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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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Crooks, by Hook: PW Talks with Sheldon Russell
In The Insane Train, Sheldon Russell's second historical mystery featuring 1940s railroad security agent Hook Runyon, mental patients are transferred across the country by train.
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Antony and Cleopatra Revised: PW Talks with Stacy Schiff
In Cleopatra, Stacy Schiff gives an unprecedented portrait of a queen who survived more by her wits (and wealth) than her beauty.
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Q & A with Kate DiCamillo and Alison McGhee
In Bink & Gollie, two precocious girls who have little in common except for their fertile imaginations are the closest of friends, and embark on a series of adventures. Bink & Gollie's co-authors, Kate DiCamillo and Alison McGhee, at first glance, seem as though they have little in common, but are themselves the closest of friends.
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Why I Write: Will Friedwald
I recently had a disturbing revelation. I started to write about music in my teens, largely because it seemed inevitable. My mother is very literary, my dad was a music buff, and this was the most direct way to combine their two aspirations into the act of writing about music.
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From Siberia, with Love: PW Talks with Ian Frazier
In Travels in Siberia, Ian Frazier takes readers across Russia's great tundra expanse.
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A Poet Exploring Good and Evil: PW Talks with Ron Padgett
Poet Ted Berrigan's close friend Ron Padgett co-edited Dear Sandy, a collection of letters the young Ted wrote his wife when she was institutionalized by her parents for marrying him.
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Jane Austen's Unknown History: PW Talks with Stephanie Barron
Lord Byron is accused of murder in Jane and the Madness of Lord Byron, the 10th Jane Austen mystery from Stephanie Barron, the pseudonym of Francine Mathews.
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The Monday Interview with Patrick Hennessey
An interview with Patrick Hennessey, whose The Junior Officers' Reading Club: Killing Time and Fighting Wars will be published by Riverhead Books.
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Canine Crime Solvers: PW Talks with Rita Mae Brown
German shepherd mix King and wire-haired dachshund Baxter help Nevada rancher Jeep Reed solve a murder in Rita Mae Brown's A Nose for Justice, the first in a new mystery series.
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Why I Write: Michael Korda
I've always wanted to write history, and it was only the accident of going to work for a book publisher in 1958 (and the need to earn a regular paycheck) that slowed me down. Even then, I went through a long, self-imposed, part-time apprenticeship.
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Q & A with Blue Balliett
Like Lightning Thief author Rick Riordan, Blue Balliett has morphed from popular teacher to popular novelist. Six years ago, she started publishing bestselling mysteries: Chasing Vermeer, followed by The Wright 3 and The Calder Game. Her fourth title is The Danger Box, inspired by Charles Darwin's diary.
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And I Digress: PW Talks with Timothy Donnelly
Timothy Donnelly's much anticipated second collection of poems, The Cloud Corporation features virtuoso displays of poetic power in long and short poems that closely trace, and play with, how the mind makes sense of the world using language.
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A Catalan Chef: PW Talks with Colman Andrews
Colman Andrews provides a brilliant portrait of Ferran Adrià, the chef of the renowned Catalan restaurant, El Bulli in Ferran, a book that combines biography, culinary journalism, and cultural studies.
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Rounding up the Dogies: PW Talks with Thomas McGuane
In Sweet Grass County, Mont., Thomas McGuane missed his scheduled interview: he had to round up some heifers that had wandered onto the county road. His latest novel, Driving on the Rim, is set in his beloved Big Sky Country.
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Writers Help Struggling Ohio Library
Newcomerstown Public Library in Newcomerstown, Ohio, has been struggling to remain open in its small community due to state budget cuts. The library formed a fundraising committee last fall and has been working hard to raise funds so that it may continue operating.
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The History of a Desk: PW Talks with Nicole Krauss
Great House, Nicole Krauss's new novel, features four lives that intersect at a gargantuan writing desk.
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Why I Write: Melissa Clark
Someone once said of the great food writer M.F.K. Fisher: she was a passionate woman and food was her metaphor. It's an image that has stuck with me throughout my career, the idea that what we eat is a touchstone for human existence, and that food writing can tell us about so much more than what was on the plate.
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Q & A with Dav Pilkey
Dav Pilkey scored a huge hit with The Adventures of Captain Underpants and its sequels; that series stars mischievous fourth graders George and Harold, who turn their principal into an underwear-sporting superhero. George and Harold were credited as the authors of The Adventures of Super Diaper Baby, a Captain Underpants spinoff. Blue Sky will release these characters’ second graphic novel...
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A Parent's Worst Nightmare: PW Talks with Antoinette van Heugten
Antoinette van Heugten, a former international trial lawyer, makes her debut with Saving Max, a thriller about a single mother who places her autistic teenage son in a psychiatric hospital.
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