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Q & A with Maile Meloy
Los Angeles-based author Maile Meloy has received plentiful critical kudos for her work as a writer of short stories and novels for adults; now she has written her first novel for a younger audience. Bookshelf caught up with Meloy upon her return to L.A. from a New York City dinner event with booksellers.
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Interview with Alice Waters
I spoke with Alice Waters from her home in north Berkeley, as she was in the middle of preparing an anniversary event, the subject of her forthcoming book from Clarkson Potter Forty Years of Chez Panisse: The Power of Gathering.
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The Boston Miracle: PW Talks with David M. Kennedy
Kennedy shares his radically successful program—“Operation Ceasefire” or “the Boston Miracle”—for bringing communities, criminals, and policeman together to curb street violence in Don’t Shoot.
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Murder by the Bay: PW Talks with Kirk Russell
Kirk Russell, author of four novels about California Department of Fish and Game warden John Marquez, introduces San Francisco homicide inspector Ben Raveneau in A Killing in China Basin.
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Apocalyptically Ever After: PW Talks with Maureen McHugh
The nine short stories in Hugo-winner McHugh’s new collection, After the Apocalypse, emphasize the human ability to survive and even thrive in the face of global disaster.
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Why I Write: Sam Talbot
I'm a jumping-bean kind of guy. I get up early, and I stay up late, and in between, I'm on the move—surfing, yoga, walking the dog, painting big, colorful, slightly mad canvases, going from one place to another. I just can't stop being in action in some way.
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After Singularity, Chop Wood, Carry Water: PW Talks with Vernor Vinge
In The Children of the Sky, sequel to the Hugo-winning 1992 novel A Fire Upon the Deep, Vinge shows that even advanced far-future humans struggle with social and technical difficulties.
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Q & A with Brian Selznick
Brian Selznick follows his 2008 Caldecott Medal-winning novel, The Invention of Hugo Cabret, with Wonderstruck, which clocks in at 640 pages, 100 pages longer than Hugo, and looks like it's going to be just as big a hit.
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Looking Back: PW Talks with Mark Whitaker
In My Long Trip Home, CNN executive v-p Mark Whitaker explores his biracial heritage and his family demons.
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Some Words from the (War) Wise: PW Talks with Karl Marlantes
Karl Marlantes, author of the acclaimed novel Matterhorn, says young warriors need more than basic training to prepare for combat in What It Is Like to Go to War.
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Writing What He Knows: PW Talks with Daniel Woodrell
Daniel Woodrell, best-known for his novel, Winter's Bone, returns to the Missouri Ozarks in his first collection of short fiction, The Outlaw Album.
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Q & A with Lane Smith
Lane Smith's latest book, Grandpa Green, is about as far away in tone from his last, It's a Book, as is possible. He spoke with Bookshelf about memory and mortality from his home in Connecticut.
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Bullfighting Can Be Murder: PW Talks with Jason Webster
Jason Webster, who's lived in Spain since 1993, introduces Chief Insp. Max Cámara in Or the Bull Kills You.
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The Whistleblower: PW Talks with Peter Van Buren
State department insider Van Buren exposes the bungled occupation and reconstruction of Iraq in We Meant Well.
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My Horrible '70s Apocalypse: PW Talks with Colson Whitehead
Colson Whitehead takes on the end of the world (with zombies!) in Zone One.
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A Girl's Guide to Music: PW Talks with Courtney E. Smith
In Record Collecting for Girls, Courtney E. Smith writes about love and coming-of-age through music.
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Chaos and Crime: PW Talks with Leonard Rosen
Leonard Rosen's debut, All Cry Chaos, introduces Interpol agent Henri Poincaré.
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The Doors of Perception: PW Talks with Errol Morris
The celebrated director of such films as The Thin Blue Line and the Oscar-winning The Fog of War investigates some of photography's most iconic, enduring, and mysterious images in Believing Is Seeing from Penguin Press.
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Strunk and White Is So, Like, Over: PW Talks with John McWhorter
In What Language Is, linguist John McWhorter investigates the tongue-twisting complexities of language.
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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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