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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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Q & A with Nancy Farmer
Eleven years after her National Book Award-winning The House of the Scoprion, Nancy Farmer has published a sequel, The Lord of Opium.
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Video: Samantha Shannon on 'The Bone Season' and Her Writer's Tic
Samantha Shannon's debut dystopian fantasy novel, The Bone Season, kicks off a seven-book series. We talk with her about about how she keeps it all straight and much more.
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Poison of Interest: PW Talks with Sandra Hempel
The early days of forensic science are depicted in Sandra Hempel’s The Inheritor’s Powder: A Tale of Arsenic, Murder and the New Forensic Science.
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Splitting Personality: PW Talks with J. Michael Lennon
In Norman Mailer: A Double Life, scholar J. Michael Lennon explores the inner life of the controversial author.
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A Novel in Reverse: PW Talks with Jeffery Deaver
Jeffery Deaver tries something different in The October List, a crime thriller.
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The Long Haul: PW Talks with Lindsay Hill
Sea of Hooks, the product of 20 years of work, is Lindsay Hill’s first novel after six poetry collections.
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Paternal Noir: PW Talks With Douglas Corleone
Former NYC criminal defense attorney Douglas Corleone’s noirish new thriller, Good as Gone, introduces protagonist Simon Fisk, a former US marshal whose new line of work helps fill the void of his missing daughter.
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Stories from Regions of Rift: PW Talks With Thomas Keneally
Keneally’s latest novel The Daughters of Mars explores WWI from the perspective of Australian nurses.
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Necessary Revisionism: PW Talks With Steven Moore
In The Novel: An Alternative History, 1600 – 1800, Moore concentrates on the macro and explores the evolution of an amorphous artform using a constellation of lesser known works.
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Q & A with Lois Duncan
Duncan's Debutante Hill is the first YA classic be to reissued by Ig Publishing's new imprint, Lizzie Skurnick Books.
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Books Are Broken-Limbed Baby Dolls: PW Talks with Hanya Yanagihara
Hanya Yanagihara took almost two decades to finish The People in the Trees. She talks about unreliable narrators, laziness, and making stuff up.
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Video: Rob Sheffield Talks Karaoke, Love and His New Book
Rob Sheffield, author of Turn Around Bright Eyes, about all things karaoke, including the perils of doing your own rendition of Sinatra at a retirement community.
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Alan Gregory’s Goodbye: PW Talks with Stephen White
White keeps readers teetering on a high wire of suspense, closing out his rounding off his 20-novel Alan Gregory psychological thriller series after 20 books with Compound Fractures, a therapeutic exploration of murder, guilt, remorse, and retribution.
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A Landmark Day in Washington: PW Talks with Kitty Kelley
For Let Freedom Ring: Stanley Tretick’s Iconic Images of the March on Washington, biographer Kitty Kelley edited and arranged Tretick’s never-before-published images from August 28, 1963.
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