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PW Talks with Joseph McCormack: Business Management Books 2014
In "Brief: Make a Bigger Impact by Saying Less" (Wiley, Feb.), author Joseph McCormack provides strategies tailored to the current era of shrinking attention spans (from an average of 12 seconds in 2000 to an average of eight seconds in 2012), when half of all employees report that they cannot work longer than 15 minutes without getting distracted and that they are interrupted approximately every eight minutes.
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Darkness on Campus: PW Talks with Lori Rader-Day
In Rader-Day’s debut, "The Black Hour," a sociology professor at a university outside Chicago struggles with the effects of an inexplicable crime.
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Everybody Smuggles: PW Talks with Craig Davidson
"Cataract City" follows two friends on the Canadian side of Niagara Falls through childhood trauma and on to adult violence.
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The Art of Autopsy: PW Talks with Judy Melinek
Melinek was set to follow her father’s footsteps into the medical profession before she migrated to the world of forensic pathology.
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Q & A with Lauren Castillo
In Lauren Castillo's 'The Troublemaker,' a boy borrows his younger sister's cherished bunny for a game of pirates, then gets a taste of her distress when his own stuffed animal disappears.
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Q & A with Beth Fantaskey
In Beth Fantaskey's "Buzz Kill," a bright, offbeat student reporter tries to catch a murderer on the loose at her school, which leads to some outrageous moments – and even a sweet romance.
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Reds vs. Whites: PW Talks with Dan Smith
British author Smith evokes the horrors of the civil war after the Russian Revolution in "Red Winter."
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Close to Home: PW Talks with Sue Miller
Miller’s latest novel, "The Arsonist," takes place in a small New Hampshire town where a spate of summerhouse fires ratchets up the tension between locals and summer residents.
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Marine Meditations: PW Talks with James Nestor
In "Deep: Freediving, Renegade Science, and What the Ocean Tells Us About Ourselves," journalist Nestor, and a freediver himself, explores the practice of freediving and its application at the fringes of marine research.
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Our Most Opulent Nowhere: PW Talks with Laura McBride
Vegas is the setting for McBride’s debut novel, "We Are Called to Rise," a heartfelt chronicle of the lives of a handful of damaged people thrown together by tragic circumstances.
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Local Characters: PW Talks with Beth Macy
In her new book, journalist Macy traces the effects of globalization on American manufacturing via the story of one Virginia family.
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Death on the Menu: PW Talks with Alexander Campion
Food and wine mix with crime in Campion’s "Murder on the Mediterranean," his fifth novel featuring French policewoman Capucine le Tellier and her epicurean husband, Alexandre de Huguelet.
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Q & A with Alan Rabinowitz
Zoologist Alan Rabinowitz's first children's book, "A Boy and a Jaguar," conveys his passion for and skill at communicating with animals.
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Q & A with Gabi Swiatkowska
Illustrator Gabi Swiatkowska's first solo effort, "Queen on Wednesday," is about a girl who finds that being queen is more than she bargained for.
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Intervention, Not Incarceration: PW Talks with Nell Bernstein
In "Burning Down the House: The End of Juvenile Prison," journalist Bernstein offers a passionate call to action.
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A Massive Excuse to Read Filth All Day: PW Talks with Antonia Hodgson
Hodgson, the editor-in-chief of Little, Brown U.K., makes her fiction debut with "The Devil in the Marshalsea," a historical mystery.
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Heartache and Humor: PW Talks with Courtney Maum
Maum’s debut novel, "I Am Having So Much Fun Here Without You," views monogamy and love through the eyes of an artist, Richard, in Paris.
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A Near-Future America: PW Talks with Marcus Sakey
“A Better World,” book two of Sakey’s near-future Brilliance Saga, traces the physical and psychological conflicts that arise when 1% of the world’s population possesses paranormal talents.
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Q & A with Nina LaCour
Nina LaCour's latest novel, "Everything Leads to You," about a romance between two young women, is the love story she knew she'd eventually write.
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Suspicious Suicides in Barcelona: PW Talks with Antonio Hill
In Spanish author Hill’s "The Good Suicides," Insp. Hector Salgado must discover why the employees of Almany Cosmetics are killing themselves, one by one.
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