05/18/2012 @ 07:00PM
Tracie Peterson: Inspired and Inspiring and more
05/18/2012 @ 07:00PM
The Dublin office of John Banville—novelist, screenwriter, critic—is where he writes the literary fiction he’s famed for, Booker Prize–winning The Sea (Knopf, 2005) and The Infinities (Knopf, 2010), and more recently, under the pen name of Benjamin Black, the Dr. Quirk mysteries, which are becoming as popular in America as they are in Banville’s native Ireland.
05/11/2012 @ 07:00PM
In 1969, Peter Lovesey’s mystery fan wife, Jax, pointed out a notice to her husband that read: “Macmillan and Panther Books announce a First Crime Novel Competition open to all nationals of the United Kingdom, Commonwealth and the Republics of Eire and South Africa.” Lovesey, a teacher at a technical college, was reluctant to respond although he did have some background in the genre.
05/08/2012 @ 12:00AM
When no Canadian publisher was willing to take on journalist Jan Wong’s book criticizing her former newspaper, she had to self-publish.
05/04/2012 @ 07:00PM
Stephen Graham Jones has taught creative writing at the University of Colorado in Boulder for four years, and while he can find his office, he’s not sure of the address. An apt metaphor for a writer who has created a narrator in his latest novel, Growing Up Dead in Texas (MP Publishing, June), who is ready to take you to a wrapped-up conclusion, but not quite sure how to get you there.
04/20/2012 @ 07:00PM
Richard Ford leaves Frank Bascombe -- and his longtime publishers -- behind for his highly anticipated new novel, "Canada."
04/13/2012 @ 07:00PM
Alison Bechdel—creator of the comic strip Dykes to Watch Out For and author of the lauded 2006 graphic memoir Fun Home and now the new biocomic Are You My Mother?—doesn’t know what to call herself. “I know I’m a cartoonist. The drawing is completely inextricable from my writing,”she says from her home in Vermont. “I do feel, since Fun Home came out, I’ve had to sort of reimagine myself a little bit.”
03/30/2012 @ 07:00PM
“This was not the planned book,” Alyson Hagy says of her third novel and seventh book, Boleto (Graywolf, May). “I was working on another novel and sitting in a lecture and this book just came to me,” she says, about remembering an encounter she once had with a ranch hand.
03/23/2012 @ 07:00PM
In honor of National Poetry Month, here are four poets to watch
Some of this year’s best poets are the newest. PW talked to three poets publishing their debut volumes this year, and one whose highly anticipated second collection will appear.
03/16/2012 @ 07:00PM
Anouk Markovits never intended to write about the Satmar Hasidic community in which she grew up, but then came 9/11, and Markovits thought, “I’ve had personal experience with fundamentalist environments.” Still, writing about that world didn’t come easily. Whether fiction or memoir, most books set in these environments are written by and about those who, like Markovits, have left, and that wasn’t the story she wanted to tell. Which raised the question: “Could I possibly write a book about the people who stayed?”
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