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Character in Letters: PW Talks with Carlene Bauer
Carlene Bauer, whose memoir, Not That Kind of Girl, is about faith and its loss, talks about her debut novel, Frances and Bernard, and how she made fiction out of the lives of writers Flannery O’Connor and Robert Lowell.
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While America Slept: PW Talks with Andrew Rosenheim
An FBI agent goes undercover inside the German-American Bund in Andrew Rosenheim’s Fear Itself, the first in a new historical series.
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Q & A with Ian Falconer
Ian Falconer’s headstrong Olivia may be a piglet, but she is decidedly not pink. Falconer’s new picture book, Olivia and the Fairy Princesses, reveals Olivia's girlhood bête noire (or bête rose, as the case may be). Readers of Olivia Saves the Circus and Olivia and the Missing Toy, and admirers of Falconer's satiric images for the New Yorker and other publications, will detect the sharp wit underlying Olivia’s fairy princess troubles.
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PW Video Series: Debbie Macomber on Her New Novel, 'The Inn at Rose Harbor'
No. 1 bestselling author Debbie Macomber talks to PW about the importance of listening to readers, and why her latest novel, The Inn at Rose Harbor, almost didn't happen.
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Taking on a Giant: PW Talks with Jaime Manrique
In his new novel, Cervantes Street, Jaime Manrique reimagines the life of author Miguel de Cervantes, who lost use of his arm in a duel, fought in the Spanish Navy, and was kidnapped and sold into slavery all before he wrote his masterpiece—Don Quixote.
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Real-Life Drama: PW Talks with Tarun J. Tejpal
In his second novel, The Story of My Assassins, Tarun J. Tejpal takes an unsparing view of India and its teeming underclass.
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Christmas Magic: PW Talks with Victoria Alexander
In Victoria Alexander’s second Christmas-themed historical romance, What Happens at Christmas, twin sisters Camille and Beryl hire actors to play their relatives and create a picture-perfect family Christmas that might entice a foreign prince to propose to Camille.
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Sometimes a Murder Is Just a Murder: PW Talks with Frank Tallis
In Death and the Maiden, psychologist Frank Tallis explores Sigmund Freud’s Vienna.
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Episcopal Bishop Champions Gay Marriage: PW Talks with Gene Robinson
Gene Robinson, Episcopal bishop of New Hampshire, catapulted from obscurity to the center of the culture wars in 2003 when he became the first openly gay bishop in the 77-million-member Anglican Communion. Hundreds of parishes left the Episcopal Church in protest. Now set to retire in January 2013, Robinson has a new book from Knopf, God Believes in Love: Straight Talk about Gay Marriage.
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Little Girls Lost: PW Talks with Michael Robotham
Michael Robotham’s damaged protagonist, psychologist Joe O’Loughlin, hunts for two kidnapped teenage girls in Say You’re Sorry.
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Lucille Clifton's Legacy: PW Talks with Kevin Young and Michael Glaser
Poets Kevin Young and Michael Glaser co-edited the 800 page Collected Poems of Lucille Clifton (1936-2010). They talked to PW about knowing the poet and the labor of love that the book represents.
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The Costumed Voice: PW Talks with Elena Passarello
In her debut essay collection Let Me Clear My Throat, actor and writer Elena Passarello considers the human voice.
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Faster Pussycat: PW Talks with Bronwen Hruska
With her debut novel, Accelerated, Soho Press publisher Bronwen Hruska dives into Manhattan’s prep school quagmire.
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Q & A with Sarah Stewart and David Small
The Quiet Place is the sixth picture book by husband-and-wife collaborators Sarah Stewart and David Small, whose 1997 The Gardener was a Caldecott Honor book. From their Michigan home, Stewart and Small talked to Bookshelf about their latest book and their many years of collaboration.
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Struggles with Temptation: PW Talks with Jacqueline Carey
Epic fantasist Carey launches a contemporary series with Dark Currents, in which half-demon Daisy Johanssen must resist her yearning for the “Seven Deadlies” while investigating a suspicious death in a small Michigan town where humans and supernatural entities live side by side.
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Cozy Fan Tudor: PW Talks with G.M. Malliet
G.M. Malliet channels Agatha Christie in her second mystery featuring Anglican priest Max Tudor, A Fatal Winter.
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Culture Clash: PW Talks with Tatjana Soli
The Forgetting Tree, Tatjana Soli’s new novel about the unlikely bond between two women living in an orange grove, is a vast departure from the award-winning The Lotus Eaters, but she still explores her central theme—what happens when cultures collide.
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Common Knowledge: PW Talks with Aman Sethi
In his first book, A Free Man: A True Story of Life and Death in Delhi, award-winning journalist Aman Sethi delves into the lives of homeless laborers in Bara Tooti Chowk, a labor market in Old Delhi.
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Q & A with Laura Amy Schlitz
Splendors and Glooms, the latest novel from Newbery Medalist Laura Amy Schlitz, is a gothic thriller about three children at the mercy of an unscrupulous puppeteer, who is himself under the spell of a malicious witch. It's actually two separate stories that overlap at one key point, and its complexity gave the Baltimore school librarian fits as she wrestled it into shape. But it allowed her to marry two of her passions in a single work – Dickens and marionettes.
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Getting Her Writing Legs: PW Talks with Chloe Caldwell
In her first essay collection, Legs Get Led Astray, Chloe Caldwell brings together tales of love affairs, obsessions, babysitting, and Brooklyn to create a disarming portrait of a young woman’s life.
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