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The Cult and the Nurse: PW Talks with Ellen Meeropol
Ellen Meeropol packs a bounty of moral dilemmas in her taut first novel, House Arrest.
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Why I Write: Bob Greene
There's a certain amount of irony in the fact that I currently make my living as a writer. When I think back to my high school days (more decades ago than I'd like to admit), I remember having a natural aptitude for math and science, but lacking in the creative writing department. I generally viewed writing with the same enthusiasm as going to the dentist's office for a root canal.
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A New Fundamental Instinct: PW Talks with Jed Rubenfeld
Jed Rubenfeld explores a little-remembered tragedy in America—the 1920 bombing of Wall Street, which resulted in more than 400 casualties—in his second historical thriller, The Death Instinct.
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Why I Write: Steven T. Murray
I was fated to become a translator. At four I was exposed to my first foreign language, Tagalog, in Manila, followed by Spanish in Mexico City at seven. Back in the San Francisco Bay area, I took Latin and then German in school.
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A Scottish Crime Novelist
Denise Mina was recognized as the International Guest of Honor at the 2010 Bouchercon World Mystery Convention in San Francisco. She took a few minutes between events to discuss her new graphic novel, the return of her much-loved protagonist, and more.
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Q & A with Michael Rosen
For more than 35 years, Londoner Michael Rosen has been writing books for children, primarily poetry anthologies and picture books. Tiny Fly Guy, the latest offering from the author, who served as the U.K.'s Children's Laureate from 2007-2009, was published by Candlewick last month. Bookshelf caught up with Rosen during his recent visit to Boston.
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Wall Street Casino: PW Talks with Matt Taibbi
The Rolling Stone contributing editor discusses his new book about the revolving door between Washington and Wall Street in Griftopia: Bubble Machines, Vampire Squids, and the Long Con That Is Breaking America.
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Why I Write: Courtney Milan
There is a joke I like to play on my husband.
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The Scales of Justice: PW Talks with Jennie Erin Smith
Smith infiltrates the secretive subculture of illegal reptile smugglers in Stolen World.
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No Eye of Newt Here: PW Talks with Eleanor Brown
Eleanor Brown wrestles with the mysteries of home, family, Shakespeare—and a trio of sisters whom the Bard would love to cast—in The Weird Sisters, her elegant debut.
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Summoning Spirits: PW Talks with Andrew Taylor
In Andrew Taylor's The Anatomy of Ghosts, an unlikely investigator delves into alleged ghost sightings in 18th-century England.
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Q & A with Robin McKinley
Robin McKinley gained early fame when her second published novel, The Blue Sword (1982), was named a Newbery Honor and her third novel, The Hero and the Crown, won the Newbery itself. Among her 15 other books are Beauty, a retelling of "Beauty and the Beast," and Sunshine, a vampire novel. In the world of Pegasus, McKinley's newest tale, human beings must coexist with a race of sentient, winged ungulates with whom communication is extremely difficult.
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It's Not About Selling T-Shirts: PW Talks to Jake Nickell, Founder of Threadless
“Threadless was never intended to be a business,” says Jake Nickell of the company he, along with Jacob DeHart (“the two Jakes”), started as a hobby in a corner of his apartment in 2000.
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The Monday Interview with Andrew Hammerstein
An interview with Oscar Andrew Hammerstein, whose The Hammersteins was published last week by Black Dog & Leventhal.
PW: Your grandfather was Oscar Hammerstein II, of Rodgers & Hammerstein fame. Coming from such a notable theater lineage, why did you not pursue the "family business?"
AH: Early on I showed a talent for painting and drawing and so my parents encouraged me to pursue that. But I was always aware of the theatrical legacy that loomed so large over the family and, after college, I began to acquaint myself with my family's history. I created a family tree and tracked down all living members with an eye and ear to interviewing them - to capture their memories and stories for posterity. From that project, I became the default family historian, a position that, I am happy to say, changed the course of my life.
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An Unsuccessful King: PW Talks with C.J. Sansom
In C.J. Sansom's fifth Tudor mystery, lawyer Matthew Shardlake finds a link between a young man driven to suicide and a mad woman incarcerated in Bedlam that could have terrible political repercussions.
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The Winds of War: PW Talks with Peter Bergen
A longtime journalist and CNN terrorism analyst, Peter Bergen is one of the few Western journalists to have interviewed Osama bin Laden. In his latest book, The Longest War, he surveys the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan from the perspectives of the U.S.—and al-Qaeda.
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Tech Book: PW Talks to Kevin Kelly
In his new book, Kevin Kelly, author of What Technology Wants (Viking; PW Reviews, Sept. 13) puts forth a unique view of technology as a living, evolving entity, which he calls "the Technium." The Technium, he notes, wants to grow. It wants to improve. And it will use people as its agents.
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Q & A with Linda Sue Park
Linda Sue Park is the Newbery-Award winning author of A Single Shard and other acclaimed novels and picture books. Her forthcoming book, The Long Walk to Water, profiles two young people in the Sudan—one based on a real Lost Boy, who was forced to flee his village, the other a fictional girl who collects the water for her village.
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Overwhelming Blood Thirst: PW Talks with Matt Haig
Matt Haig's The Radleys depicts a British family of "abstaining" vampires thrown into crisis after the teenage daughter discovers her "overwhelming blood thirst."
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History, Meet Myth: PW Talks with Sam Meekings
In Under Fishbone Clouds, British expat Sam Meekings takes an unflinching look at a Chinese couple's marriage during Mao's Cultural Revolution.
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