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Loving Shakespeare
PW: How did you happen to write Chasing Shakespeares?
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Turning Kids On to Books
PW: What made you want to write How to Get Your Child to Love Reading?
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The Strongest Link
PW: First of all, congratulations! We heard you won $79,000 on The Weakest Link.
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A Far from Typical Life
One evening in early February, PW sat at the bedside of Laura Rothenberg in the apartment she shared with her boyfriend, Bryan Doerries, in downtown Manhattan. Rothenberg was close to death from complications resulting from a double lung transplant she had undergone in 2001, hoping to turn the tide on her cystic fibrosis.
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A Novelist Wonders About Jesus
PW: What led you to write A Serious Way of Wondering? What's the story behind it?
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Crime and Cops, Thai-Style
PW: Bangkok 8 describes a compelling instance of the Bangkok police force being linked to organized crime. Is this based on anything factual?
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Donnelly's Light Shines
Jennifer Donnelly has been making a bit of a splash in the book world lately.
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Writing Forensics
PW: This is the sixth book in the Temperance Brennan series, which means you have to face that gremlin that all serial novelists must face—how to keep their series fresh. What's your take on it?
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Moonstruck: Just One of Many Successes
PW: In your memoir, Ask Me Again Tomorrow, you say the book-writing process was difficult at times, because you were trying to define yourself for readers and realized that one of your life's main themes has been to defy definition. Do you think that by the end of the book you finally succeeded in defining yourself?
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An Early New York Disaster
PW: What drew you to the General Slocum disaster, which you've written about in Ship Ablaze?
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The Quest for a Blue Rose and Other Unexpected Gifts
PW: In The Probable Future, your 16th adult novel, each descendant of Rebecca Sparrow, a young woman drowned for witchcraft in colonial Massachusetts, has a supernatural gift that changes her life. What do you want to convey about the nature of gifts?
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Investigatory Fiction
PW: Is Bunker 13 your first book? If so, what made you decide to write it? Your press kit suggests one particular story you covered for Tehelka triggered this.
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An Up-to-Date Fairy Land
PW: The War of the Flowers is indisputably fantasy, but this is an unusual fairyland, pseudo-technological, with taxis, trains, even unions. Tad Williams: That's the fun of it. You set yourself up with a set of problems and then you have to make the thing work. You can say this modern fairyland works on magic, but you still have to have some kind of a system.
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Babes in NASA-land
PW: How did you first learn about the women in the space program you write about in The Mercury 13
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Parenting by E-mail
PW: When did you realize you wanted to gather your experiences into Following Foo?
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Golden Blonde
PW: Fifty books and still going?
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A Necklace of Candy Memories
PW interviewed Liftin by phone two weeks after she moved with her husband, a former writer for David Letterman, to L.A. Both are pursuing careers as writers for television.
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John vs. Thomas?
PW: Why did you write Beyond Belief?
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Grace Under Pressure
PW: What was the most surprising thing you learned while writing Once Upon a Time: Behind the Fairy Tale of Princess Grace and Prince Rainier?
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Baseball and the World
PW: How did the writing process for October Men compare to that of your other books? Roger Kahn: It all tends to be a pattern of two to three years of work. All my books tend to have great numbers of people in them, and you have to get to know people before you write about them.
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