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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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Q & A with Deborah Ellis
Deborah Ellis’s new novel, My Name Is Parvana is a follow-up to her Breadwinner trilogy about 11-year old Parvana, who disguises herself as a boy in order to work and support her family, and her friend Shauzia’s struggle to get out of an Afghan refugee camp.
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Q & A with Lemony Snicket
Lemony Snicket returns, this time narrating his own story, rather than that sad saga about the Baudelaire orphans. The four-book series, titled All the Wrong Questions, begins with Who Could That Be at This Hour?, in which readers meet Lemony at age 12, as he embarks on his first mission for whoever it is he works for.
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The Big Uneasy: PW Talks with Ed Kovacs
The murder of a U.S. government “black projects” engineer in New Orleans propels Good Junk, Ed Kovacs’s second novel featuring PI Cliff St. James.
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Life at the End of the World: PW Talks with Andri Snaer Magnason
Icelandic author Andri Snaer Magnason laments the world’s energy crisis and failing environmental policies in every project he touches. The novel LoveStar is his latest manifesto.
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Extraordinary Children: PW Talks with Andrew Solomon
Andrew Solomon’s new book from Scribner, Far from the Tree, is a behemoth worth every one of its 976 pages.
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Q & A with Jasper Fforde
Best known for his literary spoofs starring detective Thursday Next, British author Jasper Fforde dips into the YA pool with The Last Dragonslayer, first in a trilogy about an orphan who finds herself in charge of a boarding house/employment agency for wizards and magicians. Fforde spoke with Bookshelf while in Atlanta as part of a month-long U.S. tour, about his inspiration for the new series.
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Video: Daniel Handler on Lemony Snicket and 'Who Could That Be at This Hour?'
Bestselling author Daniel Handler talks about his relationship with Lemony Snicket and his new book, 'Who Could That Be at This Hour?'
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Q & A with Stephen Savage
Stephen Savage, whose latest book, Little Tug, is out this month, shares the story of his artistic beginnings.
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Off the Grid: PW Talks with Jared Diamond
Pulitzer Prize–winning author and UCLA professor of geography Jared Diamond applies his experiences and research in The World Until Yesterday: What Can We Learn from Traditional Societies?
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God Is the Gift of Desperation: PW Talks with Anne Lamott
Anne Lamott fans who can’t get enough of her trademark humorous-neurotic-spiritual voice will thank their Higher Power for a second book this year from the essayist and novelist. (Earlier in 2012 Lamott published Some Assembly Required, about unexpectedly becoming a grandmother.) Help Thanks Wow: The Three Essential Prayers is what you would get if you crossed Brother Lawrence’s religious classic The Practice of the Presence of God with a Tina Fey routine.
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Father Doesn't Always Know Best: PW Talks with Robert Gottlieb
Former Knopf and New Yorker editor–in-chief Robert Gottlieb illuminates Charles Dickens’s family life in Great Expectations: The Sons and Daughters of Charles Dickens.
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Steamboats, Mermaids, and the Hudson River: PW Talks with Mark Siegel
Produced over the course of nine years of research, writing, and drawing, Sailor Twain, the story of mysterious doings on a 19th-century steamboat plying the Hudson River, is a debut graphic novel by Mark Seigel, author of graphic nonfiction as well as children’s books, and editorial director of First Second Books, Macmillan’s graphic novel imprint.
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Who or What Done It? PW Talks with Peter F. Hamilton
In Great North Road, space opera master Hamilton blends near-future science fiction with a pair of murder mysteries.
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Thin Man Encore: PW Talks with Julie M. Rivett
Return of the Thin Man, edited by Dashiell Hammett scholar Richard Layman and Hammett’s granddaughter Julie M. Rivett, collects the two Dashiell Hammett screen stories that became the films After the Thin Man (1936) and Another Thin Man (1939).
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