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Q & A with Deborah Heiligman
Deborah Heiligman spoke with 'PW' about the difference between writing fiction and nonfiction, how a book idea grabs her, and trying her hand at watercolor painting while working on 'Vincent and Theo'.
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Ordinary Soldiers in Extraordinary Circumstances: PW Talks with Walt Gragg
In ‘The Red Line,' Gragg’s debut military thriller, a revived Soviet Union sends armored units into the heart of Germany to face isolated, unprepared U.S. forces.
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Mothers from the Past: PW Talks with Janet Benton
In Benton’s debut novel, Lilli de Jong (Doubleday/Talese, May), an unwed mother chooses a life of heartache and thankless labor in order to keep her infant daughter and her own principles in late-19th-century Philadelphia.
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Murderous Storms: PW Talks with John Farrow
In Perish the Day (Minotaur, May), Farrow concludes his trilogy of weather-themed mysteries featuring Émile Cinque-Mars.
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All the Shades of Guilt: PW Talks with Denise Mina
Real-life murderer Peter Manuel, hanged for his crimes in Scotland in 1958, is a major character in Mina's novel, 'The Long Drop' (Little, Brown, May).
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Q & A with Laini Taylor
Laini Taylor spoke with PW about her new book, 'Strange the Dreamer,' the first in a duology.
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Q & A with Emma Donoghue
'Room' author Emma Donoghue spoke with PW about her debut novel for younger readers, 'The Lotterys Plus One.'
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Why Things Taste That Way: PW Talks with Bob Holmes
In Flavor: The Science of Our Most Neglected Sense (Norton, Apr.), science writer Holmes surveys the interplay of taste, smell, and feel.
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'At Least We Gave Them the Railways': PW Talks with Abir Mukherjee
A British detective in Colonial India must solve a sensitive murder in Abir Mukherjee’s 'A Rising Man' (Pegasus Crime, May).
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Q & A with Andrew McCarthy
Andrew McCarthy is best known as a movie star, but has branched out into writing in recent years, and is now publishing his first work of fiction, a YA novel.
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Celebrating History's Bad-Ass Women: PW Talks with Greer Macallister
Greer Macallister talks to PW about her historical novel, 'Girl in Disguise,' loosely based on the life of the mysterious and elusive Kate Warne, the first female operative working for the Pinkerton Detective Agency.
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Q & A with David Wiesner and Donna Jo Napoli
Before creating 'Fish Girl', neither David Wiesner nor Donna Jo Napoli had ever written a graphic novel. 'PW' spoke with Wiesner and Napoli about what makes working on a graphic novel different from other kinds of writing, and why it’s important that this mermaid story wasn’t a romance.
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Four Questions for Michael Bornstein and Debbie Bornstein Holinstat
The Bornsteins spoke with 'PW' about their middle grade memoir, 'Survivors Club: The True Story of a Very Young Prisoner of Auschwitz', the process of remembering and reconstructing a traumatic past, and the urgency of documenting the Holocaust for future generations.
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Pushing the Envelopes: PW Talks with Nir Hezroni
In Hezroni's 'The Three Envelopes' (St. Martin's/Dunne, Apr.), an Israeli intelligence agent plots an intricate and subtle revenge on his former handlers.
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Q & A with Jason Chin
Jason Chin is the author and illustrator of several nonfiction picture books about natural ecosystems, including 'Redwoods' (2009), 'Coral Reefs' (2011), 'Island: A Story of the Galapagos' (2012), and his most recent, 'Grand Canyon', published this month.
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It's Always All About Power: PW Talks with Malcolm Mackay
In Mackay's 'Every Night I Dream of Hell' (Mulholland, Apr.), criminals and cops fight for control over Glasgow, Scotland.
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Q & A with Angie Thomas
Author Angie Thomas based her debut novel on her own experiences, both as a kid growing up in Jackson, Miss., and as a young woman navigating a world where gun violence and police brutality are a frightening everyday reality.
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Four Questions for Amy Ephron
Amy Ephron explores new literary turf in her debut children’s book, 'The Castle in the Mist', a middle-grade novel released this month.
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Four Questions for...Jonathan Ferrara
We spoke with artist and gallery owner Jonathan Ferrara—whose curated exhibition, 'Guns In the Hands of Artists,' has been made into a book by Ink Shares—about art, gun ownership, and violence in America.
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