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A Tale of Three Charleses: PW Talks with Tim Mason
In 'The Darwin Affair' (Alongquin, June), Mason imagines a connection between an attempt on Queen Victoria’s life and Charles Darwin’s 'On the Origin of Species.'
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Q & A with Jonathan Stutzman and Heather Fox
Jonathan Stutzman and Heather Fox discuss their debut picture book, 'Llama Destroys the World,' which features a llama whose appetite for cake has serious repercussions for the fate of the universe.
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Q & A with Hafsah Faizal
PW spoke with Hafsah Faizal about the inspiration behind 'We Hunt the Flame,' and her journey from blogger to influencer to debut author after finding an agent via #DVPit.
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Rules of the Game: PW Talks with James Trefil
In 'Imagined Life' (Smithsonian, Sept.), science writer Trefil and his coauthor, Michael Summers, explore the possibilities awaiting humanity in the search for extraterrestrial life.
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An Inconceivable Friendship: PW Talks with Daniela Petrova
In Petrova’s debut, 'Her Daughter’s Mother' (Putnam, June), pregnant Lana Stone befriends her anonymous egg donor, who suddenly vanishes.
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In Conversation: Audrey Coulthurst and Paula Garner
We asked authors Audrey Coulthurst and Paula Garner to interview each other about their friendship, which evolved from an online connection, and their new novel, 'Starworld.'
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Q & A with Ann Patchett
A chance meeting with illustrator Robin Preiss Glasser, an unexpected result in a Pennsylvania congressional race, and a Fleetwood Mac hit from 1975 are all part of the backstory for novelist Ann Patchett's debut children's book, 'Lambslide.'
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Q & A with Lynn Curlee
Artist and author Lynn Curlee spoke with PW about his latest book, 'The Great Nijinsky,' which features his acrylic paintings of the acclaimed dancer as well as other members of the Ballets Russes.
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A Deadly Anniversary: PW Talks with Tom O’Neill
In 'Chaos: Charles Manson, the CIA, and the Secret History of the Sixties' (Little, Brown, June), O’Neill challenges the accepted narrative about the Tate/LaBianca murders 50 years ago.
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Order a Case of Kleenex and Write the Goddamn Book: PW Talks with Walt Odets
Odets’s 'Out of the Shadows: Reimagining Gay Men’s Lives' (Farrar, Straus and Giroux, June) takes an expansive, heartfelt look at gay male identity and experience.
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Home in South Africa: PW Talks with Bianca Marais
Marais’s second novel, 'If You Want to Make God Laugh' (Putnam, July), focuses on the struggles of three women whose lives connect in surprising ways in newly postapartheid South Africa.
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The Death of a President: PW Talks with Lawrence Goldstone
In 'Assassin of Shadows' (Pegasus Crime), Goldstone casts the murder of President McKinley in a new light.
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'Wonder and Excitement': PW Talks with Seymour Simon
In ‘Destination: Moon,’ Simon, the author of more than 300 books for young readers, looks at the science and technology that made the lunar landing possible.
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Hidden Figures No More: PW talks with Nancy Atkinson
Atkinson, author of ‘Eight Years to the Moon,’ discusses the legacy of Apollo 11.
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Reclaiming the Moon: PW Talks with Neil Clarke
The SF anthology 'The Eagle Has Landed,’ which Clarke edited, looks at 50 years of post–lunar landing fiction.
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A Year in Space: PW Talks with Scott Kelly
Retired NASA astronaut Scott Kelly chronicled his high-flying adventures for picture book readers in 'My Journey to the Stars,' now available in Step into Reading editions.
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Q & A with Leonard S. Marcus
PW caught up with Leonard S. Marcus to speak about his third title this spring, 'Helen Oxenbury: A Life in Illustration,' a survey of the groundbreaking children's book creator's work.
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A Woman, a Chest, a God, a Quest: PW Talks with Silvia Moreno-Garcia
In the historical fantasy 'Gods of Jade and Shadow' (Del Rey, Aug.), a woman and a god undertake a magical quest across Jazz Age Mexico.
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Set It Down: PW Talks with Roxana Robinson
Robinson imagines the lives of her great-grandparents in an unrepentant South two decades after the end of the Civil War in 'Dawson’s Fall' (FSG/Crichton, May).
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Poetry Is for Everyone: PW Talks with Stephanie Burt
Poet-critic Burt’s 'Don’t Read Poetry: A Book About How to Read Poetry' (Basic, May) is an accessible, inclusive, and, most of all, friendly guide to poetry.
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