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Rivers of Sewage and Radiation: PW Talks with Andrew Blackwell
With Visit Sunny Chernobyl, journalist-filmmaker Andrew Blackwell tours the most polluted spots on earth -- and makes a pretty good case that you should, too.
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Oliver Jeffers: A U.S./U.K. Production
Author-illustrator Oliver Jeffers, a Belfast native who has lived in Brooklyn since 2007, is enjoying his greatest U.S. success to date with Stuck, his eighth and most recent picture book. His latest book is The New Sweater. Like other Jeffers titles, it is being released simultaneously with HarperCollins in the U.K. and with Penguin/Philomel in the U.S., thanks to an unusual publishing backstory.
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A Conversation With Carlos Fuentes
Carlos Fuentes said that politics tends to be ideological, religion tends to be dogmatic, but literature is always ambiguous. PW recently talked to the author, who unexpectedly died recently, about his work and his new novel, Vlad (Dalkey Archive Press).
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PW Talks with Michael Showalter: Focus on Audio 2012
Comedian, actor, director, and writer Michael Showalter is probably best known for the 2001 film Wet Hot American Summer; the comedy troupe, Stella; and the MTV show The State. But he’s also written a memoir and recorded its audiobook, and will host the Audies Gala.
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From Urban Planning to Urban Fantasy: PW Talks with Kira Brady
Kira Brady’s studies in urban planning and historic preservation helped her create a fantastical alternate Seattle in Hearts of Darkness, the first in a paranormal romance trilogy.
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Gurney into Mystery: PW Talks with John Verdon
Retired NYPD detective Dave Gurney pursues a serial killer in John Verdon’s Let the Devil Sleep.
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Shape-Shifter: PW Talks with Rachel Joyce
After 20 years of acting with the Royal Shakespeare Company and writing radio plays for the BBC, Rachel Joyce begins her career as a novelist with The Unlikely Pilgrimage of Harold Fry.
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Same Sex, Different Story: PW Talks with Rodger Streitmatter
Just as president Obama comes out in favor of gay marriage, a new book takes a close look at American same sex couples, from Walt Whitman to Greta Garbo to Jasper Johns.
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PW Talks With Garth Nix
In his rollicking new novel, the space opera A Confusion of Princes, Australian writer Garth Nix, author of the classic Abhorsen Chronicles and the recent Keys to the Kingdom series, introduces a galaxy-spanning empire ostensibly run by the 10 million princes of the title, all working under the rule of a mysterious emperor but, as the protagonist gradually discovers, things are not at all what they seem.
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Sh*t My Dad Says About Love: PW Talks with Justin Halpern
Justin Halpern had been struggling for years as a writer in Hollywood when a break-up and a dwindling bank account forced him to move back in with his parents. His father's hilariously profane bon mots inspired him to start a Twitter account dedicated to Halpern Sr.'s one-liners and sarcastic observations.
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How Quickly Things Can Change: 'PW' Talks with Bill Bradley
The newest government prescription from the former senator, We Can All Do Better, includes a return to “horse-trading for a noble purpose” and the creation of a strong, locally-based third parties.
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Rough Magic: PW Talks with James Treadwell
James Treadwell’s Advent mixes fantasy and religion, and adult and YA themes, in the story of a teen boy in the present day who encounters mysterious artifacts created by legendary magus Johannes Faust.
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The Hunger: PW Talks with Marc Fitten
A Hungarian divorcée restaurateur, bored with her sous chef lover and classic cooking, lights some new fires in Marc Fitten’s second novel, Elza’s Kitchen.
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Exploded Memories: PW Talks with Brian Castner
After heading an explosive ordnance disposal team during two tours in Iraq. Brian Castner was unprepared for civilian life, as he relates in The Long Walk.
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Life and Death Connections: PW Talks with Bernd Heinrich
In Life Everlasting: The Animal Way of Death, physiological ecologist Bernd Heinrich encourages us to see death as a starting point for life, with dead matter feeding organisms throughout the ecosystem.
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Doing Good Work, Diligently: PW Talks with Alastair Reynolds
In Alastair Reynolds’s Blue Remembered Earth, the first in the near-future Poseidon’s Children series, an East African biologist’s dying grandmother leaves clues to a mystery that takes him to the Moon and beyond.
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The Beginning of the Holocaust: PW Talks with Richard Zimler
In Richard Zimler’s The Seventh Gate, a Christian teenager, Sophie Riedesel, fights for justice
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L.A. Woman: PW Talks with Dana Johnson
In her debut novel, Elsewhere, California, Dana Johnson returns to Avery, who first appeared in her Flanner O’Connor Award-winning short story collection, Break Any Woman Down.
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Q & A with Paolo Bacigalupi
Paolo Bacigalupi's first novel for young adults, Ship Breaker, won the Printz Award and placed him firmly on the radar of the YA world. He returns to the post-cataclysmic realm of Ship Breaker with The Drowned Cities. The author spoke with PW about the differences between writing for adults and for teens, and the distinction he draws between dystopias and science fiction.
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An Improbable Business: PW Talks with Padgett Powell
In You & Me, two old men argue on a front porch “somewhere between Bakersfield, California, and Jacksonville, Florida.” But the real setting is Padgett Powell’s head.
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