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Empress of All the Russias: PW Talks with Robert K. Massie
At 82, Robert Massie, biographer of Peter the Great, chronicles a remarkable successor, Catherine the Great.
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Q & A with Carmen Agra Deedy and Randall Wright
A talk with Carmen Agra Deedy and Randall Wright, co-authors of The Cheshire Cheese Cat: A Dickens of a Tale, set in an actual, centuries-old London inn.
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Heart's Desire: PW Talks with Jennifer Arnold
Jennifer Arnold, author of last year’s bestselling Through a Dog’s Eyes (Spiegel & Grau), returns to investigating the inner workings of man’s best friend with In a Dog’s Heart. Howard is the founder of Canine Assistants, which trains service dogs, and also the creator of Choice Teaching, a method for training dogs through gentle incentive.
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On Wood-working: PW Talks with Tommy MacDonald
Tommy MacDonald is passionate about woodworking, and his enthusiasm for his hobby is contagious. His new book, Rough Cut: Woodworking With Tommy Mac is based on the first season of his successful PBS show of the same name.
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Life Among the Gods: PW Talks with N.K. Jemisin
Jemisin wraps up her lauded Inheritance Trilogy with The Kingdom of Gods, in which a lonely child-god attempts to befriend scheming mortals with disastrous consequences.
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The Copenhagen Connection: PW Talks with Lene Kaaberbol and Agnete Friis
Danes Lene Kaaberbøl, a YA fantasy writer, and Agnete Friis, a children’s author and journalist, have, for their first collaborative effort, produced a crime novel, The Boy in the Suitcase, about illegal immigration in Europe. They answer collectively.
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Shaking Up the Canon: PW Talks with Rita Dove
In the Penguin Anthology of 20th Century American Poetry, former Poet Laureate Rita Dove offers a fresh take on the most important poetry of the previous hundred years.
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Down and Dirty in New Jersey: PW Talks with Joyce Carol Oates
Joyce Carol Oates draws on her Princeton connections—including Sheila Kohler, Paul Muldoon, Edmund White, and her former student, Jonathan Safran Foer—for contributors to her crime anthology in the Akashic series, New Jersey Noir.
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Love, Gin, and Pirates: PW Talks with Elizabeth Hoyt
Scandalous Desires, Elizabeth Hoyt’s third Maiden Lane romance, pairs pirate Mickey O’Connor with conservative widow Silence Hollingbrook in the slums of Victorian London.
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American Grotesques: PW Talks with John Jeremiah Sullivan
In the essays in Pulphead, John Jeremiah Sullivan, Paris Review Southern Editor, encounters some of the nation’s weirdest cultural phenomena.
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Leaving Ceylon: PW Talks with Michael Ondaatje
As British colonialism dies, a young author comes of age in The Cat’s Table.
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Reacher on the Move: PW Talks with Lee Child
Lee Child’s 16th novel featuring former military cop Jack Reacher, The Affair, takes Reacher back to 1997, when he left the Army and embarked on his traveling ways.
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The Monday Interview with Patricia Bosworth
An interview with Patricia Bosworth, whose Jane Fonda: The Private Life of a Public Woman, will be published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt.
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Immigrant Song: PW Talks with Ismet Prcic
Ismet Prcic talks truth in fiction, immigrant literature, and what he learned from Aleksandar Hemon, in his debut novel, Shards.
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Good Dog: PW Talks with Susan Orlean
Orlean, author of the bestselling The Orchid Thief, delves into the life of one of Hollywood’s most iconic stars, the German shepherd Rin Tin Tin, in her biography of the beloved dog and his handlers in Rin Tin Tin.
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The Cost of Violence: PW Talks with Stuart Neville
Stuart Neville’s third crime thriller featuring Belfast Det. Insp. Jack Lennon, Stolen Souls, focuses on human trafficking.
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Deranging Language: PW Talks with Laurie Weeks
In Weeks’s manic, charming debut, Zipper Mouth, set in a mid-’90s dope-sodden party scene, a young woman enacts a passionate flirtation with an unattainable female performance artist.
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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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