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Problem Solver: PW Talks with Caleb Crain
Caleb Crain’s rich debut novel, Necessary Errors, focuses on Jacob Putnam, a young American man living in Prague in the early 1990s.
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Connecticut Parking Lot Blues: PW Talks With Dan Kennedy
Kennedy, host of The Moth storytelling series and podcast, moves from memoir to novel with American Spirit, which centers on unemployed, recently-divorced 40-something Matthew Harris’s battle against mid-life despair.
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Mob to Mayor: PW Talks With Oscar Goodman
In Goodman’s entertaining memoir, Being Oscar, he shares stories from his 35-year career as a criminal attorney defending mob personalities as well as the following dozen years serving as mayor of Las Vegas.
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Q & A with Tom McNeal
We speak with the author about his new novel, Far Far Away, a modern fairy tale.
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Under False Pretenses: PW Talks with Roxana Robinson
The prolific Roxana Robinson's latest novel, Sparta, is a moving account of one soldier’s struggle to adjust after returning home from Iraq.
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An Avenging Angel of Economic Crime: PW Talks with Ian Hamilton
In Ian Hamilton’s third novel featuring Ava Lee, The Wild Beasts of Wuhan, the forensic accountant looks into a case of art fraud.
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Pride & Premonition: PW Talks with Curtis Sittenfeld
Curtis Sittenfeld explores familial loyalty and dysfunction in Sisterland, a tale of Kate and Violet, identical twins with ESP.
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From Biologist to Writer: PW Talks with Aaron Hirsh
Biologist Aaron Hirsh intersects science and storytelling in Telling Our Way to the Sea: A Voyage of Discovery in the Sea of Cortez.
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Occult Illuminator: PW Talks With Paul Kleber Monod
In Solomon’s Secret Arts: The Occult in the Age of Enlightenment, Middlebury College history professor Monod challenges contemporary assumptions that the Enlightenment successfully quashed belief in disciplines—like astrology, witchcraft, and alchemy—that were not founded in reason.
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Still Thirsty: PW Talks With Tom Acitelli
Acitelli knows beer. A regular contributor to All About Beer magazine, his first book, The Audacity of Hops, is the definitive study of the remarkable evolution of America’s craft beer industry.
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Like a Phoenix: PW Talks with Mary Kay Andrews
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Mysteries from the Slush Pile: PW Talks with Barbara Rogan
New York literary agent Jo Donovan reluctantly becomes a muse for a deranged writer who won’t take no for an answer in Barbara Rogan’s debut mystery, A Dangerous Fiction.
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A Better Day: PW Talks with Taylor Jenkins Reid
In Forever, Interrupted, nine days after Elsie and Ben elope, he dies in a car accident. Debut author Taylor Jenkins Reid skillfully traces the couple’s six-month courtship throughout the book.
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Circuitous About Sex: PW Talks with Ashley Cardiff
In her memoir, Night Terrors: Sex, Dating, Puberty, and Other Alarming Things, Ashley Cardiff dishes on sexuality and growing up in an age of anxiety.
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Voices of Dissent: PW Talks with Karima Bennoune
Human-rights lawyer, activist, and U.C. Davis professor Karima Bennoune channels the diverse artists and human-rights workers resisting extremism in Muslim-majority countries in Your Fatwa Does Not Apply Here.
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Shooting the Sh*t: PW Talks With David Waltner-Toews
Veterinarian and epidemiologist Waltner-Toews’s The Origin of Feces is a comprehensive look at the social and ecological history of excrement, and global problems we face today.
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Organic Food Nation: PW Talks with Forrest Pritchard
In Gaining Ground, Forrest Pritchard recounts his against-all-odds story of taking his struggling family livestock farm into the growing organic farmers’ market movement in ways that will make you reconsider how and where you purchase your food.
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Q & A with Cecil Castellucci and Sara Varon
PW spoke with illustrator Sara Varon and writer Castellucci to hear about how two self-proclaimed odd ducks combined forces to create Odd Duck, an unconventional – and very funny – book.
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Conspiring with the Enemy: PW Talks With Arturo Fontaine
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Time, Space, and Other Problems: PW Talks with James Kelman
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