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Not Too Taboo? PW Talks with Jesse Bering
In Perv: The Sexual Deviant in All of Us, Jesse Bering tackles some of the most sensitive issues in our society—rape, pedophila, and sexual fetishism, to name just a few—through science and reason.
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Mother, Activist, Writer, Spy: PW Talks with Valerie Plame
Former CIA agent Valerie Plame makes her first venture into fiction with Blowback (Reviews, July 29; pub date, Oct. 1), the first in a spy thriller series.
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Ships in Bottles: PW Talks with Laura van den Berg
In Laura van den Berg’s The Isle of Youth, tales of teenage bank robbers and girl detectives uncover the secrets that connect us to “the larger mysteries of the self.”
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Helping Veterans after Action: How One Indie Author Is Making A Difference
Through writing, I came to understand my experiences in a way that could help other veterans -- past, present, and future -- deal with the aftermath of war. I felt what I had learned was important enough to share with others and was determined to make it available, publisher or not.
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'PW' Talks with John Mantooth about 'The Year of the Storm'
John Mantooth talks about why he believes characters are paramount to great story, how he pulled from his own life to write The Year of the Storm, and the importance of small wonders.
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The Private Life of an Assassin: PW Talks with Priscilla Johnson McMillan
Priscilla Johnson McMillan’s Marina and Lee, reissued for the 50th anniversary of the assassination of President John F. Kennedy, examines Lee Harvey Oswald’s dark psyche though the eyes of his Russian wife.
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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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