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PW Talks with Harvey Fierstein
The Sissy Duckling, a variation on the tale of The Ugly Duckling, is gay-rights activist and Torch Song Trilogy author Fierstein's first children's book.
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PW Talks with Morgan Entrekin
PW: You've published two of Richard Flanagan's earlier books, but what made you decide to do Gould's Book of Fish in such an original—and expensive—format?
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PW Talks with Andrew Weil
PW: How did the idea for The Healthy Kitchen originate? Were you interested in collaborating on a cookbook?
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PW Talks with Thomas Moore
PW: What have you been doing in the 10 years since Care of the Soul was published? Why has it taken this long to write the companion volume?
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PW Talks with Coleen Salley
Salley, storyteller and professor emerita of children's literature at the University of New Orleans, has written her first book, a retelling of the Three Billy Goats Gruff, set on the banks of the Mississippi.
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PW Talks with Brian Littlefair
PW: What (or who) are the "parasites" to which you refer in Desert Burial?BL: Those parasites I see as strongman guys—they have guns, and you don't. To flesh out the book's near-future setting, I took three trends and let them all continue past the point where something has to give. Those three trends are disarmament of the world powers; instability in Africa; and thirdly, bad guys ...
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PW Talks with Nelson Bond
PW: As a veteran SF/fantasy writer, you haven't published for decades. Now Arkham House is issuing your story collection, The Far Side of Nowhere. How did that come about?
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PW Talks with John Brockman
PW: You've been a performance artist and author. You've hung out at The Factory with Andy Warhol and Bob Dylan. You've even marketed feminine hygiene products. How did you become a book agent?
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PW Talks with Raffi
Raffi, one of the most successful artists in the children's recording world and recognized as a tireless children's advocate, recently celebrated 25 years in the children's music industry.
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PW Talks with Laura Blumenfeld
PW: Your book Revenge: A Story of Hope chronicles the year you spent looking for the Palestinian terrorist who shot and wounded your father in 1986; it's part memoir, part confession and part study of the nature of revenge. How and when did you decide to undertake such a project?
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PW Talks with Allen Say
Say, the Caldecott-winning creator of Grandfather's Journey, was born in Japan in 1937 and moved with his family to the United States in 1953. In July 2000, when his own work was honored with an exhibition at the Japanese American National Museum in Los Angeles, he had an opportunity to view the museum's exhibition on the WWII internment camps in the U.
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PW Talks with Keith Miles
PW: Though you're best known by your pseudonym Edward Marston, you're really Keith Miles, originally from Wales. Have you written much under your own name?
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PW Talks with Debra Rienstra
PW: In Great with Child: Reflections on Faith, Fullness, and Becoming a Mother, you chronicle your experiences during your third pregnancy. How did the book emerge from that pregnancy?
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PW Talks with Patrick Wright
PW: In Tank, you go to great lengths to set the stage for the tank's origins in the early 20th century. What do you see as some of its forerunners in the 19th century or earlier?
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PW Talks with Laurie R. King
PW: You've used very weighty "hooks" for several of your mystery novels: the position of women in the leadership of the early Christian church; feminine aspects of God; the character of the Fool; and, in Justice Hall, the summary execution of many British soldiers during World War I. Do those hooks lead to the stories or is it the other way around?
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PW Talks with Peter Mayer
PW met with Peter Mayer, CEO and president of the Overlook Press, at Overlook's new offices in Manhattan's SoHo neighborhood, to talk about his forthcoming publication of Robert Littell's The Company.
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PW Talks with the Ethicist
PW met Randy Cohen, who writes "The Ethicist" column for the New York Times Magazine, on Manhattan's Upper West Side. Over a cup of tea, the lanky Cohen (who looks nothing like the cartoon character that accompanies his column) spoke about his book The Good, the Bad & the Difference.
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PW Talks with Joe Klein
PW: What was it like writing a book [The Natural] about an administration and politics from the center of the storm?
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PW Talks with David W. Shaw
PW: The events of your book The Sea Shall Embrace Them, occurred more than 150 years ago, yet the characters vividly come to life and the story is uncannily dynamic—a kind of dramatic interpolation of the events. Had you anticipated taking this approach from the start?
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PW Talks with Jimmy Breslin
PW: What got you started writing The Short Sweet Dream of Eduardo Gutiérrez, about the death of an unknown Mexican laborer?
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