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Of Weirdness and Magic: PW Talks with Kelly Luce
Kelly Luce’s debut, Three Scenarios in Which Hana Sasaki Grows a Tail (Oct., A Strange Object), is a haunting collection of fantastical short stories about fortune-telling toasters, ways in which a girl may grow a tail, and an instrument measuring one’s capacity to love.
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Gardens from Evil: PW Talks with Lloyd Shepherd
In The Poisoned Island, Lloyd Shepherd’s follow-up to The English Monster, the return to England of a botanical expedition in 1812 is the catalyst for a series of murders.
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The Persistence of Delusion: PW Talks with Rabih Alameddine
Is a life, in and of itself, a work of art? Rabih Alameddine explores the necessity of a solitary translator’s work in his new novel, An Unnecessary Woman.
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250 Children's Books and Counting: A Conversation with Tomie dePaola
In 2015 Tomie dePaola will celebrate his 50th year in publishing and his 40th writing and illustrating his award-winning tales of Strega Nona.
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Video: Nicola Griffith on 'Hild'
Nicola Hild talks about the inspiration for her new novel, Hild, how writing it was different than writing the science fiction she's known for, and which classic writer she just can't stand.
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Lost in Translation: 'PW' Talks with Doug Dorst
In S., filmmaker J.J. Abrams and Doug Dorst (Alive in Necropolis) create a multilayered puzzle via an annotated library copy of a translation of a fictional author’s work.
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Redefining Delicious: PW Talks with Jennie Cook
Jennie Cook uses her years of experience in the California culinary scene to present creative, delicious, and versatile recipes along with smart tips and whimsical anecdotes in her beautifully illustrated cookbook Who Wants Seconds? Sociable Suppers for Vegans, Omnivores and Everyone In Between (Oct., Prospect Park).
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The Military Thriller: PW Talks with James R. Hannibal
Hannibal’s newest, Shadow Catcher (Oct., Berkley), is a psychologically driven thriller that centers on Air Force Major Nick Baron who, after a botched mission in the Persian Gulf, is sent on a mission to rescue a U.S. Air Force officer secretly imprisoned in China.
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Death of a Magical Superpower: PW Talks with Simon Morden
In Arcanum, the kingdom of Carinthia falters when the magic it relies on begins to fade away.
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When You Eliminate the Impossible...PW Talks with Paul Halter
In The Crimson Fog, French master of the impossible crime novel Paul Halter offers his take on the Jack the Ripper mystery.
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Answers to All Our Questions: PW Talks with Sarah Cornwell
Sarah Cornwell’s debut novel What I Had Before I Had You follows several generations of a family with a history of bipolar disorder.
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Message in a Bottle: PW Talks with Olivia Laing
In The Trip to Echo Spring: On Writers and Drinking, Olivia Laing studies six great writers—Ernest Hemingway, F. Scott Fitzgerald, Tennessee Williams, John Cheever, John Berryman, and Raymond Carver—and their fraught relationship with alcohol.
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Alligators Don’t Dance in Zoos: PW Talks with Vladimir Dinets
Dragon Songs: Love and Adventure Among Crocodiles, Alligators, and Other Dinosaur Relations, by zoologist, writer, and explorer Dinets, offers a riveting, global view of crocodilians in the wild.
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The Multilateralist: PW Talks with David Bosco
In Rough Justice: The International Criminal Court in a World of Power Politics, Bosco, assistant professor of international politics and law at American University, analyzes the clash of realism and idealism within the new institution.
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The Return of Wooster and Jeeves: PW Talks with Sebastian Faulks
In Jeeves and the Wedding Bells, Sebastian Faulks pulls off the daunting challenge of recreating P.G. Wodehouse’s beloved characters—the certifiable goof Bertie Wooster and his omniscient valet Jeeves—and plunges them into another brilliantly-farcical story.
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The Nature of Evil: PW Talks with Jack El-Hai
Jack El-Hai’s chilling new book The Nazi and the Psychiatrist (Sept., PublicAffairs) tells the story of the ambitious army psychiatrist Captain Douglas M. Kelley whose examination of high-ranking Nazis as they awaited trail in Nuremberg led him into a dangerously close relationship with Hermann Goring.
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Murder They Wrote: PW Talks with Marcia Muller and Bill Pronzini
Husband-and-wife MWA grand masters Bill Pronzini and Marcia Muller deliver their second mystery featuring a male/female investigative team in 1890s San Francisco, The Spook Lights Affair.
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Strange Silence: PW Talks with Jesse Ball
The mysterious silence of an accused murder suspect in 1970s Japan is at the center of Silence Once Begun.
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Getting Personal: PW Talks with Rebecca Mead
In My Life in Middlemarch—a hybrid work of literary criticism, biography, and memoir—New Yorker staff writer Rebecca Mead returns to being a reader.
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