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Q & A with Sheila Turnage
2013 Newbery Honoree Sheila Turnage returns with "The Ghosts of Tupelo Landing," another charming mystery in desperate need of unraveling by the indefatigable Mo LoBeau.
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Q & A with Trent Reedy
For "Divided We Fall," Trent Reedy draws upon his time as an Army National Guardsman to tell the story of a young man caught up in an impossible struggle that threatens to tear America apart.
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A Tale of Trust and Betrayal: PW Talks with Colette McBeth
A London-based TV news reporter, Rachel Walsh, investigates the disappearance of a young woman who turns out to be her former best friend, in Colette McBeth’s first novel, Precious Thing.
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Artificial Categorizations: PW Talks with Helen Oyeyemi
Nigerian-born Brit Helen Oyeyemi, whose first novel was published when she was 20, is a constant on “best of” lists like Granta’s.
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Cretaceous Traces: PW Talks with Anthony J. Martin
In Dinosaurs Without Bones: Dinosaur Lives Revealed by Their Trace Fossils, paleontologist Martin explores dinosaur life through ichnology—the study of tracks, nests, droppings, and other non-bone relics of ancient life.
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Death Lessons for Life: PW Talks With David R. Dow
As a lawyer who defends inmates on death row, David Dow confronts death on daily basis.
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Q & A with Melissa Gilbert
In "Daisy and Josephine," the "Little House on the Prairie" star's first picture book, a lonely girl travels around the world with her celebrity father, just like Melissa Gilbert did while growing up.
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Four Questions for...Author Tiphanie Yanique
Last month Yanique was awarded the Center for Fiction's Flaherty-Dunnan First Novel Prize for 'Land of Love and Drowning.'
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Junior Ray Returns: Q&A with John Pritchard
John Pritchard talks about Junior Ray’s new adventures as a “diktective” in "Sailing to Alluvium", the third installment of his critically acclaimed series.
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The Teller and the Tale: PW Talks with Walter Kirn
Walter Kirn (Up in the Air) had no idea what he was in for when he agreed to deliver an injured dog to “Clark Rockefeller,” a gifted con man and murderer, and the subject of Kirn’s gripping Blood Will Out: The True Story of a Murder, a Mystery, and a Masquerade.
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‘My Fair Lady’ Meets ‘Psycho’: PW Talks with Jean Zimmerman
A feral child unsettles Gilded Age New York City in Jean Zimmerman’s Savage Girl.
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Forces of Nature: PW Talks with Amy Greene
Greene’s second novel, Long Man, is a family chronicle set in Tennessee, in which a girl disappears and a river keeps rising.
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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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