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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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Why Cuts Get Band-Aids: PW Talks with Claire Cameron
Claire Cameron’s The Bear describes the adventures of a five-year-old girl and her two-year-old brother as they escape from a bear that has attacked their parents while the family is on a camping trip.
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Balistreri’s Way: PW Talks with Roberto Costantini
Italian author Roberto Costantini introduces mercurial Rome Commissario Michele Balistreri in his debut thriller, The Deliverance of Evil—the first of a trilogy.
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Cairo Crime Goes Western: PW Talks With Parker Bilal
The pseudonymous Bilal has written several acclaimed literary novels. His latest, The Ghost Runner (Bloomsbury, Feb.), continues the adventures of Sudanese ex-pat private detective Makana, who previously appeared in The Golden Scales and Dogstar Rising.
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On Translating Science: PW Talks with Elizabeth Kolbert
New Yorker staff writer Kolbert examines the growing global crisis of species loss in her new book, The Sixth Extinction: An Unnatural History.
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Lonely Red Planet: PW Talks with Andy Weir
Andy Weir’s debut novel, The Martian, follows an astronaut stranded on Mars and out of communication with Earth as he attempts to survive an almost impossible situation.
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The Only Seeds Being Sown Were Bullets: PW Talks with Nadifa Mohamed
A brutal confrontation on the eve of the Somali civil war in 1987 brings three women together, in Mohamed’s devastating second novel, The Orchard of Lost Souls.
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Q & A with Laurie Halse Anderson
To write her latest YA novel, The Impossible Knife of Memory, Laurie Halse Anderson tapped into some dark corners of her past.
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Q & A with Cokie Roberts
Author and broadcast journalist Cokie Roberts has written her first children's book, Founding Mothers: Remembering the Ladies.
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Poetry Nation: PW Talks with Richard Blanco
In December of 2012, Richard Blanco received news that he was chosen to compose and recite a poem for the 2013 Inauguration.
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Justice Journalism: PW Talks with Jeremy Scahill
Scahill’s Dirty Wars: The World is a Battlefield (Nation, Apr.) gets deep in the mire of the War on Terror, exposing the machinations behind U.S. special operations warfare and the prosecution of secret wars around the globe.
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End of the Tunnel: PW Talks with Neil Swidey
Boston Globe Magazine staff writer Swidey’s Trapped Under the Sea: One Engineering Marvel, Five Men, and a Disaster Ten Miles into the Darkness chronicles the construction of Boston’s much-heralded Deer Island Sewage Treatment Plant and highlights the complexity of bringing massive public works to completion, including the deaths of two workers on the project.
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Public Health: PW Talks with Deborah Cohen
In A Big Fat Crisis: The Hidden Forces Behind the Obesity Epidemic—And How We Can End It, scientist Deborah Cohen advocates for a “paradigm shift” in addressing obesity.
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Where There’s Smoke: PW Talks with Julie Cannon
In Smoke and Fire, two women overcome their fears and find love against the backdrop of the oil well blowout suppression industry.
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A Good Gruesome Murder: PW Talks with M.R.C. Kasasian
British writer M.R.C. Kasasian’s debut, The Mangle Street Murders, pits a detective duo, Sidney Grice and his female partner, March Middleton, against the perils of Victorian London.
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Actors Waiting Tables: PW Talks with Phillip Margulies
After writing numerous science and history books for children, Phillip Marguiles follows the remarkable life of a madam in his first novel, Belle Cora.
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Q & A with Alison Lester
In Sophie Scott Goes South, Alison Lester recreates her journey from Australia to Antarctica aboard the Aurora Australis through the diary entries of a fictional nine-year-old girl whose father is captain of the ship.
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Religion Can be Healing—or Fatal: PW Talks with Lawrence Wright
One of PW’s Best Books of 2013, Going Clear: Scientology, Hollywood, and the Prison of Belief by Lawrence Wright (Knopf, Jan.) has won rave reviews all around for its meticulous and brave reporting on the origins and development of the celebrity-studded and controversial religion of Scientology.
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Not that type of ‘Bully’: PW Talks with Doris Kearns Goodwin
Historian Doris Kearns Goodwin’s last book, the wildly successful Team of Rivals (2005), offered an account of Abraham Lincoln’s presidency that took over contemporary pop culture.
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‘To Thine Own Profile Be True’: PW Talks with Randi Zuckerberg
The digital age is hard to navigate.
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