Myles J. Connor Jr. reveals the tricks of his trade in The Art of the Heist. What is your most memorable heist? The Rembrandt [from Boston's Museum of Fine Arts], no question about it. Not only was the painting the most valuable piece I ever stole, but the heist itself—going into the MFA in broad daylight and taking the painting off the wall—was th...
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Soul of a Salesman: A Conversation with Clancy Martin
You may think twice about buying that Rolex after reading How to Sell, Clancy Martin's hilarious and devastating debut about an impressionable Canadian teenager who learns some hard lessons about life, love and diamonds in 1980s Ft. Worth, Tex. How much of the novel is taken from your experience in the jewelry business? An awful lot.
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Q & A with Brent Runyon
Author Brent Runyon talked to Children’s Bookshelf about his transition from autobiographer to novelist, and his new coming-of-age story, Surface Tension (Knopf).
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Finding What Matters: PW Talks to Author Binnie Kirshenbaum
Binnie Kirshenbaum's ninth book, The Scenic Route, a wistful love story played out among the cities and byways of Europe, has a digressive road map all its own What was the inspiration for Sylvia, who narrates your novel? There's a picture of my great-grandmother on the wall in my living room, and one day I realized I didn't know her name, and I had no family left who would t...
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A Thriller With a Conscience: A Profile of Greg Rucka
Greg Rucka doesn’t look like the kind of guy who could kill someone with his bare hands. But any of his characters—bodyguard-turned-fugitive Atticus Kodiak, ex-assassin Alena, British Special Intelligence Services spy Tara Chace—could take you out with one well-placed punch. “A few years ago, people would have said that I look like the people I write about,” laughs Rucka over coffee in Portland, Ore., where he lives with his wife and two children.
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Life After a Plane Crash: PW Talks to Author Robert Sabbag
In Down Around Midnight, Robert Sabbag revisits the plane crash—and the aftermath—he survived 30 years ago.
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The Monday Interview: Robert Goolrick
An interview with Robert Goolrick, whose novel, A Reliable Wife, will be published by Algonquin Books.
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A Cavafy Person: Daniel Mendelsohn
Critic and memoirist Daniel Mendelsohn undertook the Herculean task of translating and annotating all the poems written by the great Modern Greek poet C.P. Cavafy (1863—1933), including his last, unfinished poems, never before published in English. It was a labor of love, and Knopf is publishing the results this month in two volumes.
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Favorite Flavors: Bobby Flay
In his latest cookbook, Bobby Flay's Burgers, Fries & Shakes, the chef shares both classic and newfound recipes for three of America's most addictive foods. Your previous cookbooks have been pretty broad in scope. Was it a more enjoyable experience focusing in on just burgers, fries and shakes? I don't know that I would feel comfortable saying that I enjoyed writing any bo...
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Breaking New Ground: John Hart
After The King of Lies and Down River, Edgar-winner John Hart delivers another stand-alone crime thriller, The Last Child.
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Death and 'Dirty Dancing'
Former PW editor Emily Chenoweth interweaves the story of a daughter's sexual awakening with her mother's terminal illness, culminating in a bittersweet anniversary party, in her debut, Hello Goodbye.
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The Monkey God's Hands
Cheeni Rao is an award-winning fiction writer and graduate of the prestigious Iowa Writer's Workshop. Rao's memoir, In Hanuman's Hands (Reviews, Jan. 19), is a visionary journey from rock bottom to recovery, telling how a drug and alcohol addiction opened his eyes to the divine and, in particular, forged for him a relationship with Hanuman, the monkey god of the Hindu epic the Ramayana.
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Q & A with Cassandra Clare
Cassandra Clare is the author of City of Bones, City of Ashes, and most recently, City of Glass (McElderry), the final installment in her Mortal Instruments trilogy. Clare spoke with Bookshelf about playing character favorites, making promises to fans, the ups and downs of saying goodbye to a big story, and working on a new series.
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Playing the Game According to Doyle: Donald Thomas
Pegasus Books is publishing British author Donald Thomas’s fourth collection of new Sherlock Holmes stories, Sherlock Holmes and the King’s Evil.
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Cosmic War Correspondent: A Web-Exclusive Profile of Reza Aslan
Reza Aslan already had a new subject in mind to follow up his critically acclaimed — and best-selling — first book, No God But God:The Origins, Evolution, And Future Of Islam (Random House, 2005), a post-9/11 exploration of what Aslan sees as a continuing reformation within Islam.
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BB Guns at Dusk: Colson Whitehead
Colson Whitehead's Sag Harbor draws on his childhood vacations on Long Island.
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Q & A with Lisa Yee
Author Lisa Yee, a “mostly cured workaholic,” talked to Children’s Bookshelf about Absolutely Maybe, her first novel for young adults.
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