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Unknown Pleasures: PW Talks with Ed Lin
Lin’s soulful, surprisingly comic thriller "Ghost Month" parts the curtain on the island enigma that is Taiwan.
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The Element of Choice: PW Talks with Susan Wiggs
"The Beekeeper’s Ball," Wiggs’s second in her Bella Vista Chronicles series (after "The Apple Orchard") juggles a modern love story with a heart-pounding chronicle of the Danish resistance in Nazi-occupied Copenhagen.
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Can Civilians Understand? PW Talks with Helen Thorpe
In "Soldier Girls: The Battles of Three Women at Home and at War," journalist Thorpe portrays the lives of her subjects before, during, and after their deployments.
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The Intimacy of Trauma: PW Talks with Chelsea Cain
Cain launches a new series with "One Kick," featuring 21-year-old Kick Lannigan, who was kidnapped at age six and rescued five years later.
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Training for Writing: PW Talks with Amy Bloom
"Lucky Us," Bloom’s first novel since "Away," tells the story of Eva and Iris, two sisters who meet as adolescents in the 1940s and, together, seek fame and fortune.
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Q & A with Ashley Bryan
At 90, Ashley Bryan is as full of energy as the groups of schoolchildren who throng through his studio.
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First Fiction Summer 2014: Sharona Muir: A Literary Game Changer
Before Sharona Muir’s debut novel, Invisible Beasts, was a book, it was a game.
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Resident Raconteur: PW Talks with Terrence Holt
Holt, a professor of social medicine and geriatric medicine, uses a fictionalized narrator and composite patients to “make sense of medicine through storytelling” in "Internal Medicine: A Doctor’s Stories."
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A Serial Killer Who’s No Supervillain: PW Talks with Bernard Minier
In French author Minier’s "The Frozen Dead," Toulouse police commandant Martin Servaz must discover how and why a decapitated horse ended up hanging from a cable car platform.
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Fantasy Island: PW Talks with Nick Harkaway
The impending environmental destruction of the island of Mancreu is the setting for Harkaway’s "Tigerman," where a British army veteran forges a friendship with a teenage boy.
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BEA 2014: Short & Poehler Pick Up The Pen
Popular and pretty, short and sassy, two comedy stars make their author debuts.
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The Plants in Pants: PW Talks with Karen Abbott
In "Liar, Temptress, Soldier, Spy: Four Women Undercover in the Civil War," Abbott shares the stories of four daring women who defied their gender roles to support their respective sides.
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Stealth Writer: PW Talks with Mary Kubica
Kubica’s debut, "The Good Girl," charts 24-year-old Mia Dennett’s abduction and eventual reappearance, though she has no memory of what happened in between.
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Coming Full Circle: PW Talks with Pamela Moses
Moses’s debut novel, "The Appetites of Girls," explores the lives of four women through college and a decade beyond.
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BEA 2014: Dick Cavett Reveals His Brief Encounters
An Emmy Award winner and talk show host pioneer, Dick Cavett is back with his fourth book, Brief Encounters: Conversations, Magic Moments, and Assorted Hijinks (Random House, Nov.).
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LGBTQ Publishing: PW Talks with Sara Farizan
Sara Farizan burst onto the YA and LGBTQ scene with her debut novel "If You Could Be Mine" from Algonquin Young Readers in 2013.
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17th-Century Spy vs. Spy: PW Talks with Susanna Gregory
Gregory’s Restoration-era spy, Thomas Chaloner, combines detection with espionage in "Murder on High Holborn."
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It Takes a Graveyard to Raise a Child: PW Talks with P. Craig Russell
Neil Gaiman’s YA fantasy "The Graveyard Book" tells the story of a young child who is adopted by the spirits that occupy a nearby graveyard, following the grisly murder of his parents.
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From Songs to Tears: PW Talks with Barbara J. Taylor
A family legend inspired Taylor to shine a spotlight on her hometown of Scranton, Penn., in her debut novel, "Sing in the Morning, Cry at Night."
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Q & A with Valorie Fisher
Valorie FIsher's new book, "I Can Do It Myself," shows tiny toys tracing letters, setting the table, and making the bed, and pictures actual children mastering tasks like tying their shoes, using safety scissors, and pouring lemonade.
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