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Druidic Designs: PW Talks with Graham Robb
Robb’s The Discovery of Middle Earth: Mapping the Lost World of the Celts takes a look at how the indigenous, pre-Roman people of Europe plotted their whole world according to a complex web of “solstice lines.”
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Bombs Away: PW Talks with Sara Paretsky
Critical Mass, Sara Paretsky’s 17th crime novel featuring Chicago private eye V.I. Warshawski, explores a present-day missing persons case—and pre-WWII Austria.
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Friendship as Survival Tactic: PW Talks with Beverly Gologorsky
Beverly Gologorsky’s novel Stop Here examines the impact of the war in Iraq on blue collar families in Long Island, N.Y., focusing on women, as she did in the case of the Vietnam War in her debut novel, The Things We Do to Make It Home, which was first published in 1999.
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Video: Gene Luen Yang on 'Boxers' and 'Saints'
Acclaimed graphic novelist Gene Luen Yang is back with a stunning pair of graphic novels, Boxers and Saints. We caught up with Yang at BookExpo America 2013 to talk about what inspired him to create the books.
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Q & A with Holly Black
In her new novel, The Coldest Girl in Coldtown, Holly Black takes on a topic that might seem to have been done to death – vampires – but somehow she's produced another winner.
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Others of His Kind: PW Talks With James Sallis
Sallis’s latest, Others of My Kind, is a powerful, unsettling novella about a brilliant video editor who was abducted as a child and spent two years living in a box under her captor’s bed before escaping and building a life for herself. We caught up with Sallis on the eve of publication to discuss his latest work.
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Disassembly Line: PW Talks with Karen Dietrich
Dietrich's The Girl Factory is a haunting memoir about coping with mental illness, her mother's as well as her own, and growing up as a girl in a world seemingly filled with dangerous and volatile men.
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The Citizen-Soldier Gap: PW Talks with Andrew J. Bacevich
After serving in the U.S. Army for 23 years and retiring at the rank of colonel, Andrew J. Bacevich went on to publish several books (including 2010’s bestselling Washington Rules: America’s Path to Permanent War) and teach history and international relations at Boston University.
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Going Dutch: PW Talks with Russell Shorto
In Amsterdam: A History of the World’s Most Liberal City, historian and journalist Shorto examines the factors behind the city’s emergence as a center of social, political, and economic freedom.
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Shadow Selves: PW Talks with Hilton Als
In the essay collection White Girls, New Yorker critic and famed provocateur Hilton Als analyzes “the white shadow” in American literature, art, and culture.
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The Passion of Anna: PW Talks with Sissel-Jo Gazan
Sissel-Jo Gazan’s science-driven thriller, The Dinosaur Feather, has been hailed as one of the best crime novels of the last decade in her native Denmark.
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Women and Children First: PW Talks with Jayne Anne Phillips
Phillips’s new novel, Quiet Dell, provides a rich account of a sordid crime that took place in
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Q & A with Peter Brown
In Peter Brown's Mr. Tiger Goes Wild, the eponymous feline shuns drab Victorian convention, trading his top hat and coat for a naked romp through the jungle.
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Reamed Out: PW Talks with Nicholas A. Basbanes
In On Paper: The Everything of Its Two-Thousand-Year History, bibliophile Nicholas A. Basbanes brings to life the history, versatility, and cultural importance of this ubiquitous material.
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It Was a Very Good Year: PW Talks with Luke Barr
In Provence, 1970, Luke Barr tells the story of how his great-aunt M.F.K. Fisher, together with Julia Child and James Beard, reinvented American taste.
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Fiction as an Extension of Fact: PW Talks with Martin Fletcher
Martin Fletcher explores the experiences of European Jews right after the Holocaust in Jacob’s Oath.
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Goodbye to Old Friends: PW Talks with Dan Simmons
Dan Simmons tackles Mount Everest in his new novel, The Abominable, with a mix of genres, an absence of certainty, and reams of research.
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Son of Son of Sam: PW Talks With Geoffrey Girard
In Geoffrey Girard’s new book Cain’s Blood, serial killers are cloned in a military-funded scientific program. The author is simultaneously publishing a YA version of the story entitled Project Cain, told from the perspective of one of the clones.
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The Social Production Network: PW Talks With Antonio Negri
In his collection of essays entitled The Winter is Over, Negri, a dyed-in-the-wool Marxist and eminent political philosopher, imparts penetrating analyses and reflections on the changing economic and political landscape.
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Q & A with Gris Grimly
PW talked to illustrator Gris Grimly about his version Mary Shelley's Frankenstein and the perils of tackling a story after so many others have had a go at it.
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