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PW Talks with Walter Mosley: The End of Easy?
Today, Little, Brown publishes Blonde Faith, Walter Mosley’s 10th and possibly final novel to feature Los Angeles investigator Easy Rawlins. PW caught up with him to discuss what may be an important event for Mosely's many loyal fans.
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On the Road with Deborah Wiles
Author Deborah Wiles tells PW that touring for a YA novel is not just about selling books: it’s about getting kids interested in reading them.
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Marvel’s Dark Tower Team Talks Stephen King
We chat with the creative team behind the transformation of Stephen King’s Dark Tower prose novels into comics, discussing the success of the first miniseries, the response from King's fans and the unique challenges of translating fiction into sequential art.
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A Winning Week: PW Talks with Stuart Dybek
Short story writer and poet Stuart Dybek, winner of a MacArthur "Genius" grant and the Rae Award for the Short Story, has had a really big week. PW checked in with him to see how it's been.
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Ravioli Lost, Adventure Found
In The Lost Ravioli Recipes of Hoboken, Laura Schenone's search for her great-grandmother's ravioli recipe takes her to Genoa and back to New Jersey.
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The Big Uneasy
Sandrine's Letter to Tomorrow, Johnson's debut, charts a light-skinned black girl's uneasy coming-of-age in 1970s New Orleans.
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Q&A with Ellen Emerson White
Ellen Emerson White was an 18-year-old freshman at Tufts University when she wrote her first novel, Friends for Life, a prep school murder mystery that was published in 1983.
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On the Road with Mike Sager
Mike Sager has what some journalists might call a dream job, and others a nightmare. Writing for magazines like Esquire and Rolling Stone, he immerses himself in the lives of celebrities like Rosanne Barr and Kobe Bryant, often actually living with them for months at a time, and comes back with pieces that are equally hilarious and touching.
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A Samurai Sleuth
Laura Joh Rowland is the author of The Snow Empress, her 12th mystery set in 17th-century Japan to feature Sano Ichiro, a high official in the shogun court.
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Alternate Reality
Michael Chabon has just come back from a family vacation in Maine.
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A Working Life
Studs Terkel, oral historian and author of the forthcoming memoir Touch and Go, talks about broadcast technology and finally turning the tape recorder on himself.
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On The Road with Jennifer Gilmore
Former Harcourt publicity director turned full-time author talks to PW about the "slow series of humiliations" that is the book tour.
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A Forensic Thriller
During my days as a prosecutor in the Manhattan district attorney's office, I had the privilege of working with a brilliant young forensic pathologist in the city's office of the chief medical examiner.
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Coming to America: A PW Profile of Ha Jin
The author of the award-winning novel Waiting and other works that have made the personal and political conflicts of people in his native China resonate with Western readers, turns his eye to the American scene in his forthcoming book A Free Life.
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Genes Never Lie—or Do They?
Using 19th-century locks of hair that appeared serendipitously, Edward Ball embarked on an investigation of his family history through its DNA. He reveals the surprising results, and the wonders and flaws of DNA testing, in The Genetic Strand.
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Living with 'Them'
After a memoir and essay collection, McCall's first novel, Them, takes an unflinching look at gentrification's race politics. How did you choose Martin Luther King's birthplace to set the novel? Something I read years ago that has stuck with me verbatim, is deeply true: “the value of real estate is assessed according to its proximity to white people.
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PW Talks with Jack Gantos
I Am Not Joey Pigza is the fourth book in Jack Gantos' series about a hyperactive hero for our times. Bookshelf caught up with the author for a chat about Joey's future.
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The Complexity of Stephen Colbert
In his first book, I Am America (And So Can You!), late-night comedian Stephen Colbert takes on everything that’s destroying America. In an interview before The Colbert Report began, you described your “Stephen Colbert” character as a well-intentioned, poorly informed, high-class idiot.
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Seeking the Stone Cold Truth
John Carr (aka Oliver Stone), former CIA assassin, and his spy boy compadres of the Camel Club expose political corruption in bestseller David Baldacci’s new thriller, Stone Cold.
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