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Children's Bookshelf Talks with Shaun Tan
The Arrival by Shaun Tan (Scholastic/Levine) is a story told solely through pictures, about a man who travels to a strange land to start a new life for his family. Bookshelf spoke with the Australian illustrator during a brief visit to the U.S. last week to promote the book.
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Were We Right or Were We Right?: Richard Russo's Bridge of Sighs
PW's regular feature, Were We Right or Were We Right, looks at the coverage of recently published titles. This week: Richard Russo's Bridge of Sighs.
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War as a Human Experience
British novelist Pat Barker, who won the Booker Prize in 1995 for The Ghost Road, the final volume of her Regeneration trilogy, revisits World War I in Life Class.
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History Is Global
On September 11, 2001, David Levering Lewis was in Morocco, on the first leg of a research trip for God’s Crucible, a book intended to be a short history of the conflict between Islam and Christianity in eighth-century Europe. “My wife and I were in the casbah of Rabat when we heard of the attacks,” Lewis recalls, “and I said to her, 'this will be a rather different book...
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Just Let Go
In The Geography of Bliss, Eric Weiner searches for the happiest place on Earth. Why did you decide to study happiness? Normally, news correspondents—and I was a foreign correspondent for 10 years—go to the least happy countries, where there's war or famine or civil strife and we look for the least happy people and spend lots of time interviewing them.
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Agreeing to Disagree
At a moment when the boundaries of freedom of speech are being debated, ex—New York Times columnist Anthony Lewis recaps America's love-hate relationship with the First Amendment in Freedom for the Thought That We Hate.
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Transporting Readers to a New Place: PW Talks with Eliot Pattison
After five Inspector Shan mysteries set in contemporary Tibet, Edgar Award—winner Eliot Pattison places the action of Bone Rattler in 18th-century North America.
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Doo Wop, the Music of the Streets:A Web-Exclusive Q&A with Cousin Brucie
Famous DJ Bruce Morrow sits in his West Village townhouse. It’s decidely 1950s—a curvy, lighted jukebox is in one corner; a toddler’s antique metal car with pedals is in another; on a sideboard table there’s a wax replica of a 1950s malt shop meal—french fries, hamburger and milkshake. Morrow is tall and welcoming, and his voice resonates as if he’s on the radio.
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Children's Bookshelf Talks with Lucy Hawking
George’s Secret Key to the Universe is the first book in a trilogy co-authored by arguably the world’s most renowned theoretical physicist, Stephen Hawking, his daughter Lucy, and French physicist Christophe Galfard. Bookshelf caught up with Lucy Hawking in the midst of a whirlwind international book tour.
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On the Road with Frank Warren
People tell Frank Warren their secrets. Shameful, funny, sad, sexual, joyful--they reveal it all to him in anonymously mailed postcards, which he posts online. On tour for his latest book, A Lifetime of Secrets, Warren reveals to PW what it's like to share such secrets face to face.
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What Happens in Vegas...
Charles Bock’s first novel, Beautiful Children, takes readers into a thoroughly unglamorous Las Vegas, one of pawn shops, teen runaways and an exploitative sex industry. He spoke to Publishers Weekly about the mythical city and his long struggle to finish his novel.
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Good Enough to Eat
“Why don’t you order for me?” I ask Michael Pollan, author of the bestselling The Omnivore’s Dilemma and In Defense of Food (The Penguin Press). We’re at Chez Panisse in Berkeley, Alice Waters’s ode to exquisite cuisine and one of the forerunners of the whole food movement in America.
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From Foul Play to Foul Balls
In Covert, lawman turned NBA referee Bob Delaney (with coauthor Dave Scheiber) describes his experiences infiltrating the mob in 1975. Why write now about your experiences from three decades ago? I had been approached about writing a book while I was still in the [New Jersey] state police, but I didn't think it was the right time to tell the story.
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Q&A with Dave Barry and Ridley Pearson
To mark the release of Peter and the Secret of Rundoon (Disney Editions), the final volume in Dave Barry and Ridley Pearson’s saga about Peter before he was Pan, the authors kicked off a national tour, beginning with an appearance this week in Barry’s hometown: Miami, Florida.
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Making the Crime Personal
Cops, criminals and neglected families collide with disastrous results in Person of Interest, the third novel from Theresa Schwegel, whose debut, Officer Down, won the Edgar Award for best first novel.
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Hollywood Revealed
Children of L.A. royalty (actor Dennis Hopper and producer Leonard Goldberg) put their pedigree to good use in Celebutantes a collaborative first novel. What inspired you to take up your pens against your hometown? Ruthanna Khalighi Hopper: We met several years ago at the annual Oscar Party at Mr. Chow’s.
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Q&A with Matthew Reinhart
A q&a with the creator of the new Star Wars pop-up.
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Defining Love: Naomi Nowak’s House of Clay
Using romance and cynicism, Nowak defines love and how we use love it to define ourselves.
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Q&A with Peter Cameron
Peter Cameron, best known as an author of adult novels (The City of Your Final Destination; Leap Year) and short story collections (The Half You Don’t Know: Selected Stories) has written a smart and elegant novel under the Francis Foster imprint of Farrar, Straus & Giroux.
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