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  • An Immigrant Voice

    by Mark Rotella | 01/27/2003 @ 07:00AM

    PW: In your book The Italian-American Reader, you address a version of the question Gay Talese asked: Where are all the Italian-American writers?

  • Rebuilding from Out of the Rubble

    by Dena Croog | 01/27/2003 @ 07:00AM

    PW: What led you to choose 9/11 as the backdrop of The Usual Rules?

  • A Liberal Sounds Off on Liberal Bias

    by Elisabeth Eaves | 01/27/2003 @ 07:00AM

    PW: Why did you want to write What Liberal Media?

  • Don't Call Me Gritty: Richard Price Talks to PW Daily

    by Edward Nawotka, PW Daily for Booksellers | 01/22/2003 @ 11:00AM

    With more than 150,000 copies hitting bookstores, Richard Price's latest novel, Samaritan, is sure to sit in high piles on the new fiction hardcover tables at bookstores across the country.

  • Lord Peter Wimsey and Harriet Vane Redux

    by Leonard Picker | 01/20/2003 @ 07:00AM

    PW: How does your second posthumous collaboration with Dorothy Sayers, A Presumption of Death, differ from your first?

  • Spy Games

    by Adam Dunn | 01/20/2003 @ 07:00AM

    PW: The Confessor obviously draws on the research of Holocaust historians like Susan Zucotti and Daniel Goldhagen. To what extent would you say your works are influenced by WWII?

  • Evolution Sets Us Free

    by Ron Hogan | 01/20/2003 @ 07:00AM

    PW: What is the main idea behind Freedom Evolves?

  • Fear and Loathing in the New Millennium

    by Lynn Andriani | 01/13/2003 @ 07:00AM

    PW: Is your new book, Kingdom of Fear, all new material?

  • Whiz Kid Redux

    by Edward Nawotka | 01/13/2003 @ 07:00AM

    Purdy, who had moved to New York City only days before, met with PW at a midtown Italian restaurant to discuss his new book, Being America. A home-schooled graduate of Harvard and Yale Law School who has recently begun clerking for a federal judge, Purdy has the remarkable skill—a politician's skill—of speaking in fully formed paragraphs, even while eating.

  • The Mind of the Ladies' Man

    by Steven Zeitchik | 01/13/2003 @ 07:00AM

    PW: There are many real people in Cad, and not all of them are depicted flatteringly. Has anyone else seen the book? Have your ex-girlfriends seen it? Has Vanilla Ice seen it?

  • Private Ryan Meets Alien

    by Alan Warren | 01/06/2003 @ 07:00AM

    PW: Is it true your horror thriller Jinn started in a college writing seminar?

  • How to Go 12 Rounds in the Ring of Life

    by Jeff Zaleski | 01/06/2003 @ 07:00AM

    PW: You're a former world heavyweight champ, you're a preacher, you're a spokesman for Salton [maker of the wildly popular Foreman grills]. You have a lot on your plate. Why did you write George Foreman's Guide to Life.

  • Radical Grace

    by Henry Carrigan | 12/23/2002 @ 07:00AM

    PW: How did you come to write A Glimpse of Jesus?

  • The Wheel Turns Another Notch

    by Ben P. Indick | 12/23/2002 @ 07:00AM

    PW: You're one of today's major fantasy authors. Did you always know you wanted to write? Robert Jordan: Yes, defining "always" as being from the age of five, but when I was about nine or 10, it became clear to me that writers couldn't make a living in the United States. They always had some other means of employment.

  • A Wine Country Squatter

    by Edward Nawotka | 12/16/2002 @ 07:00AM

    Alan Deutschman, author of A Tale of Two Valleys: Wine, Wealth, and the Battle for the Good Life in Napa and Sonoma spoke with PW by phone from his home in San Francisco.

  • Murder at the World's Fair

    by Martin Schneider | 12/16/2002 @ 07:00AM

    PW: The Devil in the White City and your bestseller, Isaac's Storm, take place within a few years of each other. What is it about the late 19th century that appeals to you?

  • Traveling at the Speed of Dark

    by Melissa Mia Hall | 12/16/2002 @ 07:00AM

    PW:The Speed of Dark, your latest novel, features Lou Arrendale, an "autist," and invokes comparison to the classic, Flowers for Algernon. Were you consciously inspired by it?

  • Wen Ho Lee Redux: An Insider's Take

    by Ron Hogan | 12/09/2002 @ 07:00AM

    Notra Trulock was head of intelligence for the Department of Energy when the investigation was conducted into whether Los Alamos staffer Wen Ho Lee had given American nuclear secrets to the People's Republic of China. In Code Name Kindred Spirit,Trulock offers his account of the investigation.

  • Crime on the Ropes

    by Don Herron | 12/09/2002 @ 07:00AM

    PW: You have a solid one-two punch this season with Shadow Boxer and a poster book, The Art of Noir. How do you feel about that? Eddie Muller: I feel great about it, but I'd be lying if I didn't say that all of the nonfiction I have done is a set-up for the novels. My real interest is in fiction, in writing those novels.

  • Inspector Banks Goes Home

    by Tim Peters | 12/09/2002 @ 07:00AM

    PW: You began your writing career as a poet, but with the publication of Close to Home you've finished your 15th novel and the 13th to feature Det. Chief Insp. Alan Banks. What led you to crime fiction?

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