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PW Talks with Leila Meacham
Leila Meacham makes a grand return after a 20-year absence with Roses, a compelling East Texas saga with echoes of Gone with the Wind.
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PW Talks with John Rich
"Trauma changes the body; it changes behavior and in the social context of poverty and violence, it may be the real thing we have to deal with."
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Q & A with 'Teen Vogue' Editor Amy Astley
Astley spoke with PW from Teen Vogue Fashion University, a series of workshops and seminars for teenagers interested in fashion, about the new Teen Vogue Handbook.
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Cooking the Books with Ann Mah
Former Viking assistant editor Ann Mah left New York for Beijing, took a job as the dining editor for the English-language magazine That’s Beijing, and wrote a novel about a young Chinese-American woman who moves to Beijing in the midst of an identity crisis. Mah spoke to PW from Paris, where she now lives, about Kitchen Chinese: A Novel about Food, Family, and Finding Yourself, which Avon will publish as a paperback original.
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PW Talks with Stan Jones
"I lived for some time in a remote Arctic village, where I became fascinated by the Eskimo culture. I wanted to write some kind of crime fiction... and when I read Hillerman in the 1980s, the light went on."
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PW Talks with Xiaoda Xiao
"I hope to make people understand what we [in China] went through collectively, the terror in its daily and hourly incarnation. Just like Kafka, you know?"
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Q & A with Sharon Robinson
Q: What was the actual event that inspired this book?
A: In 1955, my parents moved our family from New York City to Stamford, Connecticut, and on our property was a lake that was a source of all kinds of pleasure for us throughout the seasons. The first winter we lived there, my siblings and I wanted to go ice-skating and my mother said we could - as long as my father tested the ice first to make sure it was safe. He agreed to do that - with reluctance. You see, he couldn't swim. -
PW Talks with Thomas Keller
"We always have to understand that the quality of our effort is going to be defined by the products that we have, whether it's the butter or the eggs, the peas, the carrots, whatever—and our ability to cook it."
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PW Talks with Laura Griffin
"It probably goes back to my days as a newspaper reporter, but I really believe the best way to get information is to track down the experts and ask them to share what they know. Everyone has stories to tell."
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Why I Write: Buzz Bissinger
Reading the newspaper was a given ritual, like smoking cigarettes on airplanes. I fell quickly in love as a nine- and 10-year-old. It all seemed impossible—a new round of information every 24 hours—and impossibly romantic.
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Q & A with Elizabeth Partridge
Q: Had you been contemplating a book on the Civil Rights Movement before you saw photographer Matt Herron’s photos? You credit him with jumpstarting the book.
A: No, I had not had the least inkling to do a book on the Civil Rights Movement. And then I ran into Matt’s Web site. I fell in love with his photos, 100 percent in love with what he had done on the march, and I just wanted to get those photos out there. -
Cooking the Books with Thomas Keller
Chef Thomas Keller may be known for his high-end cooking (miniature salmon tartare ice cream cone, anyone?), but his newest book, Ad Hoc at Home, is his most accessible yet. Keller took a few minutes on a recent afternoon to sit in the yard outside The French Laundry in Napa Valley, California, to talk about why he loves comfort food.
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PW Talks with Norberto Fuentes
Norberto Fuentes, a 66-year-old former Castro associate now living in exile in Florida, gets into the head of the commandant in his startling and surprisingly funny novel, The Autobiography of Fidel Castro.
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Q & A with Patrick Ness
Q: Your first two books were written for adults. What made you decide to write YA fiction, and how is it different from writing adult fiction?
A: I was playing around with an idea for a long time. It didn’t originally start as a young adult novel. The voice was an adolescent voice, though, and I thought, "Well, that's interesting." I tried to let the material tell me what it was, rather than forcing it to be something. I found it really liberating, actually. -
The Monday Interview: 'The Gates'
An interview with John Connolly, whose new novel, The Gates, will be published by Atria.
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PW Talks with Al Roker
"I just wondered whether I could really do it. I know about morning television, I know about cooking, but I don’t really know about killing people."
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Q & A with Katherine Paterson
Q: What inspired you to write this book?
A: This is the first time in my long life as a writer when somebody has suggested a story to me and I’ve taken the suggestion. Some years ago, our church sponsored a refugee family from Kosovo, and a good friend of mine said you should write the Haxhuis’ story. And so I went over there... -
Cooking the Books with Ree Drummond, aka The Pioneer Woman
Morrow will release The Pioneer Woman Cooks by Ree Drummond, who writes the blogs Confessions of a Pioneer Woman and Pioneer Woman Cooks. Drummond’s loyal fans—her site registers two million visitors a month—helped make The Pioneer Woman Cooks the #1 pre-ordered hardcover on Amazon recently. The author talked to PW from her Oklahoma ranch about her writing, from blog to cookbook to a forthcoming narrative nonfiction book.
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Why I Write: Rebecca Rosen
"It was when I was in this very dark and shameful place that I called out for help, and that's when my grandmother Babe, the one who died when I was a young girl, answered the call."
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Fetal Environmental Protection Acts
In More than Genes (Reviews, Aug. 24), Dan Agin says babies are being exposed to environmental toxins before birth—sometimes with severe consequences You say we are surrounded by toxins that can harm a fetus. How toxic is the U.S. compared with other countries? That's a difficult question to answer because we don't have as many regulations as the Europeans do, but that doesn't mean that t...
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