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Q&A: Deborah Davis, Keeper of Oprah's Flame
Abrams celebrates the legacy of America’s most beloved talk-show host with this week’s release of The Oprah Winfrey Show: Reflections on an American Legacy. Nonfiction author Deborah Davis, whose friends describe her beat as “the rich and the dead,” was tapped to write Abrams's 25-year retrospective. The Tip Sheet spoke to her over the phone this week about condensing 25 years of television history into a six-month whirlwind of viewing, researching, and writing.
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On a Mission: PW Talks with Corban Addison
For his debut novel, A Walk Across the Sun, attorney Corban Addison went undercover in brothels to illuminate the plight of the international sex slave trade.
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Beautiful Girls: PW Talks with Sonia Faleiro
Journalist Faleiro delves into Bombay’s underworld to reveal the secretive world of bar dancers in Beautiful Thing.
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A Laotian Quincy: PW Talks with Colin Cotterill
Colin Cotterill’s eighth mystery starring Dr. Siri Paiboun, Slash and Burn, is billed as the last starring the acerbic Laotian national coroner.
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Apocalipsis Mexicano Fantastico: PW Talks with Eduardo Jimenez Mayo and Chris N. Brown
Three Messages and a Warning presents a diverse collection of stories of the strange and fantastical by new and established Mexican writers, edited by critic and translator Eduardo Jiménez Mayo and author and critic Chris N. Brown.
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Q & A with Barry Denenberg
As he did in Lincoln Shot!, Barry Denenberg meshes fact and fiction to tell the story of the building of the Titanic and its doomed maiden voyage, in Titanic Sinks! (Viking).
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On the Rez: PW Talks with David Treuer
Treuer, a young Native American novelist (The Translation of Dr. Apelles; The Hiawatha) offers an informed insider’s view of Ojibwe tribal history and family culture in Rez Life
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Postapocalyptic Irreverence: PW Talks with Ryan Boudinot
Boudinot takes readers on a frenzied trip through a hypernetworked future after an apocalypse in Blueprints of the Afterlife.
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A Conversation with Sam McBratney
To celebrate the reissue of his now-classic book, Guess How Much I Love You in a pop-up edition (with illustrations by the original artist, Anita Jeram), Irish author Sam McBratney visited the U.S. for the first time in a decade and did a whirlwind tour last month.
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Past Meets Present: PW Talks with Kit Bakke
In Dot to Dot, Kit Bakke’s self-published first book for children, 12-year-old Dot comes to terms with her mother’s recent death with some across-the-centuries help from Mary Wollstonecraft, Jane Austen, and Dorothy Wordsworth.
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Muslim Women's Rights: Two Views: PW Talks with Deborah Scroggins
In Wanted Women, Deborah Scroggins explores conflict in the Islamic world through the experiences of two fascinating and very different women .
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Writing Redemption: PW Talks with Naomi Benaron
Naomi Benaron talks about the resilience of the human spirit in her debut novel about the genocide in Rwanda, Running the Rift.
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A Sympathetic Torturer: PW Talks with Mark Allen Smith
Mark Allen Smith’s thriller debut, The Inquisitor, introduces a lead character, Geiger, who’s paid to extract information using torture.
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Lighting Fires: PW Talks with Greil Marcus
In The Doors, music critic Greil Marcus takes a serious look at the controversial 1960s band through its music.
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Going Public: PW Talks with Jeff Jarvis
Jeff Jarvis is not a man to mince words. And to the critics and curmudgeons resisting the new networked world at our doorstep, the message in his latest book, Public Parts: How Sharing in the Digital Age Improves the Way We Work and Live, is clear: get with it.
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Q & A with Maggie Stiefvater
Maggie Stiefvater, who has her second big release of the year with The Scorpio Races, which hits bookstore shelves later this month, spoke with Bookshelf in a brief window between traveling on book tours and finishing her next manuscript.
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The Monday Interview with Donald Trump and Robert Kiyosaki
An interview with Donald Trump and Robert Kiyosaki, whose Midas Touch is out from Plata Publishing
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Into the Woods: PW Talks with Arundhati Roy
In Walking with the Comrades, novelist and activist Arundhati Roy (The God of Small Things) travels into the forest with India’s Maoist indigenous communities at war with the government.
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My Friend the Book: PW Talks with Bill Cosby
Bill Cosby’s I Didn’t Ask to Be Born (but I’m Glad I Was) includes the beloved entertainer’s thoughts about his childhood friends, his family, and... erectile dysfunction.
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Death on the Ancient Nile: PW Talks with Nick Drake
Egypt: The Book of Chaos completes Nick Drake’s mystery trilogy set during the 18th dynasty.
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