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"A Million Girls Would Kill for This Gig"
It's a dream come true for newcomers sitting beside established writers on the Soul Expressions tour, as they blitz through Indiana Wal-Marts.
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Authors Put Their Soul Into Selling
It’s day one of the Soul Expressions bus tour, a four-day book publicity event during which 19 African-American authors will visit 12 Wal-Mart stores between Indianapolis and Chicago. They’ll sign their works, meet readers and attempt to sell some 6,000 books.
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Web-Exclusive Author Interview: James McCourt's New Voyage
The author of Queer Street: The Rise and Fall of an American Culture, 1947-1985, is back with a novel that takes readers on a tour of gay New York in 1957.
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Children's Bookshelf Talks with Ellen Hopkins
Ellen Hopkins sold her first verse book, Crank, just on the first 75 pages—and without an agent. Since then she has written three additional books—all in verse—dealing with heavy subjects such as teen drug addiction and suicide. Here she speaks with Bookshelf about the power of her format, why her readers trust her so much, and her latest book, Glass (McElderry).
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An Epic Historical
Best known for his novels of suspense, Ken Follett returns to medieval England in World Without End, a sequel of sorts to 1989’s Pillars of the Earth, his most successful book.
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Tales of a Waiter
In Service Included, Phoebe Damrosch tells of being a waiter at New York City’s high-end restaurant Per Se.
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Ann Packer Dives Back In
How does a sophomore novelist deal with living up to the expectations created by her bestselling debut? By realizing she may not be able to.
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PW Talks with Mark Billingham: A Web-Exclusive Q & A
The author talks about fat-free fiction, why it's hard to catch the bad guys with a whistle and what crime novels have in common with comedy.
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Children's Bookshelf Talks with Robin Brande
Robin Brande's debut YA novel, Evolution, Me and Other Freaks of Nature (Knopf) shines a white-hot spotlight on the debate between evolution and creationism and how a thoughtful high school freshman comes to grips with her feelings about religion, science and doing the right thing.
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Family Lines: PW Talks With Edwidge Danticat
Growing up in Haiti, Danticat had a second father—her uncle Joseph, who raised her for eight years while her parents worked in order to bring the family to the U.S. In 2004, within the span of a few months, both fathers died and Danticat’s daughter was born. This triangle of events frames the family’s story in Brother, I’m Dying.
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After the Deluge
Though Naomi Klein became well-known in Canada, the U.K. and Europe after her first book, No Logo (Picador, 2000), unmasked the global injustices hidden by glossy corporate marketing, she’s not yet a mainstream name in the U.S. She has another chance with her new populist manifesto, The Shock Doctrine: The Rise of Disaster Capitalism (Metropolitan Books)
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Northwest Noir
Chelsea Cain’s Heartsick, the first book in a new thriller series to feature Portland, Ore., police detective Archie Sheridan, introduces an unforgettable—and frighteningly plausible—serial killer, Gretchen Lowell.
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Emerging Star: RBL Talks with Brian McLaren
"Emerging church" lightning rod Brian McLaren, author of Everything Must Change: Jesus, Global Crises, and a Revolution of Hope (reviewed in this issue) encourages American Christians to think globally and put their faith into action.
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The Stuff of Language
You could call Steve Pinker, Harvard's star psychology professor, a public intellectual. He made his scholarly reputation with a 1990 article arguing that the human ability to learn language developed via Darwinian natural selection. For Pinker, this idea, still controversial today, was too important to be confined to academia, so in 1994 he published his lively explanation of The Language Inst...
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What Happened Next?
WHAT HAPPENED NEXT? These sequels are sure to get kids fired up about reading this summer. In a starred review, PW wrote that Annie Barrows’s Ivy & Bean, available this month in paperback, “brims with sprightly dialogue” and is “just right for kids moving on from beginning readers.
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Space Race--or Rocket Race?
The 1957 Soviet launch of Sputnik started the space race. In Red Moon Rising, Matthew Brzezinski (nephew of former national security adviser Zbigniew Brzezinski) launches readers back to that moment in time.
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Redefining Paranormal Romance
Paula Guran, editor of the anthology Best New Paranormal Romance, has delivered a second anthology under Prime Publisher's new Juno imprint, Best New Romantic Fantasy (Reviews, July 9).
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Children's Bookshelf Talks with Chris Crutcher
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