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Stepsister Rivalry: Jane Alison
In The Sisters Antipodes, novelist Jane Alison tells of her early years living in Australia, where her parents broke up and switched partners and children with another couple.
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A Likable Cad: William Dietrich
William Dietrich delivers his third historical, The Dakota Cipher, about American adventurer Ethan Gage.
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'More spiritual than I realized': author-psychologist Pipher
Psychologist Mary Pipher had both the talent and good fortune to write a number of bestselling books in the 1990s, including the acclaimed Reviving Ophelia, about teen-age girls.
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The Monday Interview: Larry Wilmore
An interview with Larry Wilmore, author of I’d Rather We Got Casinos: And Other Black Thoughts, which was published by Hyperion.
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To Barbados and Beyond
From Brooklyn to the Caribbean to Africa, Marshall describes the places she has called home and the people she has loved in Triangular Road. Your book is framed by two journeys across the Atlantic. It begins with your trip to Paris with Langston Hughes and ends with your trip to Africa.
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Mengele at 90: Finally Funny
Jerry Stahl returns with Pain Killers, an uproarious novel about a disgraced cop turned PI who's hired to find out whether a San Quentin inmate is actually Josef Mengele.
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The Second Time Around
Your first book is a success. No matter how success is defined, the specter of the second book looms large. The question you've been continually asking of your narrative—“What happens next?”—is asked of you. And it seems as if the story of your career is already written: success is followed by a fall.
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New Obama Speech, New Obama Book
President Obama’s speeches have provided fodder for a picture book from Simon & Schuster, and his inaugural address on Tuesday will become a new book as well. HarperCollins’s new Bowen Press imprint will release Our Enduring Spirit: President Barack Obama’s First Address to the Nation, a 40-page picture book with illustrations by Greg Ruth.
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Smart as Heller: A Web-Exclusive Profile of Zoe Heller
Zoe Heller’s books aren’t hard to read or pretentious or opaque, but that doesn’t mean they’re easy. What they are is deceptively complex, in the way they wrap a high-concept plot around extremely complicated characters. They’re also, to put it mildly, tart—sharp-witted, observant and not at all blithely accepting of human foibles. You don’t read Zoe Heller, in other words, to be coddled.
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What Do We Want? Freedom
Jedediah Purdy—who debunked irony in his attention-getting first book—now explores the conundrums of freedom in A Tolerable Anarchy.
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Odd Jobs: Brian M. Wiprud
Brian M. Wiprud talks about his new novel Feelers.
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PW Talks to Adam Cohen: A Web-Exclusive Q&A
Obama is sworn in and like FDR, the world looks to his First 100 Days to see if he can get a handle on the economic crisis gripping the country.
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Children's Bookshelf Speaks with Jacqueline Woodson
In Peace, Locomotion, Jacqueline Woodson returns to the story of Lonnie, aka Locomotion, a Brooklyn boy separated from his sister, Lili, after the death of their parents. Woodson talks about what it was like to return to Lonnie’s story, how her writing process has changed during her career—and why she will never write a novel through letters again.
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The Monday Interview: Efrem Sigel
An interview with Efrem Sigel, whose second novel, The Disappearance, will be published by the Permanent Press
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A Priest Without a Pulpit: Barbara Brown Taylor
An Episcopal priest without a parish, Barbara Brown Taylor wrote about how that came to pass in Leaving Church: A Memoir of Faith. The next part of her journey is the subject of An Altar in the World: A Geography of Faith.
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Natasha Wimmer on Translating Roberto Bolaño
Reviewing the late Chilean novelist Roberto Bolaño's posthumous masterpiece 2666 in the New York Times Book Review this past November, Jonathan Lethem echoed much of the book press, noting, “[I]n the literary culture of the United States, Bolaño has become a talismanic figure seemingly overnight.
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A Mental Puzzle: Mara Faye Lethem
Mara Faye Lethem (her brother is the novelist Jonathan Lethem) will publish two translations, Pandora in the Congo by Albert Sanchez Piñol and Wonderful World by Lethem's husband, Javier Calvo.
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The Farmer-Writer
Pakistani author and farm-owner Mueenuddin's first collection, In Other Rooms, Other Wonders, follows the travails of a complex web of relations surrounding a Lahore landowner.
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Q & A with Javaka Steptoe
Javaka Steptoe won the 1998 Coretta Scott King Illustrator Award for his first book, and has illustrated eight others, Bookshelf spoke with Javaka about Amiri and Odette: A Love Story (Scholastic), a collaboration with Walter Dean Myers on a contemporary adaptation of Swan Lake.
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A 21st-century Spy
After five crime novels set in a fictional Eastern European country during the Cold War, Olen Steinhauer examines the toll working for the CIA takes on one agent in a contemporary spy thriller, The Tourist (Reviews, Dec. 15). What drew you to the spy thriller? John le Carré. It wasn't until I picked up The Spy Who Came In from the Cold that it became clear how spy fiction can encompass all...
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