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Billion Dollar Antlers: PW Talks With Al Cambronne
In Deerland, Cambronne, a writer and photographer from northwestern Wisconsin, examines the ecological impact of America’s multibillion-dollar deer hunting industry.
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Hell in a Very Cold Place: PW Talks with Mitchell Zuckoff
In Frozen in Time, Mitchell Zuckoff recounts the ordeal of a B-17 bomber crew stranded on the Greenland ice cap in 1942.
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Out Loud and Proud: PW Talks with Dan Savage
In American Savage: Insights, Slights, and Fights on Faith, Sex, Love, and Politics, outspoken sex columnist and gay-rights activist Dan Savage (The Kid) tells the world what’s wrong with it.
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Telling the Victims’ Stories: PW Talks with Robert Kolker
Reporter Robert Kolker examines the troubled lives and lurid ends of a quintet of call girls—possibly the victims of a serial killer (or killers)—in Lost Girls: An Unsolved American Mystery.
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The Ghost of History: PW Talks with Lauren Beukes
The survivor of a savage attack stalks a time-traveling serial killer in South African writer Lauren Beukes’s The Shining Girls.
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The Uncertainty Principle: PW Talks with Gabriel Roth
In Gabriel Roth’s elegant and keenly perceptive debut, The Unknowns, a nerdy software developer faces a steep learning curve when navigating his first real romantic relationship.
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Caroline Kennedy, Poetry Advocate
With her fourth anthology, Poems to Learn by Heart, editor Caroline Kennedy continues to champion the literary form.
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Q & A with Brent Hartinger
Having just self-published The Elephant of Surprise, the fourth book in his Russel Middlebrook series, Brent Hartinger is at the forefront of trends in self-publishing and gayYA fiction.
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We Will Rock You: PW Talks with Mike Parker Pearson
In Stonehenge: A New Understanding, Mike Parker Pearson, the leader of a groundbreaking archaeological study of the Stonehenge World Heritage Site, proposes an exciting new theory of the wonder of the ancient world and its lesser-known neighboring Neolithic sites.
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Murder in Space: PW Talks with Adam Roberts
In the BSFA Award–winning Jack Glass, British author Roberts turns the science fiction whodunit inside out and upside down.
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Old Boys in a Young Man’s Game: PW Talks with Charles McCarry
In retired CIA officer Charles McCarry’s stand-alone thriller The Shanghai Factor, an American sleeper agent posted to Shanghai falls for a beautiful young Chinese woman who may be a spy for China’s government.
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Spies Like Us: PW Talks with Elliott Holt
Ex-expat Elliott Holt’s sly debut novel, You Are One of Them, follows Sarah Zuckerman, who travels to Moscow in 1995 to unravel a mystery from the Cold War years involving her childhood best friend.
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The Art of Science Writing: PW Talks with Thomas Hayden and Michelle Nijhuis: Focus on Reference 2012
Chronicling advances and research in the science world presents new challenges these days.
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Pleasure Politics: PW Talks With the Authors of 'The Feminist Porn Book'
The Feminist Porn Book collects essays that explore a grassroots movement that challenging traditional perspectives on pornography and feminism.
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The Transcribed Life: PW Talks With Kenneth Goldsmith
Poet Goldsmith’s Seven American Deaths and Disasters collages transcriptions of news reports and broadcasts of tragic, iconic events in American history. In doing so, he repackages the language of the media as it struggles with horrific events as they unfold.
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Q & A with Bob Staake
A bluebird befriends a lonely boy – and risks its life to protect him in a city park – in Bob Staake's wordless picture book, Bluebird.
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Q & A with Beth Reekles
The 17-year-old's self-published novel, The Kissing Booth, garnered millions of reads online – and landed the author a contract with Random House.
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Unmastered Angel: PW Talks with Katherine Angel
Poetic, intelligent, and unrelenting, Katherine Angel’s Unmastered: A Book on Desire, Most Difficult to Tell is a “thinking woman’s meditation” on sexual desire, language, politics, and the quest for individual liberation.
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Writing What You Want to Read: PW Talks with Ingrid Thoft
Ingrid Thoft’s first novel, Loyalty, introduces Fina Ludlow, house PI for her family’s Boston law firm.
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Southern Man: PW Talks with Kent Wascom
Native son Kent Wascom’s harrowing debut novel, Blood of Heaven, explores the often violent history of the early-19th-century region known as West Florida through the eyes of the fictional Angel Woolsack and the historic Samuel Kemper, both itinerant preachers’ sons.
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