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You Can Go Home Again: PW Talks with Laura Lippman
Laura Lippman, best known for her Tess Monaghan PI series, sets her new stand-alone, The Most Dangerous Thing, in Dickeyville, the Baltimore neighborhood where she grew up.
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First Fiction 2011: Erin Morgenstern: High-Wire Act
It's no accident that Erin Morgenstern's first novel, The Night Circus (Doubleday), is set under the big top. Says the 32-year-old author, "The circus itself is my personal ideal entertainment venue."
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Seeing the Gorilla in the Room: PW Talks with Cathy N. Davidson
In Now You See It: How the Brain Science of Attention Will Transform the Way We Live, Work, and Learn, Cathy Davidson shows us what's in front of our noses.
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For Love or Money: PW Talks with Mary Gabriel
Gabriel delves into the tumultuous private life of Karl Marx in Love and Capital.
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Get Real: PW Talks with Steven Millhauser
For his new book, We Others: New and Selected Stories, Millhauser selects from three decades of work, revealing that some obsessions never go away.
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Aging the 21st-Century Way: PW Talks with Nortin Hadler
In Rethinking Aging, author Nortin Hadler, M.D., says we have to revise, individually and as a society, how we navigate the difficult waters of old age.
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The Tent-Preaching Circuit: PW Talks with Donna Johnson
In Holy Ghost Girl, Donna Johnson grows up under the influence of an evangelical preacher.
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The Zelig of Crime: PW Talks with Max Allan Collins
Nathan Heller, the fictional detective involved in almost every criminal cause célèbre of the 20th century, investigates the untimely death of Marilyn Monroe in Max Allan Collins's Bye, Bye Baby.
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Q & A with Patrick Ness and Denise Johnstone-Burt
In 2010 Walker Books announced the forthcoming publication of a new book; Patrick Ness, author of the Chaos Walking trilogy, was to complete a novel that had begun as a fragment and an idea written by Siobhan Dowd, who died of breast cancer before the novel was finished.
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Worrying Myself to Death: PW Talks with Bob Mould
No conversation about the ‘80s underground rock scene is complete without Hüsker Dü. And no discussion about Hüsker Dü is complete without Bob Mould, who helped to lift the band to iconic status. But in Mould’s new autobiography, See A Little Light, the band is merely a leaping-off point to a surprising, engaging life full of fury and transformation.
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Spring 2011 Flying Starts: John Corey Whaley
In late 2005, on his drive home from Louisiana Tech University, John Corey Whaley heard a story on NPR about singer songwriter Sufjan Stevens. Stevens traveled to a small town where an ivory-billed woodpecker, previously thought extinct, possibly appeared and thousands of people flocked in to see it. Like his main character, Cullen Witter, in his YA novel Where Things Come Back (Atheneum), Whaley had a history of coming up with possible titles that he developed to varying degrees. "And in that 20 minutes, just like that," he says, "after coming up with book ideas that never really went anywhere since I was 12 years old, suddenly I knew this was the plot of a novel that I could finish."
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Spring 2011 Flying Starts: Cathleen Daly
Cathleen Daly has been writing since she was a kid. "In fourth grade, I used to get blank journals," she says. "One of my best friends and I used to write books together in the library. I write poetry, too. It's become a career only more recently."
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Spring 2011 Flying Starts: Veronica Roth
On a long drive from her home near Chicago to Carleton College in Minnesota—which she attended as a freshman before transferring to Northwestern—Veronica Roth saw on a billboard an image of a person leaping off a building.
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Spring 2011 Flying Starts: Jenny Hubbard
Novelist, playwright, stage actor: when it comes to arts and letters, Jenny Hubbard is something of a triple threat. And that doesn't even take into account her 17 years as an English teacher, both at the college level and at an all-boys boarding school, one similar to the fictional Birch School of her first novel, Paper Covers Rock (Delacorte), which has received starred reviews from Publishers Weekly, School Library Journal, and Horn Book. The young adult novel went on sale just last week—one day before a play Hubbard wrote, Pinocchio's Sister, debuted on stage in her hometown of Salisbury, N.C. And later this summer, Hubbard will herself appear on stage in a production of August: Osage County in Charlotte, N.C.
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Spring 2011 Flying Starts: Matthew Myers
All Matthew Myers had to do to get the attention of Writers House agent Steven Malk was send him a link to his Web site. ("Paintings so good you'd swear he's dead," the splash page says.) In another sense, though, he'd been preparing for the introduction for years.
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Spring 2011 Flying Starts: Thanhha Lai
When Thanhha (pronounced TANG-Ha) Lai decided to fictionalize the story of her own early life in Vietnam and immigration to Alabama after the war, she wrote her novel Inside Out & Back Again (HarperCollins) in six months. "It was shockingly easy to write," she recalls. "Because it is my story and I'd already been processing it for years and years."
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The Spy Behind the Curtain: PW Talks with Matthew Dunn
Matthew Dunn's debut, Spycatcher, introduces tough, resourceful MI6 agent Will Cochrane.
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Q & A with Jessica Morgan and Heather Cocks
Jessica Morgan and Heather Cocks, authors of the fun and funny fashion blog Go Fug Yourself, are newly minted YA authors with their just-published first novel, Spoiled.
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'American Psycho' at 20: Catching Up with Bret Easton Ellis
Despite a rapidly changing cultural landscape, American Psycho continues to be relevant—it was published by Vintage in e-book format last June and is currently being developed into a Broadway play.
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