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PW Talks with Cathleen Schine
Cathleen Schine's The Three Weissmans of Westport is a little bit 21st-century homage to Sense and Sensibility and a little bit homecoming to her childhood town of Westport, Conn.
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PW Talks with John D'Agata
"Is the boy who kills himself a metaphor for what's going on at Yucca, or is Yucca a commentary on this boy's suicide? I like not being entirely clear where the emphasis lies."
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PW Talks with Dana Stabenow
The discovery of gold and other precious metals on land within a state park leads to murder in A Night Too Dark, Dana Stabenow's 17th mystery featuring Alaska PI Kate Shugak.
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PW Talks with Eric Puchner
A Pushcart Prize winner and former Wallace Stegner Fellow, Eric Puchner follows his lauded story collection with his first novel, Model Home, which portrays the financial ruin and personal crises of the Ziller family in devastating detail against a backdrop of California in the early 1980s.
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Q & A with Hilary McKay
Q: Do you have strong childhood memories of reading A Little Princess?
A: Oh, yes. As a child, I read the novel so many times. In fact I read it and reread it until my copy almost fell to pieces. My sister and I knew the novel so well that we could actually recite it. It became almost like theater to us. -
Monday Interview: Sarah Schulman
An interview with Sarah Schulman, whose Ties That Bind: Familial Homophobia and Its Consequences, was just published by the New Press.
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Cooking the Books with Julie Powell
Julie & Julia author Julie Powell is back—but don’t think her new book, Cleaving, picks up where the Amy Adams movie left off. Cleaving tells of the troubles in Powell’s marriage, and how she found solace by working as a butcher, of all things. As Powell explains, readers who come to Cleaving from the Nora Ephron romantic comedy are going to experience “some psychic whiplash.”
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Why I Write: Rory Freedman
So many people romanticize writing. And I get it. But I never once wanted to be a writer. I write because I have to. Because it's literally a matter of life or death.
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PW Talks with Roger Rosenblatt
In Making Toast, Time magazine essayist Roger Rosenblatt recalls his family's struggle to heal itself after losing the woman at its center: "When you reach a certain age—we're in our 60s—life becomes awfully self-indulgent. Now, helping with the grandchildren, we have made our lives useful, and that matters."
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PW Talks with Robert Crais
"I put myself into the characters' head space and live with them for an extended period. I just had so much fun being with [supporting character] Joe Pike in The Watchman that I wanted to do it again."
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PW Talks with P.D. James
"Crime fiction is a very wide spectrum of writing. You have crime at the heart of the book, but you may know who did the crime. In a detective story, you have a mystery at the heart... a closed circle of suspects and clues, and the detective comes in like an avenging god to put things straight."
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Why I Write: Chelsea Cain
I was pregnant with my daughter when I started writing my first thriller, so I guess you could blame hormones.
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PW Talks with Elizabeth Noble
Brit transplant Elizabeth Noble imagines what goes on behind the closed doors of an Upper East Side apartment building in The Girl Next Door.
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Author Q&A: David Gelernter: Renaissance Man Ranges from Computing to a Way of Being
As a college student studying the Bible in the 1970s, David Gelernter started writing a book on Judaism, but dropped it after realizing he needed more life experience. His grandfather’s death prompted him to resume his undergraduate project, resulting in Judaism: A Way of Being (Yale Univ.), which includes his own art. RBL talks to him about his book and its images.
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Why I Write: Sherrilyn Kenyon
I write simply because I hear voices of people in my head who won't give me peace until I convey their stories to the rest of the world. Seriously.
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PW Talks with Raj Patel
"We need to shun the idea that the only way we can shape the world is through our consumption choices."
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PW Talks with Joshua Ferris
"We're always sort of grasping at hope. The answer is always right around the corner, and yet it eludes us."
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Cooking the Books with Luisa Weiss
Cookbook editor and food blogger Luisa Weiss recently sold a memoir, My Berlin Kitchen, to Viking. On her blog, The Wednesday Chef, Weiss explained, “I'm moving back to Berlin and I'm writing a book, about Berlin, about my life, about cooking and home and family and love.” She talked to PW from her office at Stewart, Tabori and Chang, where she’s wrapping things up before departing for Berlin.
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The Monday Interview: Mary Karr
An interview with Mary Karr, whose new memoir, Lit, was published by Harper.
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PW Talks with Jonathan Dee
To the fantastically successful family in Jonathan Dee's The Privileges, failure is foreign, and money is not money. Is this perilous? Perhaps.
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