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A Life in Signs
In his first memoir, Hands of My Father, children's book author Myron Uhlberg writes of being a hearing child brought up by deaf parents. Do you think having American Sign Language as your first language helped you develop the creativity to become a writer? It played a very important part.
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Q & A with Anita Silvey
Bookshelf spoke with Anita Silvey about her new book, I’ll Pass for Your Comrade (Clarion).
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Talking About Torture
British novelist Glen Duncan's A Day and a Night and a Day delves into a contemporary world “more filthy than just.”
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The Monday Interview: Wally Lamb
Tomorrow, the decade-long wait for Wally Lamb’s third novel is over with the release of his 739-page The Hour I First Believed (Harper). Just before starting his 15 city tour, he spoke to PW about the new book, the Columbine shootings, Oprah Winfrey and more.
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There's a New Gang in Town: Austin's Delacorte Dames and Dudes
DDD—no, it’s not a heavy-duty new battery. It’s the acronym for an informal group of Austin, Tex., writers all published by Delacorte Press.
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Q & A with Marcia Williams
Bookshelf spoke with Marcia Williams about her new book, My Secret War Diary by Flossie Albright: My History of the Second World War, 1939—1945 (Candlewick).
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On the Scene with Darren Shan
It’s the right time of year for books about demons, vampires and other creatures of the night, making the recent U.S. tour for Cirque du Freak and Demonata series author Darren Shan particularly well-timed.
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The Monday Interview: Max Allan Collins
An interview with Max Allan Collins, whose collaboration with Mickey Spillane, The Goliath Bone, was published by Houghton Mifflin.
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Caitlin Friedman
You know what they say about rolling stones? It's safe to say Caitlin Friedman has gathered no moss. The Massachusetts native began networking in her first job out of college, when she was at Lisa Ekus Public Relations, one of the first PR agencies to focus on cookbooks. Friedman quickly made a name for herself in the field, and it wasn't long before the bright, outgoing publicist was offered a...
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In Search of a Legendary Explorer
In The Lost City of Z, David Grann travels to Brazil to retrace British explorer Percy Fawcett's fatal last mission in the 1920s.
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On Tour with Dave and Ridley
Science Fair, the seventh collaboration between Dave Barry and Ridley Pearson, pubbed with a 250,000-copy first printing. The pair then embarked on an eight-city tour over 10 days, including a visit to Good Morning America.
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Q & A with Ellen Klages
TheGreen Glass Sea, winner of the 2007 Scott O’Dell Award, tells the story of the creation of the first atomic bomb through the eyes of Suze and Dewey, two children of scientists working on the project. Bookshelf spoke with Ellen Klages about her sequel, White Sands, Red Menace (Viking), set in Alamogordo, N.M, after the war.
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Where the Wild Things Are
A New York transplant to Ten Sleep, Wyo. (pop. 300), Stockton recounts her adventures with her mercurial pet coyote, Charlie, in The Daily Coyote.
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The Power of the Web
A computer game developer wreaks havoc after his death via the Internet in Daniel Suarez’s debut, Daemon.
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Fat Is a Laughing Matter
Meeting author-artist Carol Lay in the flesh is wonderfully disconcerting. So closely does she resemble the cartoon version of herself in her whimsical cartoon memoir about dieting, The Big Skinny: How I Changed My Fattitude (Villard)—tall, brunette, with black horn-rimmed glasses and, yes, a slender figure—that shaking Lay's hand becomes an almost metaphysical experience.
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Q&A with Tom Beaudoin
Tom Beaudoin is a newly tenured associate professor of Practical Theology at Fordham University. His books include Virtual Faith: The Irreverent Spiritual Quest of Generation X (Jossey-Bass, 1998), Consuming Faith: Integrating Who We Are with What We Buy (Sheed & Ward, 2007) and, most recently, Witness to Dispossession: The Vocation of a Postmodern Theologian (Orbis). Beaudoin talked to PW about his start in writing, his latest book, and what it feels like to be on the other side of tenure.
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'Nerd' Night in NYC
Author John Green kicked off his national tour for Paper Towns (Dutton) last Thursday evening at the Barnes & Noble in New York City’s Tribeca neighborhood.
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