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Political Dirty Work: PW Talks with Mike Lawson
In Mike Lawson’s eighth Joe DeMarco thriller, House Odds, DeMarco has to get the grown daughter of his boss, former House Speaker John Mahoney, out of trouble.
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Human Drama: PW Talks with Aifric Campbell
Former Morgan Stanley managing director Aifric Campbell reflects on the financial crisis and what led her to create the world of a brilliant, burned-out banker in her new novel, On the Floor.
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Season of the Witchdoctor: PW Talks With Michael Stanley
Witchcraft-related murders are at the heart of Deadly Harvest, the pseudonymous Stanley’s fourth Botswana whodunit.
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The Accidental Food Writer: PW Talks With Julia Reed
New Orleans-based Reed’s But Mama Always Put Vodka in Her Sangria, Adventures in Eating, Drinking and Making Merry is rife with enticing recipes and equally appetizing anecdotes.
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You Think You’ll Live Forever: PW Talks with Ajit Varki
Biologist Ajit Varki, coauthor (with the late Danny Brower) of Denial: Self-Deception, False Beliefs and the Origins of the Human Mind, argues that the defiance of mortality is what makes us human.
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Q & A with Sara Zarr
In The Lucy Variations, Sara Zarr's fifth novel, 16-year-old Lucy has stepped away from her blossoming career as a concert pianist, and is struggling to redefine what role music will play in her life.
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Anthony Marra on Writing the Only Novel on the Chechen Wars
The author of A Constellation of Vital Phenomena talks about the inspiration for his novel.
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An Unseemly Emotion: PW Talks with Claire Messud
With The Woman Upstairs, Claire Messud boldly goes into territory more commonly embraced by her male counterparts.
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The Other Belgian Detective: PW Talks with Pieter Aspe
Belgian Insp. Pieter Van In makes his U.S. debut in Pieter Aspe’s The Square of Revenge. The series has already spawned bestsellers in Europe.
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Dark Origins: PW Talks with Elizabeth Kelly
In her devilishly witty, pulse-quickening second novel, The Last Summer of the Camperdowns, Elizabeth Kelly shadows the upper-crust Camperdown clan over the course of a summer in 1972 as they cope with a heinous crime committed too close to home.
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For Revenge’s Sake: PW Talks With Thane Rosenbaum
Rosenbaum, novelist and director of Fordham University’s Forum on Law, thinks there’s an epidemic underway, and in Payback: The Case for Revenge he argues that the legal system fails to fulfill a duty to citizens as avenger of wrongs, and that fictional revenge narratives feed a natural, healthy desire for revenge.
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Capitol Caper: PW Talks With Jason Stein and Patrick Marley
More Than They Bargained For, from Milwaukee Journal Sentinel reporters Stein and Marley, is an in-depth account of the controversy surrounding Wisconsin Governor Scott Walker’s first year in office.
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Billion Dollar Antlers: PW Talks With Al Cambronne
In Deerland, Cambronne, a writer and photographer from northwestern Wisconsin, examines the ecological impact of America’s multibillion-dollar deer hunting industry.
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Hell in a Very Cold Place: PW Talks with Mitchell Zuckoff
In Frozen in Time, Mitchell Zuckoff recounts the ordeal of a B-17 bomber crew stranded on the Greenland ice cap in 1942.
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Out Loud and Proud: PW Talks with Dan Savage
In American Savage: Insights, Slights, and Fights on Faith, Sex, Love, and Politics, outspoken sex columnist and gay-rights activist Dan Savage (The Kid) tells the world what’s wrong with it.
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Telling the Victims’ Stories: PW Talks with Robert Kolker
Reporter Robert Kolker examines the troubled lives and lurid ends of a quintet of call girls—possibly the victims of a serial killer (or killers)—in Lost Girls: An Unsolved American Mystery.
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The Ghost of History: PW Talks with Lauren Beukes
The survivor of a savage attack stalks a time-traveling serial killer in South African writer Lauren Beukes’s The Shining Girls.
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The Uncertainty Principle: PW Talks with Gabriel Roth
In Gabriel Roth’s elegant and keenly perceptive debut, The Unknowns, a nerdy software developer faces a steep learning curve when navigating his first real romantic relationship.
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Caroline Kennedy, Poetry Advocate
With her fourth anthology, Poems to Learn by Heart, editor Caroline Kennedy continues to champion the literary form.
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Q & A with Brent Hartinger
Having just self-published The Elephant of Surprise, the fourth book in his Russel Middlebrook series, Brent Hartinger is at the forefront of trends in self-publishing and gayYA fiction.
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