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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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Cooking the Books with Molly Wizenberg
Molly Wizenberg’s food blog, Orangette, attracts almost 8,000 people a day. Through her blog, Wizenberg met her husband, landed a monthly column in Bon Appétit—and snagged a book deal with Simon & Schuster for her memoir, A Homemade Life: Stories and Recipes from My Kitchen Table. Wizenberg talked to Cooking the Books from her home in Seattle about blogging, writing a book, and where she finds recipes.
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The Book of Jane: A Web-Exclusive Profile of Jane Hamilton
Jane Hamilton has driven 140 miles north from her rural southeastern Wisconsin farmhouse to talk books at A Room of One’s Own, the venerable feminist bookstore in downtown Madison.
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The Feminine Mystique: Charlotte Roche
In her German-bestselling debut, Wetlands, German television presenter turned novelist Charlotte Roche courts controversy with the very private, very peculiar sexual and grooming habits of her 18-year-old protagonist, Helen Memel.
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Of Prussia, with Love
Michael G. Jacob, under the pseudonym of Michael Gregorio, writes, along with his Italian wife, Daniela De Gregorio, a historical mystery series influenced by the ideas of Prussian philosopher Immanuel Kant, the latest of which is A Visible Darkness.
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The Legacy of an Irish Father
In his memoir, Closing Time, Joe Queenan writes about his alcoholic father and his journey from the projects of Philadelphia to his becoming a writer. What provoked you to write this book now? I started the book four years ago, and I'd been telling the story to other people. What really provoked me to tell the story, though, was that I was tired of going to parties where ever...
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David Ulin
David L. Ulin, book editor of the Los Angeles Times, favors a quote from the father of general semantics, Alfred Korzybski, to describe his perspective on the current state of book reviewing: “It's not a matter of either/or. It's a matter of and/both.” Since joining the Times in October 2005, Ulin has taken on the challenge presented to him when the stand-alone book review section d...
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Q & A with K.L. Going
Children's Bookshelf spoke with K.L. Going about her new novel, King of the Screwups (Harcourt).
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The Monday Interview: Miss Piggy
Miss Piggy’s new book, The Diva Code: Miss Piggy on Life, Love, and the 10,000 Idiotic Things Frogs Do, is published by Hyperion. The Diva spoke with PW about her ambitions. On book editors: "I have considered being a book editor, and I may still pursue that career if I can ever figure out what they do all day. You got any idea?"
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Over Easy, Hard-Boiled: Walter Mosley
Walter Mosley’s best known for his Easy Rawlins mysteries, though he’s also written literary fiction, science fiction, nonfiction, screenplays, “sexistentialist” fiction and regularly contributes to the Nation. Since 1990’s Devil in a Blue Dress (Norton), his first novel, he’s written 31 more books and been published by a lot of outfits, and now, for his latest act, he’s got a new publisher—Penguin’s wunderkind imprint, Riverhead.
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Cleopatra's Aspirations
Historical fantasy author Jo Graham portrays Cleopatra as guided by a loving family and Egypt's gods in Hand of Isis.
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Print Fans Bid Kid Adieu
Much has been written in the two weeks since John Updike's death—about the wonderful precision of his prose and, as Charles McGrath put it, his “unswerving belief in the power of words to faithfully record experience.” But what has not been noted—and understandably, given all there is to note about a man who published 27 novels, 13 collections of stories, n...
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Stepsister Rivalry: Jane Alison
In The Sisters Antipodes, novelist Jane Alison tells of her early years living in Australia, where her parents broke up and switched partners and children with another couple.
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A Likable Cad: William Dietrich
William Dietrich delivers his third historical, The Dakota Cipher, about American adventurer Ethan Gage.
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'More spiritual than I realized': author-psychologist Pipher
Psychologist Mary Pipher had both the talent and good fortune to write a number of bestselling books in the 1990s, including the acclaimed Reviving Ophelia, about teen-age girls.
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The Monday Interview: Larry Wilmore
An interview with Larry Wilmore, author of I’d Rather We Got Casinos: And Other Black Thoughts, which was published by Hyperion.
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To Barbados and Beyond
From Brooklyn to the Caribbean to Africa, Marshall describes the places she has called home and the people she has loved in Triangular Road. Your book is framed by two journeys across the Atlantic. It begins with your trip to Paris with Langston Hughes and ends with your trip to Africa.
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Mengele at 90: Finally Funny
Jerry Stahl returns with Pain Killers, an uproarious novel about a disgraced cop turned PI who's hired to find out whether a San Quentin inmate is actually Josef Mengele.
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The Second Time Around
Your first book is a success. No matter how success is defined, the specter of the second book looms large. The question you've been continually asking of your narrative—“What happens next?”—is asked of you. And it seems as if the story of your career is already written: success is followed by a fall.
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