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  • Maine Chance

    What do you do after writing a national bestseller, giving interviews to the New York Times and the Washington Post and being compared to William Faulkner and Flannery O'Connor? When Carolyn Chute, who had such jobs as waitressing, teaching and working in shoe and chicken factories, hit it big with her first novel, The Beans of Egypt, Maine (Ticknor & Fields, 1985), and finally had the mone...

  • To Narnia and Back

    In The Magician's Book, Laura Miller traces her ever-changing relationship with the best loved books of her childhood, C.S. Lewis's Chronicles of Narnia.

  • The Monday Interview: Will Shortz on KenKen

  • In Search of Buffalo

    In American Buffalo, Steven Rinella narrates the history of the buffalo as he embarks on a buffalo hunt in Alaska.

  • The Monday Interview: Marcus Buckingham, Author of The Truth About You

    An interview with Marcus Buckingham, whose The Truth About You: Your Secret to Success will be published by Thomas Nelson.

  • A High-Rise Career

    Ada Louise Huxtable is a towering figure in architecture criticism. On Architecture collects her writings over 45 years.

  • PW Talks to Rosemary Mahoney A Web-Exclusive Q&A

    In this in-depth Q&A, Down the Nile author Mahoney picks up where she left off in a 2003 PW Interview. It’s pure unadulterated Mahoney—tough, thoughtful, revealing, provocative, funny and rawly truthful.

  • Q & A with Nancy Werlin

    After more than a decade of writing critically acclaimed YA thrillers--including The Rules of Survival, Double Helix and The Killer’s Cousin--Boston-based author Nancy Werlin explores new territory with a novel that blends romance and the supernatural. Impossible (Dial) tells the story of Lucy, an ordinary high school student, who teams up with her family and her best friend Zach to defeat an ancient curse.

  • The Monday Interview: Dean Koontz

    An interview with Dean Koontz, whose Bliss to You: Trixie’s Guide to a Happy Life by Trixie Koontz, Dog, as told to Dean Koontz, will be published by Hyperion.

  • He Sees America Reading

    In Promised Land, Jay Parini offers a sometimes surprising list of 13 books that have shaped America, from Of Plymouth Plantation to The Feminine Mystique.

  • On Tour with Madge

    In Madonna: Confessions, Guy Oseary, the star’s manager and friend for 18 years, photographs her 2006 world tour.

  • Road Tripping with Miriam Toews

    It seems only fitting that Miriam Toews would drive more than two hours down I-29 from her home in Winnipeg to Grand Forks, N.Dak., to talk up her fourth novel. Aside from the fact that she “loves being on the road more than anything” (she and her three children with husband Neal Rempel often accompanied him on “these long, elaborate, eventful road trips” as he traveled ...

  • An Age Like Our Own

    Maitland follows her acclaimed first novel, The White Room, which drew on her experiences in Nigeria and Belfast, with Company of Liars, set in England during the Black Plague.

  • Q&A: Kenny Shopsin

    Curmudgeonly chef Kenny Shopsin talked about his book, Eat Me: The Food and Philosophy of Kenny Shopsin (Knopf), between shifts at his New York restaurant, Shopsin’s General Store.

  • The Monday Interview: Bill Tancer, Author of Click

    An interview with Bill Tancer, whose new book, Click: What Millions of People Are Doing Online and Why It Matters, will be published by Hyperion.

  • Girls and Guns

    In Third Strike, U.K. crime writer Zoë Sharp's Charlie Fox, an ex-British soldier turned bodyguard, faces her toughest protection assignment yet: her parents. What inspired you to create such an atypical heroine? Charlie came about because she was someone I wanted to read about, a strong, independent character but not “a guy in nylons.

  • The Sinbad of Literature

    I've been practicing the pronunciation of Dr. Alaa al Aswany's name for weeks now and by the time we're set to meet at the Cairo Hilton, I'm confident I've got it down. He finds me in the lobby, a big, burly, effusive man, who apologizes for being late, the Cairo traffic impossible. I think about eating in some out-of-the-way foul and falafel joint, but we end up in the hotel's French restauran...

  • Q & A with Polly Horvath

    Bookshelf spoke with Polly Horvath about her new novel, My One Hundred Adventures (Random House/Schwartz & Wade, Sept.).

  • State of Independence: PW Talks to Alafair Burke

    Alafair Burke, daughter of acclaimed crime writer James Lee Burke, came into her own with the Oregon-based Samantha Kincaid legal thrillers. The second novel in her new series to feature NYPD Detective Ellie Hatcher is Angel’s Tip (Harper).

  • The Monday Interview: Screenwriter Turned Memoirist Joe Eszterhas

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