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PW Talks with Mikhail Shishkin
One of the most prominent names in modern Russian literature, Mikhail Shishkin, will have his novel Maidenhair, translated by Marian Schwartz, published by Open Letter Books at the University of Rochester in October.
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No One Had a Story Like Hers: A Q&A with Robin Gaby Fisher
Robin Gaby Fisher tells the tale of Tania Head who for four years was a fierce advocate for survivors of 9/11—until it was revealed that her own story of survival was a complete fabrication.
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Rich, Richer, and Poor: PW Talks with Timothy Noah
In The Great Divergence: America’s Growing Inequality Crisis and What We Can Do About It, Timothy Noah expands on his award-winning Slate series to explain why the wealthy command so much of the pie.
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Cookbook Obsession: PW Talks with Daniel Duane
Most of us own cookbooks we may use only occasionally; not so for Daniel Duane, who reflects on his food-soaked and recipe-drenched mania in How to Cook Like a Man: A Memoir of Cookbook Obsession.
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Murder in the Midwest: PW Talks with Brian Freeman
Two fictional Minnesota towns, one rich, one poor, clash in Brian Freeman’s novel of psychological suspense,
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Passion Play: PW Talks with Robert Goolrick
In Robert Goolrick’s second novel, Heading Out to Wonderful, WWII vet Charlie Beale arrives in rural Virginia hoping for a bright future, but gets mixed up with Sylvan, a dreamer married to a wealthy and dangerous man.
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I Know There Is a Lot Going On: A Q&A with Zack Parsons
Liminal States is a time-spanning, genre-leaping, “awe-inspiring” novel that coheres in spite of its moving parts—which also include a prequel serial, alt-reality web sites, art, music, and more.
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Sax and Violence: PW Talks with Steve Ulfelder
Steve Ulfelder’s mechanic sleuth, Conway Sax, makes his sophomore appearance in The Whole Lie.
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A Great Big Classic Gushy Love Story: PW Talks with Beatriz Williams
Take a bookish, undersexed Wall Street analyst and a hedge-fund tycoon with a secret, time-hopping past, and you have the killer hook for Beatriz Williams’s literary romance, Overseas.
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What Videogames Can Be: A Q&A with Anna Anthropy
Anna Anthropy has made a big stir in the world of small videogames,. In Rise of the Videogame Zinesters, she examines the auteur-driven, boundary-bending videogame revolution she helps lead.
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Sexuality, Independence, Economic Empowerment: A Q&A with Liza Mundy
In her latest, journalist Liza Mundy (Michelle: A Biography) looks at the emerging generation of women heads-of-household who make more than—or otherwise do without—the man of the house.
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Death Comes from the Archbishop's Son: PW Talks with James Runcie
James Runcie, whose father was the archbishop of Canterbury, introduces a clerical sleuth in Sidney Chambers and the Shadow of Death.
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Tock Tick
The author of Tokyo Suckerpunch returns with Complication, a literary thriller about a man traveling to Prague to put his brother’s mysterious death to rest.
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Whatever the Emergency Is: A Q&A with Lisa Bedford
Lisa Bedford is an average mom who, over the past four years, has become an expert survivalist. In The Survival Mom, she documents strategies for every conceivable emergency and disaster.
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Getting the Government Out of Our Bedrooms: A Q&A with Dale Carpenter
In Flagrant Conduct: The Story of Lawrence v. Texas, law professor Dale Carptenter examines the landmark 2002 case resulting from the arrest of two gay men in their home by sheriff’s deputies.
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Paranoid, Eerie, Hippie-Dippie and Drugged-Out: A History of San Francisco
Journalist David Talbot didn't just write about the 15 years of SF history that saw the rise and fall of Haight-Ashbury, Harvey Milk, Janis Joplin, Jim Jones, Charles Manson, and others—he was there.
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His Brother's Keeper: PW Talks with Wiley Cash
Wiley Cash’s debut novel, A Land More Kind than Home, is a dark and haunting mystery about the death of a disabled boy during a Pentecostal service in a small North Carolina town.
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The Future Is Fun: PW Talks with Kim Stanley Robinson
In 2312, Kim Stanley Robinson envisions the solar system 300 years hence as a playground for genetically altered superhumans and semisentient quantum computers who turn planets into works of art.
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Spies with Families: PW Talks with Mark Harril Saunders
Mark Harril Saunders’s debut, Ministers of Fire, follows veteran U.S. official and intelligence agent Lucius Burling through Afghanistan and China as he struggles to make sense of the post-9/11 world.
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Completely On Their Own: A Q&A with Jessie Klein
In The Bully Society, professor Jessie Klein takes a hard look at bullying: its root causes and the full range of consequences—school shootings being the most extreme example.
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