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Outlaw Commentator: PW Talks With David A. Stockman
In his massive new tome, The Great Deformation, former Reagan budget director Stockman outlines the ways a renewed Keynesianism has corrupted the Reagan Revolution’s ideal of an economy based on free markets.
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Tktktk: PW Talks With Ann Percy
As Curator of Drawings at the Philadelphia Museum of Art, Percy has compiled Great and Mighty Things, which catalogues an extensive—and mind-bending—exhibition of “outsider” art from the museum’s Jill and Sheldon Bonovitz Collection.
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Q & A with Jennifer E. Smith
In Jennifer E. Smith's new YA novel, This Is What Happy Looks Like, a young Hollywood heartthrob accidentally sends an email to a smart, small-town girl, and a relationship blossoms – but a family secret threatens the romance.
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Q & A with Shirley Hughes
Award-winning author and illustrator Shirley Hughes's first novel, Hero on a Bicycle, a highly charged thriller set in Nazi-occupied Florence in 1944, will be released this month.
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Crisis and Opportunity: PW Talks With Michael D’Antonio
In Mortal Sins: Sex, Crime, and the Era of Catholic Scandal, reporter D’Antonio limns the revelations of endemic sexual abuse in the Catholic Church, which may have led to the Pope’s resignation.
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The Editor Speaks: PW Talks with Anthony Arnove
Actor Colin Firth faltered, found his footing, and finally spoke like a true noble by the end of the 2010 film The King’s Speech.
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Put Your Head on His Shoulder: PW Talks with Paul Anka
The 1960s pop star and song writer Paul Anka tells of his early rise to stardom and the friend he made along the way in My Way.
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Western Tales of Today: PW Talks with Craig Johnson
A polygamy group causes trouble for Walt Longmire in A Serpent’s Tooth, Craig Johnson’s ninth novel to feature the Wyoming sheriff, now the star of the A&E TV series Longmire.
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World Domination or Death: PW Talks with Sjón
With The Whispering Muse, The Blue Fox, and From the Mouth of the Whale being published on the same day in the U.S., there’s no doubt that Icelandic writer Sjón is coming to America.
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Vance and Burr’s ‘On The Ropes': A Sequel 20 Years in the Making
Writer James Vance and artist Dan E. Burr have reunited after 25 years to create On the Ropes, a sequel to their acclaimed graphic novel, Kings in Disguise. On the Ropes was published in March by W.W. Norton
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Marscarpone and Memories: PW Talks With Tessa Kiros
Tessa Kiros blends homemaking tips with recipes in Recipes and Dreams from an Italian Life, a warm and welcoming keepsake readers will want to return to again and again.
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Q & A with Kathy Reichs
Out this month, Code, the third installment in the Virals YA series, written by author and Bones creator Kathy Reichs and her son, Brendan.
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Learning to Adult: PW Talks with Kelly Williams Brown
Kelly Williams Brown sketches the elusive formula for a successful coming-of-age in her cleverly organized guide for 20-somethings, Adulting.
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Strange Days: PW Talks with George Packer
In The Unwinding: An Inner History of the New America, New Yorker staff writer George Packer utilizes individual stories of haves and have-nots to examine the last four decades of America in decline.
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Murder in Ancient Athens: PW Talks with Gary Corby
In Australian author Gary Corby’s Sacred Games, his second ancient historical, Athenian sleuth Nico must solve a murder in the midst of the Olympic Games.
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Jigsaw Puzzle: PW Talks with Anthony Marra
Anthony Marra’s debut novel, A Constellation of Vital Phenomena, is “a war story that’s about surgeons, not soldiers.”
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Deciphering Lives: PW Talks with Margalit Fox
In The Riddle of the Labyrinth, linguist and obituary writer Margalit Fox chronicles three key figures in the decipherment of Linear B, an ancient Mycenaean script.
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Murder in Kenya: PW Talks With Richard Crompton
In Hour of the Red God, Richard Crompton crafts a subtle whodunit against the backdrop of 2007 elections in Kenya.
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Catching Up with the 'Deliriously' Busy Lauren Oliver
PW Bookshelf caught up with busy author Lauren Oliver following her eight-day, eight-city tour promoting the release of Requiem, the final book in her Delirium trilogy.
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Q & A with David Ezra Stein
Award-winning author/illustrator David Ezra Klein's newest title, Ol' Mama Squirrel, tells the story of a resolute rodent prepared to do anything necessary to protect her babies from danger.
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