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Creating a Credible Fantasy World
PW Talks with David Anthony Durham.
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Growing Stories on a Farm
PW Talks with Jon Katz.
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Natalie Everlasting
Newbery Honor author Natalie Babbitt writes her first novel in 25 years.
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Children's Bookshelf Talks with Ann. M. Martin
More than two decades ago, Scholastic published the first of Ann M. Martin's The Baby-sitters Club novels, which were initially conceived as a four-book series. Hugely successful, the original series spawned four spinoff series over 15 years, as well as a movie, TV series and a host of sideline items. The publisher has sold 176 million copies of its approximately 250 BSC-related books.
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On the Road with W. S. Di Piero
Why clubs are the best venues for literary readings and other wisdom from a traveling bard.
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A Lesson in Killing Characters
Sara Nelson Talks with Annie Dillard.
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Kennedy Fabulous
PW Talks to Sabina Murray.
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Children's Bookshelf Talks With Rick Yancey
On the eve of the publication of Rick Yancey's second book about his extraordinary ordinary hero, Alfred Kropp: The Seal of Solomon (Bloomsbury), PW caught up with the author at his home in Gainesville, Fla., where he now writes fulltime after giving up the career he chronicled in his first book, the bestselling memoir Confessions of a Tax Collector: One Man's Tour of Duty Inside the IRS.
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In the Land of the Free
PW Talks with Andrew Ferguson.
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The Girl Behind the Wall
PW Talks to Danielle Ganek.
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Sealed & Delivered
PW Talks with Rick Yancey.
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Everyone Where I Grew Up Believed in Ghosts
Justin Evans's debut, A Good and Happy Child, takes a familiar concept—the young child haunted by a demon no one else can see—and infuses it with rare psychological depth. How did the plot for A Good and Happy Child originate? I grew up in a town very much like the one I describe in the novel, in West Virginia, in an environment where everyone believed in ghos...
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Dietary Dreaming
Think fat people could be thin if they really tried? Then Gina Kolata has news for you in Rethinking Thin.
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Miranda July Conquers The Short Story: A Web Exclusive Q & A
With the publication of No One Belongs Here More Than You, her first collection of stories, screenwriter, director, actor and performance artist Miranda July conquers what she calls "the last medium."
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Prison Blues: PW Talks with C.D. Wright
Poet Wright and photographer Deborah Luster visited three Louisiana prisons to produce a multimedia record of inmate life. One Big Self (Copper Canyon), is the poetic half of that collaboration.
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Can Hosseini Do It Again?
The Kite Runner author returns with second novel.
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Will Blog for Food
PW Talks with Clotilde Dusoulier
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A Straight Shooter
PW Talks with Ben Rehder.
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Author Says "No Thanks" to Tour
Novelist Karen Quinn figured her last author tour hadn't been very effective. So this time, she asked her publishers if she could stay home and use the cash on an online contest..
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Q & A with Cal Ripken Jr.
Earlier this year, Cal Ripken, Jr., the former Baltimore Orioles' shortstop known as baseball's "Ironman" for playing in 2,632 consecutive games, capped his phenomenal career with a first-ballot election to the Hall of Fame.