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Favorite Flavors: Bobby Flay
In his latest cookbook, Bobby Flay's Burgers, Fries & Shakes, the chef shares both classic and newfound recipes for three of America's most addictive foods. Your previous cookbooks have been pretty broad in scope. Was it a more enjoyable experience focusing in on just burgers, fries and shakes? I don't know that I would feel comfortable saying that I enjoyed writing any bo...
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Breaking New Ground: John Hart
After The King of Lies and Down River, Edgar-winner John Hart delivers another stand-alone crime thriller, The Last Child.
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Death and 'Dirty Dancing'
Former PW editor Emily Chenoweth interweaves the story of a daughter's sexual awakening with her mother's terminal illness, culminating in a bittersweet anniversary party, in her debut, Hello Goodbye.
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The Monkey God's Hands
Cheeni Rao is an award-winning fiction writer and graduate of the prestigious Iowa Writer's Workshop. Rao's memoir, In Hanuman's Hands (Reviews, Jan. 19), is a visionary journey from rock bottom to recovery, telling how a drug and alcohol addiction opened his eyes to the divine and, in particular, forged for him a relationship with Hanuman, the monkey god of the Hindu epic the Ramayana.
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Q & A with Cassandra Clare
Cassandra Clare is the author of City of Bones, City of Ashes, and most recently, City of Glass (McElderry), the final installment in her Mortal Instruments trilogy. Clare spoke with Bookshelf about playing character favorites, making promises to fans, the ups and downs of saying goodbye to a big story, and working on a new series.
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Playing the Game According to Doyle: Donald Thomas
Pegasus Books is publishing British author Donald Thomas’s fourth collection of new Sherlock Holmes stories, Sherlock Holmes and the King’s Evil.
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Cosmic War Correspondent: A Web-Exclusive Profile of Reza Aslan
Reza Aslan already had a new subject in mind to follow up his critically acclaimed — and best-selling — first book, No God But God:The Origins, Evolution, And Future Of Islam (Random House, 2005), a post-9/11 exploration of what Aslan sees as a continuing reformation within Islam.
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BB Guns at Dusk: Colson Whitehead
Colson Whitehead's Sag Harbor draws on his childhood vacations on Long Island.
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Q & A with Lisa Yee
Author Lisa Yee, a “mostly cured workaholic,” talked to Children’s Bookshelf about Absolutely Maybe, her first novel for young adults.
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Cooking the Books with Molly Wizenberg
Molly Wizenberg’s food blog, Orangette, attracts almost 8,000 people a day. Through her blog, Wizenberg met her husband, landed a monthly column in Bon Appétit—and snagged a book deal with Simon & Schuster for her memoir, A Homemade Life: Stories and Recipes from My Kitchen Table. Wizenberg talked to Cooking the Books from her home in Seattle about blogging, writing a book, and where she finds recipes.
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The Book of Jane: A Web-Exclusive Profile of Jane Hamilton
Jane Hamilton has driven 140 miles north from her rural southeastern Wisconsin farmhouse to talk books at A Room of One’s Own, the venerable feminist bookstore in downtown Madison.
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The Feminine Mystique: Charlotte Roche
In her German-bestselling debut, Wetlands, German television presenter turned novelist Charlotte Roche courts controversy with the very private, very peculiar sexual and grooming habits of her 18-year-old protagonist, Helen Memel.
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Of Prussia, with Love
Michael G. Jacob, under the pseudonym of Michael Gregorio, writes, along with his Italian wife, Daniela De Gregorio, a historical mystery series influenced by the ideas of Prussian philosopher Immanuel Kant, the latest of which is A Visible Darkness.
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The Legacy of an Irish Father
In his memoir, Closing Time, Joe Queenan writes about his alcoholic father and his journey from the projects of Philadelphia to his becoming a writer. What provoked you to write this book now? I started the book four years ago, and I'd been telling the story to other people. What really provoked me to tell the story, though, was that I was tired of going to parties where ever...
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David Ulin
David L. Ulin, book editor of the Los Angeles Times, favors a quote from the father of general semantics, Alfred Korzybski, to describe his perspective on the current state of book reviewing: “It's not a matter of either/or. It's a matter of and/both.” Since joining the Times in October 2005, Ulin has taken on the challenge presented to him when the stand-alone book review section d...
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Q & A with K.L. Going
Children's Bookshelf spoke with K.L. Going about her new novel, King of the Screwups (Harcourt).
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The Monday Interview: Miss Piggy
Miss Piggy’s new book, The Diva Code: Miss Piggy on Life, Love, and the 10,000 Idiotic Things Frogs Do, is published by Hyperion. The Diva spoke with PW about her ambitions. On book editors: "I have considered being a book editor, and I may still pursue that career if I can ever figure out what they do all day. You got any idea?"
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Over Easy, Hard-Boiled: Walter Mosley
Walter Mosley’s best known for his Easy Rawlins mysteries, though he’s also written literary fiction, science fiction, nonfiction, screenplays, “sexistentialist” fiction and regularly contributes to the Nation. Since 1990’s Devil in a Blue Dress (Norton), his first novel, he’s written 31 more books and been published by a lot of outfits, and now, for his latest act, he’s got a new publisher—Penguin’s wunderkind imprint, Riverhead.
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Cleopatra's Aspirations
Historical fantasy author Jo Graham portrays Cleopatra as guided by a loving family and Egypt's gods in Hand of Isis.
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Print Fans Bid Kid Adieu
Much has been written in the two weeks since John Updike's death—about the wonderful precision of his prose and, as Charles McGrath put it, his “unswerving belief in the power of words to faithfully record experience.” But what has not been noted—and understandably, given all there is to note about a man who published 27 novels, 13 collections of stories, n...
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