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Freedom of Choice: PW Talks with Louise Kuo Habakus and Mary Holland
In Vaccine Epidemic: The Ethics, Law and Science in Support of Vaccination Choice, editors Habakus and Holland advocate for an end to government-mandated vaccination.
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Crusader for Islam: PW Talks with Deborah Baker
In The Convert (Reviews, Feb. 21), Deborah Baker unravels the life of Margaret Marcus, an American woman who, as Maryam Jameelah, became one of the pre-eminent voices of Islamic revivalism in the early 1960s.
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A Visitor to the World of the Past: PW Talks with Stephanie Pintoff
Edgar-winner Stefanie Pintoff delivers her third mystery set in early 20th-century New York City, Secret of the White Rose (Reviews, Mar. 7).
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Understanding Necessary Suffering: Richard Rohr
As a Franciscan priest, inspirational speaker, spiritual director, and author of more than 20 books, Richard Rohr guides thousands of people in their quest to lead more balanced lives. But he acknowledges he hasn't quite perfected the art himself.
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Paretsky Defends Arts Funding in Awards Speech
Even though newly-elected Kansas governor Sam Brownback was a no-show at the Governor’s Arts Award ceremony after recently eliminating all funding for the arts in the state, bestselling mystery-thriller author Sara Paretsky was there and had a message for him: the arts have always been, and continue to be, vital to people's lives.
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Rivers of Oil and Blood: PW Talks with Helon Habila
Helon Habila examines the corruption, greed, and violence choking the Niger delta in his new novel, Oil on Water.
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Game Changer? A Talk with Jane McGonigal
Last month, McGonigal published Reality Is Broken: Why Games Make Us Better and How They Can Change the World. Just before SXSW kicked off, PW caught up with McGonigal to talk about who gamers are (you might be surprised) and the implications of gaming's swift rise for publishing.
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The Monday Interview with Ed Breslin
An interview with publishing veteran Ed Breslin, author of Drinking with Miss Dutchie, which is being published by St. Martin’s/Thomas Dunne Books.
PW: How would you categorize your book. Is it a memoir? A recovery book? Or a dog book? Who is its audience, and who might benefit from reading it?
EB: The book is all three -- an amalgam. It’s “my story,” to be simplistic, and that combines elements of all three.
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All Lies: PW Talks with Arthur Phillips
Arthur Phillips wrote a Shakespeare play. Or maybe a fictional version of his father wrote it. Or maybe it's the real deal. Read all about it in The Tragedy of Arthur, his inspired latest.
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Why I Write: Rick Steves
We all have pastimes. I don't knit or follow sports. I don't do crossword puzzles. I can't play cribbage. But I do write. I journal (just for myself) when I'm going through tough personal times.
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Three Questions for Paul Theroux
In The Tao of Travel: Enlightenments from Lives on the Road (Houghton Mifflin Harcourt), prolific travel writer Paul Theroux collects insights from other writers, sources he deems "real and reliable travelers—not the sort who boast about their sunny experience in Happyland." We spoke with Theroux about his new book.
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Drunk, Liquored up, and In Disguise: PW Talks with Michael Crummey
Acclaimed Poet and novelist Michael Crummey won Canada's Commonwealth prize for his latest novel, Galore, which chronicles a century of stories, superstitions, strange afflictions, vengeance, and love among the families of a fictional Newfoundland town, Paradise Deep.
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PW Talks with Franny Billingsley
Franny Billingsley, a former bookseller, is the author of three much praised novels: Well Wished, The Folk Keeper, and, most recently, Chime. We spoke to the author about her two careers, her writing process, and her new novel.
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The Lure of Gold: PW Talks with Howard Blum
Three very different men in the 1897 Klondike Gold Rush anchor Howard Blum's tale of the last frontier, The Floor of Heaven.
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A Critic's Own Fictions: PW Talks with Louis Bayard
In The School of Night, Bayard crafts a complex thriller centered on an obscure Elizabethan society of poets and scientists.
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The Right to Question: PW Talks with Stephen Carter
The Yale Law Professor and best-selling author re-examines the principles of Just War to ask hard questions about the current U.S. policy, practices, and president in his latest book The Violence of Peace: America's Wars in the Age of Obama.
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Q & A with Casey Scieszka and Steven Weinberg
In 2006, recent college graduates Casey Scieszka and Steven Weinberg launched a year-and-a-half long international adventure, to Beijing, Shanghai, Vietnam, Laos, Thailand, and Mali.
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In Chile, Underground, Against the Odds: 'PW' Talks with Jonathan Franklin
If you watched 60 Minutes last night, sandwiched between Revolution in Egypt and Lady Gaga, was a story on the 33 Chilean miners rescued last summer against all odds. Today, Penguin publishes 33 Men: Inside the Miraculous Survival and Dramatic Rescue of the Chilean Miners by veteran journalist Jonathan Franklin. PW caught up with Franklin to talk about his gripping account of one of most incredible survival stories this side of Greek mythology.
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In Cold Blood: PW Talks with Stephen Singular
Stephen Singular, author of The Wichita Divide (Reviews, Jan. 31), discusses the killing of abortion provider Dr. George Tiller and the recent Tucson shooting.
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The Prosecutor: PW Talks with Francisco Goldman
In Say Her Name, Francisco Goldman tells the fictionalized story of his late wife, Aura Estrada, who died suddenly in 2007.
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