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Searching for Universal Love: PW Talks with Stephenie Meyer: A Web-Exclusive Q&A
The Hostby Stephenie Meyer, author of the bestselling Twilight YA series (Twilight, the film, is now in production, slated for a Dec. release), features a love triangle in two bodies. Melanie, a rebel human, is the reluctant host “soul” for Wanderer, an extraterrestrial whose race has successfully invaded a near-future earth. Both struggle with their feelings for Jared, Melanie’s human boyfriend.
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Girls and Violence
Best known for her Grant County thrillers (Blindsighted, etc.), Karin Slaughter has written a sequel, Fractured, to her 2006 stand-alone, Triptych, which introduced an agent of the Georgia Bureau of Investigation, Will Trent, who's dyslexic.
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The Secret Lives of Gene Simmons
In Ladies of the Night, the former Kiss member discusses the world's oldest profession.
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Is 'Tolerance' a Dirty Word?
In Beyond Tolerance, a former New York Times religion reporter argues for deeper interfaith understanding.
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PW's Barbara Walters Interview
Barbara Walters has been on television since 1961 and while she’s interviewed hundreds of celebrities, criminals and world leaders, she’s managed to keep her own life private…until now.
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The Spy Thriller Rules
Central Europe provides the locale for Rules of Deception, California novelist Christopher Reich's new spy novel.
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The Importance of Being God
Though writers are known for their egos, few have come out and literally declared themselves God. New Wave fantasist and poet Thomas M. Disch does just that in The Word of God or, Holy Writ Rewritten.
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History Is the Best Novelist
Alan Furst has published 10 acclaimed espionage novels set in the years just before and during the Second World War, most recently The Spies of Warsaw.
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The Case Against Intelligent Design
Brown University biologist Kenneth Miller is a leading opponent of intelligent design. In Only a Theory, he explains why.
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Orson Scott Card's Ender Comics
Marvel Comics and renowned science fiction writer Orson Scott Card announced at last weekend’s New York Comics Convention a new series of comics based on Ender's Game.
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A Place on Earth for Them
In the 1960s, the severely mentally ill began to be turned out of public hospitals—too often with tragic consequences. In The Insanity Offense, E. Fuller Torrey explores the issues.
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Listening to Voices
After two suspense novels featuring New York City freelance reporter Ridley Jones, Beautiful Lies and Sliver of Truth, Lisa Unger tries her hand at a stand-alone thriller, Black Out.
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Hamlet, and the Morality of Training a Dog: PW Talks with David Wroblewski
A PW Web-Exclusive Q&A: David Wroblewski’s first novel, The Story of Edgar Sawtelle, is set on a farm in northern Wisconsin, where the Sawtelle family raises a fictional breed of dogs.
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A Double-date with Your Dad
Bob Morris, who writes for the New York Times Sunday Styles section, has authored this humorous, tender memoir, Assisted Loving, about mending emotional rifts with aging parents and the art of senior dating.
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War and Politics by Proxy
More Than It Hurts You, the latest from the author of Chang & Eng, uses a child’s helplessness to examine adult horrors.
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Genocide, Through Children’s Eyes: PW Talks With Uwem Akpan
Uwem Akpan’s debut, Say You’re One of Them, is a rich collection of short stories set in different African nations and narrated by children who suffer the brutality of genocide, religious conflict, poverty and street life.
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Questions of Travel
After setting her first four books in and around the city, consummate New Yorker Joan Silber changed course. Ideas of Heaven (2004, Norton), her fifth book, introduced variations in time and place, which Silber reprises for her latest, The Size of the World, also from Norton.
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Anjali Singh
Anjali Singh isn't a baseball player, but it can be said that she hit a home run in her first big league at bat. In 2003, before she'd settled into her first editorial job at Vintage Books, Singh managed to acquire an unusual autobiography by a young Iranian woman living in France. Even more unusual the book, Persepolis by Marjane Satrapi, was a work of comics and told the story of Satrapi's childhood--a young Iranian girl attracted to Western culture growing up under conservative Islamic strictures during the Iranian revolution.
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Master of Crisis and Crime
Thomas H. Cook, the prolific crime writer, says that he’s always believed that crime writing “can be meditative. It’s all about resonance.” Cook’s work—from his breakthrough 13th novel, Edgar-winning The Chatham School Affair (Bantam, 1996), to his 22nd, and latest, Master of the Delta (Harcourt)—explores moral dimensions that reach far beyond the crime.
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Master of Alternate History
A brief profile of Harry Turtledove, hailed as a master of alternate history fantasy novels, to accompany our print feature on the alternate history genre.
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