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Why I Write: Patricia Wells
I remember as if it happened yesterday. I was 10 years old, in third grade, and standing at the blackboard at Little Flower School in Milwaukee, Wis. Sister Clotidus had asked each of us to write what we wanted to be when we grew up.
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Good at Cooking, and That's Okay: PW Talks with Gabrielle Hamilton
In Blood, Bones, and Butter (reviewed on p. 47), chef Gabrielle Hamilton recounts her meandering life and gives foodies a dose of tough love.
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Lawless and Clark: PW Talks with Marcia Clark
Marcia Clark, the former Los Angeles prosecutor from the O.J. Simpson trial, makes her fiction debut with Guilt by Association (Reviews, Jan. 31), featuring her alter ego, Assistant DA Rachel Knight.
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Q & A with Dan Yaccarino
We spoke with Dan Yaccarino about his new picture book, All the Way to America, which traces his family’s history from Sorrento, Italy, to New York City.
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Lost and Found: PW Talks with Russ Colchamiro
A chance encounter between a budding writer and a beloved comic book artist reveals one way to push the self-publishing envelope. A PW Select Q&A.
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Against All Odds: PW Talks with Gayle Tzemach Lemmon
In The Dressmaker of Khair Khana (Reviews, Jan. 10), Gayle Tzemach Lemmon tells the story of Kamila Sediqi, an Afghan dressmaker who used her business skills to keep her family and her community together.
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Exploring the Edge of the Fantasy Map: PW Talks with Patrick Rothfuss
Patrick Rothfuss stormed onto the epic fantasy scene in 2007 with The Name of the Wind, an instant hit and bestseller. In The Wise Man's Fear, he adds depth to his already rich world as retired hero Kvothe continues narating his life story.
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The Googlization of Books
There have been a few popular books in recent years detailing Google's ascent in the digital world, notably Ken Auletta's Googled: The End of the World as We Know It and Jeff Jarvis's What Would Google Do. But there is another story, says author and media scholar Siva Vai-dhyanathan.
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Tibet: A Region in the Mind: Tibet: A Region in the Mind
With his mother's death the catalyst, Colin Thubron travels To a Mountain in Tibet (Reviews, Dec. 13) to one of the holiest Hindu sites.
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The Poet as Hero: PW Talks with Leila Aboulela
Leila Aboulela turns tragedy into triumph in Lyrics Alley, her dazzling new novel inspired by the life of her uncle, the late Sudanese poet Hassan Awad Aboulela.
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Q & A with Judy Blundell
With Strings Attached, Judy Blundell has to follow her own tough act: her first foray into YA, What I Saw and How I Lied, won the 2008 National Book Award. She spoke to PW about her inspiration, and why one of her 39 Clues collaborators may still not be speaking to her.
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The Trail of Toys: PW Talks with Donovan Hohn
When thousands of rubber duckies fall overboard from a container ship en route to the U.S. from China, Hohn, an English teacher turned investigator of the high seas, tracks them down in Moby-Duck.
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Death and Tigers: PW Talks with Tea Obreht
Myth and the real converge in debut novelist Téa Obreht's stunning The Tiger's Wife (reviewed on page 26), where a tiger and a deathless man stalk through history.
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Playboys of the Western World: PW Talks with Joseph O'Connor
In his eighth novel, Ghost Light, bestselling Irish author Joseph O'Connor reimagines the love affair between controversial playwright J.M. Synge and his leading lady, Molly Allgood.
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Q & A with Ellen Potter
In 2003, Ellen Potter made a lively splash onto the scene with her middle-grade novel Olivia Kidney. Most recently, the author tapped into memories of her own childhood reading to pen The Humming Room, a novel inspired by Frances Hodgson Burnett’s The Secret Garden.
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The Monday Interview with Elliot Tiber
An interview with Elliot Tiber, whose Palm Trees on the Hudson: A True Story of the Mob, Judy Garland & Interior Decorating was published January 3 by Square One Publishers.
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The Troubled King of Chess: PW Talks with Frank Brady
In Endgame, Chess Life founding editor Frank Brady explores the brilliant, bizarre life of Bobby Fischer.
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Inspired by Jason Bourne: PW Talks with Taylor Stevens
Vanessa Michael Munroe, the androgynous hero of Taylor Stevens's thriller debut, The Informationist, has a past that in part reflects the closed, nomadic existence of the author growing up in the Children of God cult.
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Exit Interview: PW talks to Retiring University of California Press Director Lynne Withey
After 25 years, the last nine as director, Lynne Withey retired at the end of 2010 from the University of California Press, winding down a career marked by significant growth, innovation, and service.
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Q & A with Elizabeth Eulberg
A book publicist for a dozen years, first for Scholastic and currently for Little, Brown as director of global publicity for Stephenie Meyer, Elizabeth Eulberg stepped into the role of author with The Lonely Hearts Club. Scholastic's Point imprint is publishing her second YA novel, Prom & Prejudice, a modern-day retelling of Jane Austen's Pride and Prejudice. Bookshelf caught up with Eulberg—who like Lizzie lives in Hoboken—to talk about the novel and her writing life.
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