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Another Hemingway Picks Up the Pen
PW: Why did you write Finding My Balance?
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Feminist Revolutionary Comes Down to Earth
PW: What motivated you to write Rock My Soul?
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Bringing Out the Best
PW: This is the third volume of Best Christian Writing. Where do you find the essays, and how do they qualify for the collection?
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On the Trail of Jack the Ripper
PW: Why did you write Portrait of a Killer?
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Unexpected Journeys
PW met Geoff Dyer at the Gramercy Hotel, which he admited "has seen better days." A short walk to a nearby Cosi coffee bar and he settled down to talk about his new collection of work.
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There's a New Book in the Neighborhood
PW spoke by telephone with Fred Rogers, who is as patient, thoughtful and kind in conversation as he appears on TV.
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Bawdy Shakespearean Comes Clean
PW: Your first three Pleasures books were published by Dell in hardcover, but Duchess in Love is being published by Avon as a mass market paperback. Why did you switch publishers?
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Grafton Finally Meets the Face Behind the Voice
Author Grafton and audiobook reader Kaye met for the first time on a recent afternoon in New York. Over Earl Grey tea and cucumber sandwiches at the St. Regis Hotel, PW spoke with the women about Q Is for Quarry, Kinsey Milhone and how they detest abridged versions.
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Novel(ist's) Advice: Write What You Know
PW: In writing your memoir [Kitchen Privileges] did you have difficulty recalling your childhood?
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A Frankenstein for Our Time
PW: Why did you pick nanotechnology gone amok as the subject matter for Prey?
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And You Thought The Gong Show Was a Hit...
Two decades after its initial publication, TV legend Chuck Barris's wild autobiography, Confessions of a Dangerous Mind, is now a major motion picture. Was Barris, the outlandish host of The Gong Show, also a CIA assassin, as he claims in his book? PW lunched with Barris at the Friar's Club in New York, while occasionally looking over both shoulders.
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Dirt Beneath the Big Dig
PW: What drew you to write about the Big Dig, a real-life urban renewal project in Boston?
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Magic Man Conjures Book
PW met with David Blaine in an unused Random House office in midtown Manhattan. The magician, who's smaller than he looks on TV and speaks with a New York drawl, engaged us in a generous, far-ranging interview capped by his performing three tricks, one with a wristwatch and two with cards, that left us speechless with wonder.
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20 Years on the Mean Streets
McMillan is the lone wolf behind Dennis McMillan Publications, specializing in noir and hard-boiled limited editions since 1983. Publishers Weekly: Why does Measures of Poison remind me of Hank Williams Jr. singing about all his rowdy friends? Dennis McMillan: Because these writers are my friends, pretty good friends, at that.
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A Publishing Career Ain't Over 'Til It's Over
Al Silverman retired in 1998 from 30 years in publishing, first as CEO of Book-of-the-Month Club and then editor and publisher of Viking, and now divides his time between an apartment in Manhattan and a house in Westchester, N.Y. He spoke with PW by phone about his new book, It's Not Over 'Til It's Over.
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A Life Filled with Tails
PW: What prompted you to write an autobiography? Dick King-Smith: About four years ago, I was having lunch with my literary agent, and he said, "You know, it's high time you wrote your memoirs." I said, "Oh, come on, that's self-indulgent rubbish." But he pressured me a bit, and then I started and it was rather fun.
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Bridging the Gap from Sci-Fi to Truth
PW: What was the impetus for writing Tomorrow Now?
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A Farmer's Almanac from the New York Times
Unlike the other sharp-suited writers swirling around him at the offices of the New York Times, Klinkenborg arrives for work in a faded button-down shirt, jeans and dusty brown Bludstone work boots. Though he wouldn't turn heads on the average New York street, as an editorial board member of the Times, he's one of a dozen people responsible for formulating the newspaper's national agenda.
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Cover Girl Discusses Life as a Pretzel
PW met Turlington at a Manhattan restaurant to discuss her new book, Living Yoga.
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Psychiatric Sleuthing
G.H. Ephron is the pseudonym of journalist Hallie Ephron Touger and forensic psychologist Dr. Donald Davidoff.
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