Writers to Watch Fall 2017: Anticipated Debuts
The big debut fiction of the season. more...
7 Reasons Why Henry David Thoreau Still Matters Today
Laura Dassow Walls, author of 'Henry David Thoreau: A Life,' discusses Thoreau's legacy and why he still matters today. more...
Under the California Sun with Chiara Barzini
In her debut novel, 'Things That Happened Before the Earthquake,' Chiara Barzini tells the bittersweet story of an Italian teenager adjusting to life in 1990s Los Angeles. more...and more.
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ProfilesSpotlight on Julie Lythcott-Haims
In her searing memoir, 'Real American,' Lythcott-Haims, the child of a black man and a white woman, reckons with mixed-race identity and America's black-and-white view of its citizens (Sponsored)
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Profiles
In My Own Words: The Emotional Fallout from War
In 'Shooting Ghosts,' photographer Finbarr O’Reilly and his coauthor, retired Marine Sgt. Thomas J. Brennan, explore how combat affects lives on and off the battlefield.
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Profiles
How My Experiences as a Psychotherapist Helped My Writing Career
A.F. Brady's debut novel, 'The Blind,' echoes her real life experience working in the mental health field across New York City.
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BookLife
Indie Author Finds Success Hitting the Festival Circuit
An aggressive marketing campaign that focuses on festivals, including many gatherings with little or no direct connection to books, has paid off for indie author Raymond Depew.
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Interviews
The Death of One Man Is a Tragedy: PW Talks with Deon Meyer
The South African author combines a whodunit with a chillingly plausible end-of-the-world scenario in 'Fever' (Atlantic Monthly, Sept.).
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Interviews
The Year that Created Modernism: PW Talks with Bill Goldstein
In 'The World Broke in Two: Virginia Woolf, T.S. Eliot, D.H. Lawrence, E.M. Forster, and the Year that Changed Literature' (Holt, Aug.), a close examination of four literary lives.
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BookLife
Smashwords Self-Published Bestsellers List, May 2017
Abbi Glines’s romance 'Boys South of the Mason Dixon' topped the list of bestselling titles on the Smashwords platform for the month of May.
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Interviews
The Eternal Town Square: PW Talks with Gabrielle Zevin
In 'Young Jane Young' (Algonquin, Aug.), a politically ambitious intern has an affair with the married congressman she works for. It becomes a national scandal that derails her life, but, tellingly, not his.
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Profiles
A Life-Changing Trauma: PW Talks with Winnie M. Li
For her first novel, 'Dark Chapter' (Polis, Sept.), Li draws on her own experience as a victim of sexual violence.
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Profiles
Attica Locke on Murder and Race in East Texas
Attica Locke’s fourth mystery, 'Bluebird, Bluebird' (Little Brown, Sept.), introduces black Texas Ranger Darren Mathews as he investigates a murder in a small east Texas town.
