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The Sublime Roach: PW Talks with Mary Roach
In Gulp: Adventures on the Alimentary Canal, Mary Roach blurs the line between the repugnant and the mesmerizing.
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War with the Neuts: PW Talks with Deb Taber
In Deb Taber’s Necessary Ill, sexless neuters form secret enclaves of scientists and artists. Neuters called spreaders engineer and spread plagues intended to prevent a human overpopulation disaster—until one goes too far.
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Evita’s Afterlife: PW Talks with Gregory Widen
In screenwriter Gregory Widen’s first novel, Blood Makes Noise, a junior CIA officer and an Argentinian revolutionary each has his reasons for seeking to protect the corpse of Evita Perón.
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Q & A with Michael B. Kaplan
Michael B. Kaplan's heroine returns this month in Betty Bunny Didn't Do It (illustrated by Stéphane Jorisch), which has the crafty rabbit blaming the Tooth Fairy for a broken lamp.
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Mystery Captures the Zeitgeist: PW Talks with C.S. Harris
C.S. Harris returns to Regency England with her eighth historical whodunit, What Darkness Brings.
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The Death and Life of Great French Cities: PW Talks with Stephane Kirkland
In Paris Reborn: Napoleon III, Baron Haussmann and the Quest to Build a Modern City, urban planning and architecture blogger Stephane Kirkland describes the Second Empire transformation of the City of Light from a medieval maze to a modern metropolis.
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Write Them All and Let Editors Sort It Out: PW Talks with Kit Reed
The novel Son of Destruction, in which a man seeking his father ends up investigating spontaneous human combustion, and the collection The Story Until Now showcase Reed’s skill and literary breadth.
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Men at Work: PW Talks with D.A. Mishani
Israeli scholar D.A. Mishani’s first novel, The Missing File, launches a series featuring an Israeli detective, Avraham Avraham.
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A Different Kind of Intimacy: PW Talks with James Salter
James Salter returns to long-form fiction with All That Is, his first novel since the late 1970s.
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Q & A with Rainbow Rowell
Rainbow Rowell's YA debut, Eleanor & Park, a love story set in Omaha about two outsiders, hits stores soon. She spoke with PW about realistic romance, the power of music, and not being precious about writing.
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Bringing in the Trash: PW Talks with Robin Nagle
Anthropologist-in-residence at New York City’s Department of Sanitation, Robin Nagle, has always been obsessed with garbage.
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Giving Chicago Its Due: PW Talks with Thomas Dyja
In The Third Coast: When Chicago Built the American Dream, native son Thomas Dyja offers a panoramic look at how the Windy City influenced postwar American culture.
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Demons by Daylight: PW Talks with Andrew Pyper
In Andrew Pyper’s The Demonologist, a Milton scholar encounters a possible case of demonic possession.
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Continental Drift: PW Talks with Taiye Selasi
In her gorgeous debut novel, Ghana Must Go, London-born Taiye Selasi traces the residue of sacrifices we make in the name of family.
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Q & A with Nancy Carpenter
Versatile illustrator Nancy Carpenter spoke with PW about her illustrations for Lucky Ducklings, Eva Moore's story of a group of Montauk townspeople who save five ducklings from a storm drain.
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Scanning the Future: PW Talks with Jeff John Roberts
You know the end is near for the long-running Google litigation when the books start coming out.
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Fighting for a Man’s Freedom: PW Talks with Barry Siegel
In Manifest Injustice, Pulitzer Prize–winning journalist Barry Siegel recounts the Arizona Justice Project’s decades-long struggle to free Bill Macumber, a man they contend was wrongfully convicted of murder.
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Going Nowhere: PW Talks with Barbara Garson
In Down the Up Escalator: How the 99 Percent Live in the Great Recession, journalist and playwright Barbara Garson (All the Livelong Day) explores America’s economic woes through the travails of ordinary people.
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One Tough Broad: PW Talks with Becky Masterman
In Becky Masterman’s debut, Rage Against the Dying, retired FBI agent Brigid Quinn tries to build a “normal” life, but a serial killer from her past causes trouble.
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Q & A with Ruta Sepetys
The bestselling author of the highly acclaimed debut Between Shades of Gray, has a new historical novel set in New Orleans in 1950.
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