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Remembering the Kennedys: PW Talks with Kitty Kelley
Known for her bestselling investigative biographies, Kitty Kelley takes a new direction in Capturing Camelot: Stanley Tretick’s Iconic Images of the Kennedys, which features more than 200 photos from Tretick, a close friend of Kelley’s who, upon his death in 1999, left her a treasure trove of memorabilia from his days covering the Kennedy White House.
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Bad Timing: PW Talks with Aria Beth Sloss
In Autobiography of Us, debut novelist Aria Beth Sloss explores women’s coming of age before the sexual revolution and the secrecy and silence that governed both sexes at the time.
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An Important American Story: PW Talks with Ayana Mathis
Ayana Mathis’s elegant, sure-footed debut, The Twelve Tribes of Hattie, traces a woman’s life through the eyes of her many children.
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From the Silence...PW Talks with Katherine Bouton
Many people have a crystal-clear memory of a pivotal moment in their lives—a wedding, a child’s first word. For former New York Times senior editor Katherine Bouton, it was the day she realized she was going deaf. In her memoir, Shouting Won’t Help: Why I—and 50 Million Other Americans—Can’t Hear You, she recounts her struggles with hearing loss and the shame, guilt, anxiety, and revelations that came with it.
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Three Centuries of Change: PW Talks with Daniel Brook
In A History of Future Cities, journalist Daniel Brook (The Trap) explores the origin stories and transformations of St. Petersburg, Russia; Mumbai, India; Shanghai, China; and Dubai, UAE.
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A (Fatal) Drop in the Blood: PW Talks with Oliver Pötzsch
Oliver Pötzsch’s third thriller in his Hangman’s Daughter series, The Beggar King, again taps into his ancestry.
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Quantum Leap: PW Talks with Ned Beauman
English author Ned Beauman’s new novel, The Teleportation Accident, is a dizzying noirish put-on that races through Berlin, Paris, Hollywood, and Caltech in the 1930s. And, oh, yes, there are Nazis.
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PW Talks with NBA Medalist William Alexander
Rubbing elbows with the likes of Louise Erdrich and Dave Eggers came as a bit of a shock to author William Alexander, who received the NBA for Young People's Literature for his first novel, Goblin Secrets.
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Q & A with Henry Cole
The illustrator of some 80 picture books – some of which he wrote, some penned by other authors – Henry Cole is a versatile children's book creator. In his latest solo effort, Unspoken: A Story from the Underground Railroad, a wordless picture book about a girl who discovers – and protects – a runaway slave hiding in her family's barn.
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Q & Art with Jeff Kinney
The seventh book in the Diary of a Wimpy Kid series, The Third Wheel, landed in stores nationwide on Tuesday, November 11. We took the opportunity to ask series creator Jeff Kinney a few questions.
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Why Did the Bullet Explode? PW Talks with Stephen Hunter
In Stephen Hunter’s The Third Bullet, master sniper Bob Lee Swagger investigates a conspiracy behind the JFK assassination.
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The Crazy Elements: PW Talks with George Saunders
In George Saunders’s fourth collection of stories, Tenth of December, the MacArthur Genius Fellow gives us 10 tales of alternating absurdity and horror; but all are permeated with a capacious feeling of humanity.
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Q & A with Joe Schreiber
Perry's Killer Playlist is Joe Schreiber's second YA novel, a sequel to last year's Au Revoir, Crazy European Chick. Both are classic stories of boy meets girl (assassin), with the new book taking teenage Perry and his rock band to Europe, home to Gobija Zaksauskas, a foreign exchange student who turned out to be a killer-for-hire.
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A Hollywood Director's Children's Book Debut
Usually, it's the book that spawns the movie. But in Gary Ross’s case, it was a 1996 movie that spawned his children's book, Bartholomew Biddle and the Very Big Wind (Candlewick) illustrated by Matthew Myers, which will be released November 13.
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Writing What Scares You: PW Talks with Jennifer McMahon
In The One I Left Behind, 13-year-old Reggie Dufrane thinks she has lost her mother, Vera, to a serial killer—until, more than two decades later, she discovers Vera is alive.
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Famous Monsters: PW Talks with Manuel Gonzales
Manuel Gonzales gave up a successful Austin, Tex., pie company to write. The Miniature Wife (Reviews, Oct. 22; pub date, Jan.), a collection of short stories, is his debut.
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To the Ends of the Earth: PW Talks with Melanie Challenger
In her nonfiction debut, On Extinction: How We Became Estranged from Nature (Reviews, Oct. 1; pub date, Dec.), poet Melanie Challenger meditates on evolutionary changes marked by extinctions, and asks what's next for the human race.
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The Medieval Jewish Question: PW Talks with Priscilla Royal
In The Sanctity of Hate, Priscilla Royal explores 13th-century English anti-Semitism.
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Q & A with Andrew Smith
Andrew Smith has developed a reputation as a writer who isn't afraid of portraying evil in its most graphic form, and that includes his hallucinatory new horror fantasy, Passenger, a sequel to The Marbury Lens.
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Life in Art: PW Talks with Ali Smith
In Artful, novelist Ali Smith bends the possibilities of form and fact for an altogether riveting reflection on art and life.
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