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Video: Colum McCann on 'TransAtlantic'
We talk with Colum McCann about his new book, "TransAtlantic," what inspired him to write it, and the two novels he has sitting in a drawer.
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Art and Activism: PW Talks with Ruth Feldstein
In How It Feels to Be Free: Black Women Entertainers and the Civil Rights Movement (Oxford Univ., Jan.), Feldstein examines the ways in which a loosely-connected group of black women mingled celebrity, art, and activism in the 1960s and ‘70s.
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Blurring the Genre Line: PW Talks with Rachel Cantor
Rachel Cantor’s wildly original first book, "A Highly Unlikely Scenario" (Melville, Jan.), follows the adventures of Leonard, a loveable shut-in and great listener whose only contact with the outside world comes through his job manning Neetsa Pizza’s complaints hotline.
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American Antiheroes: PW Talks with Paul Martin
Former National Geographic editor Martin’s Villains, Scoundrels, and Rogues: Incredible True Tales of Mischief and Mayhem profiles some of the most abominable and inventive criminals in American history.
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Providence Is Different: PW Talks with Bruce DeSilva
In Bruce DeSilva’s third Liam Mulligan crime novel, Providence Rag, the reporter/sleuth must balance honesty with public safety.
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Joyful Vulgarity: PW Talks with Christopher Moore
Christopher Moore’s The Serpent of Venice is a sequel to Fool that mashes up Poe and two Shakespearean tragedies—Othello and The Merchant of Venice—and is set in 13th-century Italy.
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Q & A with Karen Foxlee
Australian novelist Karen Foxlee's new quasi-fairy tale, "Ophelia and the Marvelous Boy," follows a girl on a quest within a fantastical and dangerous museum.
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Q & A with Wendy McClure
With "Wanderville," memoirist, editor, columnist and blogger Wendy McClure has donned yet another hat – children's novelist.
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Life Lessons: PW Talks with David Menasche
First-time memoirist David Menasche is the kind of teacher who cares about his students as much as the literature on his syllabus, remembering his pupils’ insights and strengths, keeping in touch with them long after their shared classroom time ends.
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Emotional Recalibrations: PW Talks with Jenny Offill
Dept. of Speculation is marked by Offill’s clever and subtle language, as well as references to everything from Lynyrd Sknyrd lyrics to Rilke and Einstein, in showing the experience of marriage and motherhood for a young woman.
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Dreaming His Way into Abraham Lincoln: PW Talks with Jerome Charyn
In I Am Abraham, Jerome Charyn audaciously creates President Lincoln’s autobiography.
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The Kumquat Killer: PW Talks with Ruth Kassinger
After a curious home-gardening failure, Kassinger embarked on a botanical education, which she shares in A Garden of Marvels: How We Discovered That Flowers Have Sex, Leaves Eat Air, and Other Secrets of the Way Plants Work.
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The Seven-Year Itch: PW Talks with Kem Nunn
For the past seven years novelist Kem Nunn has been busying it up in Hollywood writing for TV shows such as Deadwood and John from Cincinnati.
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Imperfect Relationships: PW Talks with Yiyun Li
In Kinder Than Solitude, the atmosphere of social upheaval in 1980s China is reflected in the relationship between three teenage friends whose lives are changed by a murder.
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Curtain Call: PW Talks with Armistead Maupin
With The Days of Anna Madrigal, Armistead Maupin brings his 12-character-based Tales of the City series, set in San Francisco, to a close after 40 years.
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Mixing Danger and Technology: PW Talks with Patrick Lee
Patrick Lee makes his hardcover debut with Runner, a thriller that teams a compassionate former Delta Ranger, Sam Dryden, and a 12-year-old girl trained by the government to read minds.
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Urban Legend: PW Talks with Kevin Cook
In Kitty Genovese: The Murder, the Bystanders, the Crime That Changed America, journalist Kevin Cook disproves the myth of the 38 unresponsive bystanders.
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Modern Love Guide: PW Talks with Sara Eckel
In her upcoming book, It’s Not You: 27 (Wrong) Reasons You’re Single (Perigee, Jan.), Sara Eckel debunks the conventional wisdom as to why women of a certain age are still single.
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Myth and Resilience: PW Talks with David Pilling
In Bending Adversity: Japan and the Art of Survival, Financial Times Asia editor David Pilling offers a panoramic portrait of contemporary Japan.
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Alphabet Coup: PW Talks with Ewan Clayton
In The Golden Thread: The Story of Writing, calligraphy expert Clayton explores the history of writing in all its aspects, focusing on the evolution of the Roman alphabet and its impact on civilization.
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