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Cooking the Books with Andrea Israel and Nancy Garfinkel
Andrea Israel and Nancy Garfinkel pictured their novel-slash-cookbook, The Recipe Club: A Tale of Food and Friendship, as a beautifully designed hardcover, color throughout, incorporating recipes and other illustrations with narrative text. Traditional publishers bucked at their vision, so the two Brooklynites decided to publish it themselves, and founded Polhemus Press.
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Uneasy in the Big Easy: PW talks with Ethan Brown
"Iraq War veterans and New Orleanians are the toughest of tough crowds."
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Road to Redemption: PW Talks with Michelle Huneven
"I also wanted to write a book about somebody who didn't feel like she was a good person. What if you don't know if you're owned by darkness or not?"
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Q & A with Elizabeth Bluemle
Formerly editorial director of a small press, creative director of a book packager and a school librarian, and currently a bookseller, author and blogger, Elizabeth Bluemle knows publishing from the inside out. Bookshelf managed to catch her at a rare quiet moment, to ask her about juggling her various book-related pursuits and about her third picture book.
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The Monday Interview: George Dawes Green
An interview with George Dawes Green, whose new novel, from Grand Central, is titled Ravens.
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Small Town, Big Stakes: PW talks with Nancy Mauro
In Mauro's debut, New World Monkeys, struggling young marrieds Duncan and Lily spend a summer in upstate New York contending with a dead wild boar and the human bones in their backyard.
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'Politics Is Predictable': PW Talks with Bruce Bueno de Mesquita
In The Predictioneer's Game, Bueno de Mesquita illustrates, with a mathematical model that quantifies self-interest, how we can use game theory to predict—and influence—future events.
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Q & A with Michael Grant
Michael Grant has written over 150 books, most notably the Animorphs and Everworld series (which he co-authored with his wife, Katherine Applegate). The Gone books, his first solo novels, feature a distinctive hook: everyone over the age of 14 in the small California town of Perdido Beach has gone missing. To make matters worse for the children, there’s an impenetrable forcefield around the town and some of the kids are starting to develop strange powers.
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Wall Street Noir: PW talks with Norb Vonnegut
Norb Vonnegut's debut, Top Producers, details intricate Wall Street scams, but at heart it's about friendship and betrayal more than stocks and bonds.
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Men at War: PW talks with Evie Wyld
Repressed trauma trickles down through generations of Australian veterans, POWs and recluses in Evie Wyld's After the Fire, a Still Small Voice. Think Annie Proulx by way of North Queensland.
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Paradise Found: PW talks with Rebecca Solnit
What constitutes a disaster? It's a question of scale.
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Why I Write: Jimmy Santiago Baca
I'm a poet and I've written a dozen or so poetry books, a collection of essays, short stories and a memoir, but never a novel until now.
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Q & A with Sharon M. Draper
Sharon M. Draper has been busy of late, with her new Sassy series for tween girls from Scholastic, as well as the release of Just Another Hero (Atheneum), the final book in her Jericho trilogy. The former teacher now writes fulltime, and does school visits and appearances. PW caught up with the author to talk about her writing life.
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Volcano Stories: A PW Web-Exclusive Profile of Yrsa Sigurdardottir
Internationally bestselling Icelandic crime writer Yrsa Sigurdardottir on lame crime, being in Amazon.com's psycho database and shaking up the Scandinavian crime novel boys club.
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PW profiles Charles Todd: the mother and son mystery writing team
Masters of psychologically complex detective stories set in the aftermath of WWI, the mother-son team of Caroline and Charles Todd, who write under the name Charles Todd, have a new series featuring a female detective set in the same period.
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A Wake Up Call to the West: PW talks with Alex Dryden
Alex Dryden is the pseudonym of a British journalist who lived in Russia for more than 15 years. Red to Black is his first novel, a thriller that offers a sobering view of Putin's Russia.
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Q & A with Jarrett J. Krosoczka
Author/illustrator Jarrett J. Krosoczka is best known for his picture books; his latest books are a bit of a departure, and are his first foray into the comic/graphic novel format. We caught up with Krosoczka to find out about his latest projects, and whether or not he has a “thing” for any lunch ladies in particular.
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Leaving New England: PW Profiles Tracy Kidder
PW Interview with author Tracy Kidder
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A Model Family: PW Talks with Eugenia Kim
In Eugenia Kim's elegant debut, The Calligrapher's Daughter, a young woman comes of age in tumultuous early 20th-century Korea as the country is ravaged by Japan.
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Sedaris Small City Tour Playing Big
David Sedaris is drawing big crowds at the small cities he is hitting as part of his tour for the paperback release of When You Are Engulfed in Flames.
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