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Patrick O'Brian: Sailing Upon Ancient Seas
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Fall 1999 Flying Starts
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PW: Bob Shacochis: Our Man in Haiti
It seems only fitting that an interview with Bob Shacochis should begin over a meal. Although he's best known for such fiction as Easy in the Islands (1985) and Swimming in the Volcano (1993), readers of his "Dining In" columns for GQ magazine (collected in Domesticity, 1994) know that Shacochis is as passionate about creative cooking as he is about creative writing.
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PW: Jay McInerney: N.Y. Confidential
Jay McInerney's first night back in America begins at Elio's, his neighborhood watering hole, with a negroni straight up, a cigarette and what the narrator of McInerney's first novel (speaking to himself) called "the most shameful of your addictions" -- a perusal of the New York Post.
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PW: Mike Davis: Flirting With Disaster
PW Home Bestsellers Subscribe Search Interview Mike Davis: Flirting With Disaster -- 8/31/98 Mike Davis lives in a trim one-story house on a tranquil street in middle-class residential Pasadena. The onetime truck driver and current MacArthur fellow, who says he couldn't even compose a letter until he was 30, shuffles amiably across the porch to extend his hand in greeting to PW. ...
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Lorrie Moore: Flipping Death the Bird
Try to be something, anything else," Lorrie Moore urged would-be writers in her debut short-story collection, Self-Help, published by Knopf in 1985.
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PW: Edwidge Danticat: A Bitter Legacy Revisited
Ask Edwidge Danticat too personal a question and the soft-spoken 29-year-old writer becomes flustered, nose scrunched in distress, polite smile suddenly frozen.
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PW: Andrea Barrett: Images of Science Past
In her own way, Rochester resident Andrea Barrett has become a leading light of the image industry.
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PW: James Chace: Policy With Panache
In 1983, James Chace journeyed to Central America, sending back lengthy dispatches to the New York Review of Books on a region ravaged by civil war.
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PW: Allegra Goodman: A Community Apart
Meeting Allegra Goodman in person is a bit disconcerting.
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PW: Peggy Rathmann: Opening Doors with Pictures
On a hilltop in Presidio Heights, a tranquil neighborhood far removed from the hustle and bustle of downtown San Francisco, picture book artist Peggy Rathmann lives and works in a townhouse filled with skylights.
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PW: Ron Rosenbaum: The Quest for Hitler
In nearly 30 years as a magazine journalist, Ron Rosenbaum has made something of a specialty of sketching whole universes of obsession in 10,000 to 15,000 words.
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PW: Richard North Patterson: The Comeback Candidate
Let the record reflect that Richard North Patterson does not think of himself as another Scott Turow (though both have written entertaining, character-driven thrillers filled with dramatic courtroom confrontations); he doesn't like being weighed against commercial suspense writers (at least those whose work he views as "all story with no characters or ideas"); and he's definitely not James Patterson (the comparison to whom still confounds the 51-year-old lawyer-cum-writer).
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PW: Kim Stanley Robinson: Gotterdammerung on Ice
No road cuts through Village Homes, the Davis, Calif., housing community where Kim Stanley Robinson lives. After parking on the perimeter, it's necessary to trek in on foot, past suburban homes, wood frame houses tiled in the light pastels favored in sunny climates.
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PW: Roxana Robinson: Old Money, New Families
Roxana Robinson lives on the southern edge of the territory she has claimed for her own in fiction: New York City's Upper East Side, residential headquarters of the nation's WASP elite.
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PW: Robert Lacey: Hooked on Glamour
For a man who cheerfully admits his seduction by the world of wealth and class, Robert Lacey is looking decidedly casual when he meets PW at his elegant home on the fringes of London's Belgravia district.
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PW: Daniel Menaker: The Divided Self
Mondays at 10 a.m., under routine circumstances, Random House editor Daniel Menaker should be tearing through meetings and correspondence in his glass-and-steel office at 201 East 50th Street with all the verve of a former Swarthmore soccer team captain who for 25 years edited fiction and nonfiction at the New Yorker.
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PW: Stewart O'Nan: American Pastorals
Stewart O'Nan, a writer who relies on his sense of place, is fighting a reluctant battle against real estate.
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PW: Gary Kinder: After The Gold Rush
In his 1973 manifesto, The New Journalism, Tom Wolfe describes the old-time hack as showing up at the theater just in time for the curtain to open and going home right after the show to write the story.
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