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Where the Sidewalk Ends: PW Talks with Julian Beever
The English artist takes us into his whimsical trompe d'oeil three-dimensional sidewalk chalk drawings in The Pavement Chalk Artist.
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Poor Babies: PW Talks with Paula Bomer
Paula Bomer's debut, Baby, is a collection of 10 ferocious stories about the pressures on married couples as they raise families.
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Like Mother Like Daughter: PW Talks with Lisa Scottoline and Francesca Scottoline Serritella
In their first-ever joint interview, bestselling novelist Scottoline and budding fiction writer Serritella dish about their second essay collection, My Nest Isn't Empty, It Just Has More Closet Space.
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A Healthy Culture of Suspicion: PW Talks with Peter James
Det. Supt. Roy Grace pursues a rapist with a thing for shoes in Peter James's Dead Like You, the sixth in his contemporary crime series set in Brighton, England.
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Building Bridges: PW Talks with Reza Aslan
Reza Aslan is the editor of Tablet & Pen: Literary Landscapes from the Modern Middle East, an enormous and impressive anthology of 20th-century Middle Eastern literature.
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Making Room for a New Addition: PW Talks with Helen Oxenbury and John Burningham
John Burningham and Helen Oxenbury are two of England’s most honored and beloved author/artists for children. They have been married for 46 years and between them they have created scores of picture books. But until now, they have never done a book together.
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Why I Write: Dave Zirin
James Baldwin once wrote, "America is a place devoted to the death of the paradox." He meant that this is a country most comfortable with putting people in easily identifiable boxes. That's why it becomes such a loaded question when someone asks you what you do for a living.
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Romance in the Rockies: PW Talks with Jo Goodman
Bestselling romance author Jo Goodman pairs up citified doctor Cole Monroe and tomboyish farmer Rhyne Abbot in Marry Me, set in a small Colorado town in 1884.
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The Monday Interview with Ethan Mordden
An interview with Ethan Mordden, whose The Guest List: How Manhattan Defined American Sophistication, from the Algonquin Round Table to Truman Capote's Ball will be published by St. Martin's.
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The Fame Monster: PW Talks with Tom Payne
Payne, former deputy literary editor of the Daily Telegraph, finds the Kardashian sisters' classical counterparts in Fame.
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High School Hoops: PW Talks with George Dohrmann
In Play Their Hearts Out, George Dohrmann spends eight years chronicling an AAU basketball team, its coach Joe Keller, and its star player, Demetrius Walker.
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Not CSI, Japan: PW Talks with I.J. Parker
I.J. Parker's The Masuda Affair is his seventh historical featuring Sugawara Akitada in 11th-century Japan.
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A Nice, Decent Guy: PW Talks with Steve Martin
Comedy legend Steve Martin has a new novel, An Object of Beauty, set in the New York City art world and offering a neat encapsulation of the end of an era.
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Idea Book: Steven Johnson
E-books have found themselves a passionate and articulate champion in Steven Johnson, the bestselling author of Everything Bad Is Good for You, The Ghost Map, and The Invention of Air.
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Family Secrets: PW Talks with Michele Norris
Michele Norris, host of NPR's All Things Considered and author of The Grace of Silence, talks about her Minneapolis upbringing and her family's Deep South roots.
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Why I Write: Elizabeth Marshall Thomas
The relationships we have with dogs seem simple enough and often are taken for granted. But these relationships can be deep and mysterious, and not at all simple.
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The Future of Death: PW Talks with Lois McMaster Bujold
After eight years, Bujold brings back beloved series hero Miles Vorkosigan in CryoBurn, an interplanetary adventure involving shady cryonics cartels.
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Swan Song Singers: PW Talks with Harold Bloom
Critic Harold Bloom's upcoming book, Till I End My Song: A Gathering of Last Poems is an anthology of various poets' final works, or works in which they apprehended death's finality, along with a comment on each by Bloom.
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Questioning Art: PW Talks with Frederic Tuten
Frederic Tuten interrogates his past and a changing world in Self-Portraits, his accomplished latest collection of stories. PW's review said, "Tuten's polished stories of beauty, longing, and loss are relatable, yet strange enough that they constantly pique."
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The Monday Interview with Rick Bass
An interview with Rick Bass, whose Nashville Chrome will be published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt.
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