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False Fiction: PW Talks with Carolyn Cooke
Carolyn Cooke, who won the PEN/Robert W. Bingham prize for fiction for her previous story collection, The Bostons, talks to PW about her new collection, Amor and Psycho.
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It’s All Their: PW Talks Grammar and Ineloquence with Ross and Kathryn Petras
It could be said that brother and sister team Ross and Kathryn Petras are scholars of stupidity.
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Doing Business with Hitler: PW Talks with Ben Urwand
In The Collaboration: Hollywood’s Pact with Hitler, Ben Urwand reveals that some movie moguls chose to do business with the Nazis instead of making films about them.
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If I Can Make It There...PW Talks with Sudhir Venkatesh
In Floating City: A Rogue Sociologist Lost and Found in New York’s Underground Economy, Columbia University sociologist Sudhir Venkatesh studies New York City’s criminal underworld.
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The Return of Leaphorn and Chee: PW Talks with Anne Hillerman
Anne Hillerman, the daughter of the late Tony Hillerman, revives her father’s classic Navaho cop series with Spider Woman’s Daughter.
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Finding Love: PW Talks with Graeme Simsion
In Graeme Simsion’s laugh-out-loud debut novel, The Rosie Project, a socially tone-deaf professor seeks his perfect match.
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Q & A with Melissa de la Cruz and Michael Johnston
Although Melissa de la Cruz's husband, Michael Johnston, has been collaborating on all of her YA novels since the first book in the Blue Bloods series, his name has never appeared on the jackets along with his wife's – until now.
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Q & A with Laura Vaccaro Seeger
Author/illustrator Laura Vacarro Seeger's latest work, Bully, introduces a bull who begins bullying other animals after being picked on by a larger bull, and eventually repents.
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Israeli Crime: PW Talks with Liad Shoham
In Lineup, leading Israeli crime writer Liad Shoham explores the complex repercussions of a rape.
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The Story Is to Blame: PW Talks with Juan Gabriel Vasquez
The Sound of Things Falling explores the ways in which stories shape lives.
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The Road to Nov. 22, 1963: PW Talks with Bill Minutaglio and Steven L. Davis
In Dallas 1963, Texans Bill Minutaglio and Steven L. Davis masterfully recreate the atmosphere of fanaticism and hatred in Dallas that preceded the assassination of J.F.K.
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Dead People, Buried Right Under Our Feet: PW Talks with Claudia Piñeiro
A past crime comes back to haunt a Buenos Aires architect in Claudia Piñeiro’s A Crack in the Wall, the latest from Argentina’s leading crime writer.
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Rules of the Digital Road: PW Talks With Anupam Chander
In his new book, The Electronic Silk Road, Cyber-law scholar and University of California-Davis professor Anupam Chander compares trade on the Internet to trade on the ancient Silk Road and examines governments’ role in regulating such complexities of commerce in the information age.
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Infinite Toleration: PW Talks With James Lough
For the lively This Ain’t No Holiday Inn: Down and Out at the Chelsea Hotel 1980-1995, Lough interviewed dozens of former long-term residents to compile an oral record of the hotel’s “grand finale” as sanctuary for artistic, Bohemian personalities under manager Stanley Bard.
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The Last Untold Story of the 1920s: PW Talks with Carla Kaplan
In Miss Anne in Harlem: The White Women of the Black Renaissance, ethnic and gender studies scholar Carla Kaplan reveals the forgotten histories of six rule-breaking women.
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Triage, Tragedy: PW Talks with Sheri Fink
In Five Days at Memorial: Life and Death in a Storm-Ravaged Hospital, Sheri Fink, a journalist with an M.D., expanded on her Pulitzer Prize–winning coverage of the devastating aftermath of Hurricane Katrina at Memorial Medical Center in New Orleans, where one doctor and two nurses were put on trial for ostensibly hastening the deaths of patients.
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A Cockney Spy: PW Talks with John Lawton
John Lawton, best known for his Inspector Troy series (A Lily of the Field, etc.), introduces a new protagonist, Joe Wilderness, in Then We Take Berlin.
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Omega Point: PW Talks with Paul Harding
In Enon, Paul Harding returns to the same New England landscape and family that won him the Pulitzer Prize for Tinkers.
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Prodigal Prodigy: PW Talks With Peter von Ziegesar
PEN Short Fiction Award-winner von Ziegesar’s memoir, The Looking Glass Brother, considers the trials and tribulations he faced revisiting his turbulent childhood while starting his own family and caring for his homeless younger stepbrother—who also happens to be named Peter.
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Research & Destroy: PW Talks With Clifton Leaf
Leaf, former executive editor at SmartMoney and Fortune magazines, delivers The Truth in Small Doses: Why We’re Losing the War on Cancer and How to Win It. A cancer survivor himself, he shows that despite enormous funding the cancer death rate has changed little in 40 years and recommends steps to change the research system.
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