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The Language of Dreams: A Conversation with Katherine Russell Rich
In Dreaming in Hindi, Katherine Russell Rich takes a linguistic journey through India.
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Satyr-in-Chief: A Conversation with Jed Mercurio
Jed Mercurio's American Adulterer examines the personal life and many affairs of a sexually insatiable John F. Kennedy as America teeters on the brink of nuclear war.
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Q & A with Robert B. Parker
Robert B. Parker’s bestselling novels about his iconic Boston private investigator Spenser have sold millions of copies worldwide. The author moves back in time in Chasing the Bear: A Young Spenser Novel, which stars this character as a 14-year-old living in a small western town with his father and two uncles, due this month from Philomel with a 150,000-copy first printing.
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A Life Formed by an Earthquake: A Conversation with Stanislao G. Pugliese
In Bitter Spring (Reviews, Apr. 6), Pugliese writes about the life of Ignazio Silone, writer and founder of the Italian Communist Party. How similar is the recent earthquake in Abruzzo, Italy, to the one that Silone survived as a boy? Unfortunately, it seems that history is repeating itself in that part of the world.
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Inside the Cardboard Box: A Conversation with James Rollins
Bestseller James Rollins delivers his sixth Sigma Force thriller, The Doomsday Key (Reviews, Apr. 27). How do you get started on a book? It starts with a box, a cardboard lawyer's file box. Into that box goes anything that might make a story: a stray idea that pops into my head, an article from the latest Scientific American, a note jotted while watching the History Channel and so on.
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Cooking the Books with Adam Schell
Former chef Adam Schell spent nine years researching and writing his first novel, Tomato Rhapsody: A Fable of Lust, Love and Forbidden Fruit (Delcaorte). He picked grapes and olives in Tuscany, visited libraries in Florence to read ancient Italian cookbooks and menus, and studied with a master gardener and cultivated Italian heirloom tomatoes. He talked to PW about what he learned along the way, and also shared his recipe for tomato-baked eggs.
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Q & A with Jenny Han
Bookshelf spoke with Jenny Han about her new novel, The Summer I Turned Pretty (S&S, May).
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The Monday Interview: Rupert Isaacson
An interview with Rupert Isaacson, whose The Horse Boy: A Father’s Quest to Heal His Son was published by Little, Brown.
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During the Storm: A Q&A with musician-author Nic Brown
Musician Nic Brown writes about a disparate cast caught in Hurricane Hugo in his first book, Floodmarkers. Would you consider Floodmarkers to be a novel or a collection? It's both, I guess. I once heard Denis Johnson say about Jesus' Son, and I'm paraphrasing here, that he loved how Jesus' Son was like a CD, because it was small and you could open it up anywhere, and each sto...
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Keeping the Mailer Spirit Alive
A few months before Norman Mailer died in November of 2007, his longtime collaborator Lawrence Schiller sat down with the legendary author to discuss his legacy. “There's a whole generation of people out there who don't know who you are,” Schiller told Mailer, “and I don't want you to be an author who someone reads six or seven books and doesn't read the rest.
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Q & A with Gayle Forman
Bookshelf spoke with Gayle Forman about her new novel, If I Stay (Dutton).
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PW Interviews Heidi Murkoff
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Cooking the Books with the Farm Chicks
Teri Edwards, 45, and Serena Thompson, 38, are stay-at-home moms in Spokane, Wash., with a penchant for antiques, handmade goods and homemade foods. They’re also known nationally as The Farm Chicks, putting on an annual antique show and writing a monthly column in Country Living. Just as their first book, The Farm Chicks in the Kitchen, hits bookstores, the Farm Chicks talked to PW about junking, branding and writing a book.
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Through the Looking Glass: Q & A with Eduardo Galeano
In Mirrors: Stories of Almost Everyone (Nation Books), Uruguayan writer Galeano presents miniature narratives of creation myths and current events from all over the world. What inspired this particular project? For years it was growing inside me. Little by little, I came to accept the challenge of recounting the history of the world in 600 short stories.
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Not Another Investigative Reporter Barbie: An Interview with Laurie Moore
Laurie Moore launches a new romantic suspense series with Woman Strangled—News at Ten, featuring Aspen Wicklow, a recent college grad who lands a job with Fort Worth's struggling WBFD-TV.
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Swashbucklers with Bite
British author Justin Somper is a man of many hats: he worked as a children’s book publicist and owned his own publicity consultancy group, before creating the hybrid-genre series, Vampirates. According to Somper’s U.S. editor, Nancy Conescu at Little, Brown Books for Young Readers, the first four books in Somper’s series, popular in the U.K. have now been translated into more than 20 languages—and are reaching a growing American readership.
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Q & A with Mark Teague
Mark Teague is the illustrator of the bestselling How Do Dinosaurs… series by Jane Yolen, as well as the author/illustrator of the Dear Mrs. LaRue picture books. In 2009, Teague tackles farm life in a new picture book, another Dinosaur book, and a new (for him) format.
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Norton to Publish Posthumous Volume of Ballard Short Fiction
With the passing of author J.G. Ballard, Norton is preparing to publish a posthumous volume of his work.
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Monday Interview: Ted Dekker
An interview with Ted Dekker, whose novel, Boneman’s Daughters, was published by Center Street.
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