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PW Talks to Rosemary Mahoney A Web-Exclusive Q&A
In this in-depth Q&A, Down the Nile author Mahoney picks up where she left off in a 2003 PW Interview. It’s pure unadulterated Mahoney—tough, thoughtful, revealing, provocative, funny and rawly truthful.
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Q & A with Nancy Werlin
After more than a decade of writing critically acclaimed YA thrillers--including The Rules of Survival, Double Helix and The Killer’s Cousin--Boston-based author Nancy Werlin explores new territory with a novel that blends romance and the supernatural. Impossible (Dial) tells the story of Lucy, an ordinary high school student, who teams up with her family and her best friend Zach to defeat an ancient curse.
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The Monday Interview: Dean Koontz
An interview with Dean Koontz, whose Bliss to You: Trixie’s Guide to a Happy Life by Trixie Koontz, Dog, as told to Dean Koontz, will be published by Hyperion.
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He Sees America Reading
In Promised Land, Jay Parini offers a sometimes surprising list of 13 books that have shaped America, from Of Plymouth Plantation to The Feminine Mystique.
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On Tour with Madge
In Madonna: Confessions, Guy Oseary, the star’s manager and friend for 18 years, photographs her 2006 world tour.
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Road Tripping with Miriam Toews
It seems only fitting that Miriam Toews would drive more than two hours down I-29 from her home in Winnipeg to Grand Forks, N.Dak., to talk up her fourth novel. Aside from the fact that she “loves being on the road more than anything” (she and her three children with husband Neal Rempel often accompanied him on “these long, elaborate, eventful road trips” as he traveled ...
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An Age Like Our Own
Maitland follows her acclaimed first novel, The White Room, which drew on her experiences in Nigeria and Belfast, with Company of Liars, set in England during the Black Plague.
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Q&A: Kenny Shopsin
Curmudgeonly chef Kenny Shopsin talked about his book, Eat Me: The Food and Philosophy of Kenny Shopsin (Knopf), between shifts at his New York restaurant, Shopsin’s General Store.
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The Monday Interview: Bill Tancer, Author of Click
An interview with Bill Tancer, whose new book, Click: What Millions of People Are Doing Online and Why It Matters, will be published by Hyperion.
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Girls and Guns
In Third Strike, U.K. crime writer Zoë Sharp's Charlie Fox, an ex-British soldier turned bodyguard, faces her toughest protection assignment yet: her parents. What inspired you to create such an atypical heroine? Charlie came about because she was someone I wanted to read about, a strong, independent character but not “a guy in nylons.
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The Sinbad of Literature
I've been practicing the pronunciation of Dr. Alaa al Aswany's name for weeks now and by the time we're set to meet at the Cairo Hilton, I'm confident I've got it down. He finds me in the lobby, a big, burly, effusive man, who apologizes for being late, the Cairo traffic impossible. I think about eating in some out-of-the-way foul and falafel joint, but we end up in the hotel's French restauran...
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Q & A with Polly Horvath
Bookshelf spoke with Polly Horvath about her new novel, My One Hundred Adventures (Random House/Schwartz & Wade, Sept.).
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State of Independence: PW Talks to Alafair Burke
Alafair Burke, daughter of acclaimed crime writer James Lee Burke, came into her own with the Oregon-based Samantha Kincaid legal thrillers. The second novel in her new series to feature NYPD Detective Ellie Hatcher is Angel’s Tip (Harper).
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The Monday Interview: Screenwriter Turned Memoirist Joe Eszterhas
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Investigating Heaven and Hell
In The Shadow Pavilion, the fourth urban fantasy-mystery featuring unflappable Detective Inspector Wei Chen, British fantasist Liz Williams blends Chinese folklore, near-future technology and elements of classic police procedurals. What inspired you to create these fanciful settings and characters? It came about from a visit to Hong Kong.
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Short-Order Author
Curmudgeonly chef Kenny Shopsin talked about his book, Eat Me: The Food and Philosophy of Kenny Shopsin, between shifts at his New York restaurant, Shopsin's General Store. You talk about “the art of staying small” and say you have no desire to oversee a Shopsin's restaurant empire or endorse a line of cookware.
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Grant Morrison Talks Comics, Magic, Life and Death
Grant Morrison takes a break from his final crisis and talks about god, death and demons.
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The Monday Interview: Marcos Moulitsas Zúniga
An interview with Marcos Moulitsas Zúniga, author of Taking on the System: Rules for Radical Change in a Digital Era, which will be published by Celebra.
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Good People and Evil Things
Jo Walton, best known for her fantasy fiction, concludes her alternate history trilogy with Half a Crown, which imagines a world in which England and Nazi Germany made peace.
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The Ayatollah Begs to Differ
Majd, grandson of an ayatollah and translator for presidents Khatami and Ahmadinejad, plunges into the heart of modern Iran in The Ayatollah Begs to Differ.
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