Authors, Author Interviews, Author Profiles, Why I Write, Obituaries

Sex, Lies, and Virtual Reality: PW Talks with Michael Olson
Strange Flesh, the first novel from former software designer Michael Olson, is a thought-provoking, near-future thriller about the intersection of computer technology, online gaming, and human sexuality. more...

My Friend the Book: PW Talks with Bill Cosby Bill Cosby’s I Didn’t Ask to Be Born (but I’m Glad I Was) includes the beloved entertainer’s thoughts about his childhood friends, his family, and... erectile dysfunction. more...		PW's Best Books of 2011 Read all about our top 140 books of the year with our interactive guide, featuring our reviews, author interviews and more!

suvir saran Saran’s first cookbook, Indian Home Cooking (Clarkson Potter, 2004), focused on home-style Indian recipes, and his second, American Masala (Clarkson Potter, 2007), livened up American favorites with Indian flavors. more...		Poker Players and Fishermen: PW Talks with Owen Laukkanen Owen Laukkanen, poker journalist–turned–thriller writer, makes his fiction debut with The Professionals. more...

Girl Gone Wild Cheryl Strayed’s memoir, Wild (Knopf, Mar.) proves she’s fearless: in life and in her writing. This is a woman who once wrote a personal essay about her heroin habit for Doubletake, and on the sexual infidelity that undermined her first marriage in the Sun. In Wild, Strayed chronicles her three-month solo 1995 hike along 1,100 miles of the Pacific Crest Trail. more...		Tough, Noble, and Cuddly: PW Talks with Lori Foster Lori Foster’s A Perfect Storm (Reviews, p. 36; pub date, Apr.) extends her bestselling romantic suspense series about covert operatives and the women they love. more...

A Modern-Day Almshouse: PW Talks with Victoria Sweet With God’s Hotel (Reviews, Nov. 7; pub date, Apr.), Victoria Sweet describes a unique style of patient care at Laguna Honda, the nation’s last almshouse. more...		Revisiting Revelation: PW Talks with Elaine Pagels Princeton University religion professor Elaine Pagels, who helped bring into the public eye the biblical also-rans—the Gnostic Gospels that didn’t make it into the Christian canon—takes a fresh look at the provocative Book of Revelation (Reviews, p. 47; pub date Mar. 6). more...

Interviews

Paris in Love: PW Talks with Eloisa James

By Amy Boaz 02/10/2012 @ 07:00PM

Eloisa James, the pen name of novelist and Fordham University professor Mary Bly, takes readers to the City of Light in Paris in Love.

Profiles

Firsts in Fiction

By Gwenda Bond 02/10/2012 @ 07:00PM

Debut Novels

Debut novelists can be counted on to bring fresh voices, diverse story lines, and singular characters.

Profiles

Sacré Bleu!: Christopher Moore

By Claire Kirch 02/10/2012 @ 07:00PM

Walking through San Francisco’s Legion of Honor Museum’s impressionist art collection and a special exhibit on Camille Pissarro with Christopher Moore, who’s as irrepressible in person as he is in his novels, the conversation ricochets from thoughtful comments about the paintings on the walls to laugh-out-loud anecdotes about the artists—including Pissarro—who populate Moore’s 13th novel, Sacré Bleu: A Comedy d’Art (Morrow, Apr.).

Interviews

Talking to Animals: PW Talks with Marcel Beyer

By Noah Marcel Sudarsky 02/10/2012 @ 07:00PM

The German poet and novelist Marcel Beyer considers avian preoccupations, history, and the dubious nature of memory in his new novel, Kaltenburg.

Interviews

From Kuwait to Camelot: PW Talks with Tony Hays

By Lenny Picker 02/10/2012 @ 07:00PM

Tony Hays has taken a circuitous route from teacher (and intelligence operative) to author of The Stolen Bride, the fourth in his Arthurian mystery series.

Why I Write

Why I Write...

By Ted Allen 02/10/2012 @ 07:00PM

I mean, when it didn’t work out with the flying trapeze, credit-default swaps, or Sunglass Hut, I had to do something. Writing seemed as good as anything.

Profiles

Speaking in Tongues: Elizabeth Little

By Scott Martelle 02/03/2012 @ 07:00PM

Imagine, for a moment, that lutefisk had the zip of gumbo, and Norwegian folk songs had the verve of zydeco. Were that the case, Minot, N.D., might have had a marketing advantage over New Orleans, and the buzz phrase for partying would be la de gode tider rull instead of laissez les bons temps rouler.

Interviews

Sex, Lies, and Virtual Reality: PW Talks with Michael Olson

By Ken Salikof 02/03/2012 @ 07:00PM

Strange Flesh, the first novel from former software designer Michael Olson, is a thought-provoking, near-future thriller about the intersection of computer technology, online gaming, and human sexuality.

Interviews

Pernicious Thought Contagions: PW Talks with Caitlín R. Kiernan

By Charlene Brusso 01/27/2012 @ 07:00PM

Kiernan has established herself as an author of compelling, sometimes brutal, dark fantasy. Her latest novel, The Drowning Girl: A Memoir (Reviews, Jan. 16), about a schizophrenic young woman obsessed with a painting, is a chillingly effective mix of psychological thriller and ghost story.

Interviews

Slow Ride: PW Talks with Karen Thompson Walker

By Liesl Schwabe 01/27/2012 @ 07:00PM

In Karen Thompson Walker’s debut novel, The Age of Miracles (Reviews, this issue, p. 30; pub date, June), an 11-year-old girl wakes up one morning to the news that the earth’s rotation is slowing.

Explosive Eighteen: A Stephanie Plum Novel	Audio Fiction
Killing Lincoln (unabr.)	Audio Nonfiction
The Son of Neptune (The Heroes of Olympus #2)	Children's Fiction
Elf on the Shelf	Children's Picture Book
Hunger Games	Children's Series & Tie-ins
Blue Exorcist, Volume 3	Graphic Novels
Private: #1 Suspect	Hardcover Fiction
Ameritopia: The Unmaking of America	Hardcover Nonfiction
The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo	Mass Market Paper
Extremely Loud & Incredibly Close	Trade Paper