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What Happened Next?
WHAT HAPPENED NEXT? These sequels are sure to get kids fired up about reading this summer. In a starred review, PW wrote that Annie Barrows’s Ivy & Bean, available this month in paperback, “brims with sprightly dialogue” and is “just right for kids moving on from beginning readers.
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Space Race--or Rocket Race?
The 1957 Soviet launch of Sputnik started the space race. In Red Moon Rising, Matthew Brzezinski (nephew of former national security adviser Zbigniew Brzezinski) launches readers back to that moment in time.
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Redefining Paranormal Romance
Paula Guran, editor of the anthology Best New Paranormal Romance, has delivered a second anthology under Prime Publisher's new Juno imprint, Best New Romantic Fantasy (Reviews, July 9).
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Children's Bookshelf Talks with Chris Crutcher
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Children's Bookshelf Talks with Philip Reeve
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The CIA's Dirty Laundry: PW Talks with Tim Weiner
PW talks with Tim Weiner, author of Legacy of Ashes (Doubleday), a hard look at the CIA's track record.
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Writer, Edit Thyself
A writer’s work isn’t done when the last word is written, says Susan Bell.
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The Bible Guy
Surely it violates a commandment to have this much fun with the Bible. Despite the risk of being struck by lightning, PW sat down with Jacobs to discuss his weird and wonderful Year of Living Biblically.
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Nagoonberries to L.A.!
After a sketch-writing gig for MAD-TV, appearances on The Tonight Show, an HBO comedy special and a Lambda Literary Award for his memoir Openly Bob, the New York—based gay comedian turns in a comic novel, Selfish & Perverse (Reviews, June 4), set in L.A. and Alaska.
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The Bible Guy: RBL Talks with A.J. Jacobs
Surely it violates a commandment to have this much fun with the Bible. Despite the risk of being struck by lightning, RBL sat down with Jacobs to discuss his weird and wonderful Year of Living Biblically.
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The Unknowability of Other People
In British author Michael Marshall’s latest thriller, The Intruders (Reviews, June 4), Jack Whalen, an ex-LAPD cop, is pursuing a new career as a writer in Oregon when some strange happenings start to undermine his pursuit of the American dream.
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Writing in the Blind Spot
The Rest of Her Life explores what happens when a mother’s childhood intrudes on her daughter’s.
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On Learning New Tricks
In Painting Chinese (Reviews, May 14), Herbert Kohl, a teacher and author of more than 40 books on education, discusses his experience taking a beginner’s course in Chinese landscape painting. On the first day of class he was surprised to discover that he was the oldest student by more than 60 years.
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Pete Hamill's New York Stories: A PW Web Exclusive Q & A
Pete Hamill’s new novel, North River, is being by published by Little, Brown. Hamill spoke to PW about the book and his writing plans for the future.
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Sufism’s Scholar
Seyyed Hossein Nasr’s latest book on Sufism, The Garden of Truth: The Promise of Sufism, Islam’s Mystical Tradition (p. 56) reveals the mystical branch of Islam.
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Signs of Pure Language
In Talking Hands (Reviews, May 14), journalist Margalit Fox takes readers on a groundbreaking research expedition to study a unique sign language invented in Al Sayyid, a remote Bedouin village where isolation and genetics have created an unusual language laboratory.
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Imagining the 18th Century In-Crowd
Sophie Gee is a literature professor with an Ivy League pedigree, but her imagination gives her erudition a run for its money in her first novel, The Scandal of the Season, a chronicle of the sexy, seedy side of 18th-century London.
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Children's Bookshelf Talks with Jerry Spinelli
Bookshelf talked to Jerry Spinelli, author of Newbery winner Maniac Magee and Newbery Honor Book Wringer, about his follow-up to Stargirl: the forthcoming Love, Stargirl (Knopf).
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RBL Talks to Seyyed Hossein Nasr, Sufism's Scholar
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