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Sunshine and Dark, Dark Shadows
PW asks Robin McKinley, "Sunshine is a big departure for you. What attracted you to a vampire novel?"
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Kill 100 to Save 1,000?
PW asks William T. Vollman, "Did you set out to write a seven-volume opus, or did you start out at a different scale?"
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The Secret Lives of Children
PW asks Peggy Rathmann, "The Day the Babies Crawled Away (Putnam) does not look or sound like your previous work in picture books such as Officer Buckle and Gloria. Did you start with a piece of rhyme or with the silhouettes?"
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Time Out with the Man
PW asks Michael Hogan, "For a novel written by a lawyer about a lawyer, Man Out of Time seems to have nothing to do with law. Why?"
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Orthodox Sleuthing
PW asks Rochelle Krich, "Do you think your vantage point as an Orthodox Jew provides you with either an advantage or a disadvantage?"
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The Moral Self Within: PW Talks with Joyce Carol Oates
PW asks Joyce Carol Oates, "What prompted you to start writing specifically for young adults?"
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Hi Ho, Hi Ho
PW asks Gregory Maguire, "You are best known for Wicked, your first adult novel (1995), which used themes from The Wizard of Oz. What were you doing before that book?"
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Keeping America Engaged
PW asks Madeleine Albright, "What prompted you to write your memoirs?"
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Slaves and Masters: All in the Family
How did you turn to George Washington, in An Imperfect God, to further look at race in America?
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A Vaudevillian Life
You've written a biography of civil rights leader Adam Clayton Powell Jr., and in your new book, In Black and White, you've written about Sammy Davis Jr. Why Sammy?
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For Tribeca Characters, a Slow Recovery
In Tribeca Blues, your protagonist, Terry Orr, comes to some striking realizations about people he thought he knew well. How did you come up with that scheme?
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A Gothic Story About Loss in the Suburbs
The Night Country is dedicated to Ray Bradbury, has blurbs by Stephen King and Peter Straub, includes three characters who are ghosts and is set on Halloween. It sounds as if we're in the realm of the gothic.
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In SoHo, a Little Bit of Paris
PW met McNally, who owns four New York restaurants, on a recent afternoon at Balthazar.
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The ABCs of Women's History
Coauthor of six books for adults, Second Lady Lynne Cheney published her first children's book, America: A Patriotic Primer, also illustrated by Robin Preiss Glasser, in 2002. Their new title, A Is for Abigail: An Almanac of Amazing American Women, follows that same alphabet-book format.
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It's All in a Song
Why did you decide now to write this book, Goodbye, Little Rock and Roller?
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In Daniel Pearl's Footsteps
How concerned are you that, when it comes to violence against Westerners, this isn't the last we'll hear from Pakistan?
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In Shackleton's Footsteps
How did you write No Horizon Is So Far: A Historic Journey Across Antarctica? Did you keep journals during your expedition?
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L'Amour, Expat Style
L'Affaire is a natural successor to Le Divorce and Le Mariage. How did you come to write them?
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Two Days in 1967
Ira Zarov, like David Maraniss, was an undergraduate at the University of Wisconsin in 1967 and was present at many of the events of October 18 described by Maraniss in They Marched into Sunlight .
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The Blue Danube
Why did you choose to base your first cookbook, East of Paris, on dishes from your second restaurant, Danube, rather than on dishes from Bouley, your first restaurant?
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