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A Parent's Worst Nightmare: PW Talks with Antoinette van Heugten
Antoinette van Heugten, a former international trial lawyer, makes her debut with Saving Max, a thriller about a single mother who places her autistic teenage son in a psychiatric hospital.
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Q & A with Kirsten Miller
Kirsten Miller is best known as the author of the Kiki Strike novels, a series following a group of six girls adventuring in New York City. Her latest book, The Eternal Ones, follows the adventures of Haven, a girl from a small southern town who discovers that she might have lived a past life, and that her lover from her last life might be living in New York.
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Why I Write: Stephanie Pearl McPhee
The first time I wrote this essay, trying to explain why I write, I wrote what I've heard other authors say. Essentially (but really well) I repeated the grand idea that writers write because they must—the fire for the literary art burns so brightly in us that without writing as a form of expression, we would scarcely have a reason to go on. Now, after I typed that, I realized that I'm either more shallow or more complex, because I think I have another reason.
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Sister Act: PW Talks with Ntozake Shange and Ifa Bayeza
Sisters Shange (For Colored Girls Who Have Considered Suicide/When the Rainbow Is Enuf) and Bayeza (The Ballad of Emmett Till) collaborated on Some Sing, Some Cry, a lush chronicle spanning 200 years of the Mayfield family.
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Identity Repair Poet: PW Talks with Thomas Sayers Ellis
In his second collection, Skin, Inc.: Identity Repair Poems, Ellis takes a complex, searing look at the state of black identity in America.
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A Normal Irish Cop: PW Talks with Brian McGilloway
The opening of a gold mine propels Brian McGilloway's third Inspector Devlin mystery, Bleed a River Deep.
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Q & A with Marla Frazee
A briefcase-toting baby wearing a onesie styled like a business suit is clearly in charge of the household in The Boss Baby. Written and illustrated by Marla Frazee, two-time Caldecott Honoree, The Boss Baby is simple in concept—a new baby takes over a household—but Frazee talks about some of the challenges she met while creating it.
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Into the Wild: PW Talks with John Vaillant
Man and tiger face off in Siberia's boreal forests as an Amur tiger turns man-eater and begins methodically selecting and stalking victims in The Tiger.
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Held Captive: PW Talks with Emma Donoghue
Jack, the five-year-old narrator of Emma Donoghue's Room knows only the world inside the 120-square-foot soundproof cell he and his mother have been imprisoned in for years.
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Why I Write: Laird Barron
My paternal grandfather was a failed novelist. He stacked boxes of rejected manuscripts in a closet. I didn't realize this until much later in life, after I'd written half a million words of my own; didn't appreciate this fact until after he died in 1993, alone on a gold claim in the Yukon wilderness.
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Q & A with Grace Lin
Over the years, author-illustrator Grace Lin has mined her own childhood for funny, upbeat stories that shed light on the unique experience of growing up Asian-American.
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No Accidental Storyteller: PW Talks to Laurie Hertzel
The Minneapolis Star Tribune books editor dishes about life on and off the page in News to Me: Adventures of an Accidental Journalist
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True Friends: PW Talks with Gail Caldwell
In Let's Take the Long Way Home: A Memoir of Friendship, Gail Caldwell remembers the late writer Caroline Knapp, author of Drinking: A Love Story.
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Spring 2010 Flying Starts
Spotlighting four novelists and one illustrator who had their debuts this spring
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Why I Write: Siobhan Fallon
An army base is a strange place. An army base in a time of war , especially after 4,000 men pack up their duffel bags, put on their uniforms, and leave their wives and children for an entire year. In You Know When the Men Are Gone, I attempt to show that world and the moments that lead up to the separation, the long and difficult absence, the return.
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Unveiling Islam Today: PW Talks with Zoe Ferraris
In City of Veils, Zoë Ferraris, who lived in Jeddah as the American wife of a Palestinian Bedouin, explores the interpersonal problems of men and women in Saudi Arabia’s traditional culture.
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Q & A with Patricia MacLachlan
Patricia MacLachlan is the Newbery Award winning author of Sarah, Plain and Tall and more than 20 other acclaimed books. She spoke with Bookshelf about her new novel, Word After Word After Word, which is based on her own experience speaking in schools.
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The Best of All Possible Worlds: PW Talks with J.C. Hallman
Hallman investigates modern day utopians in their natural habitats—communes, $30 billion megacities, bed and breakfasts in Italy, ships perpetually circling the world—in In Utopia (Reviews, Apr. 26).
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Learning to Ease the Pain: PW Talks with Melanie Thernstrom
Melanie Thernstrom feels your pain as well as her own, as she explores treatments and the search for a "cure" in The Pain Chronicles (Reviews, May 17).
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Making Sense of Random Chaos: PW Talks with Kirsten Tranter
Australian Kirsten Tranter debuts with The Legacy, in which Ingrid Grey, an idealistic young woman modeled on Henry James's Isobel Archer, is among the missing when the World Trade Towers fall on September 11.
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