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Inspector Banks Goes Home
PW: You began your writing career as a poet, but with the publication of Close to Home you've finished your 15th novel and the 13th to feature Det. Chief Insp. Alan Banks. What led you to crime fiction?
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The Name Is Troy. Freddie Troy.
PW: Old Flames is the second novel featuring Freddie Troy. Will you continue the series?
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A Pseudonymous Author Takes on Hollywood
PW: Your novel [Man Eater] begs comparison with those of Elmore Leonard. Is he a primary influence?
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Another Hemingway Picks Up the Pen
PW: Why did you write Finding My Balance?
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Feminist Revolutionary Comes Down to Earth
PW: What motivated you to write Rock My Soul?
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Bringing Out the Best
PW: This is the third volume of Best Christian Writing. Where do you find the essays, and how do they qualify for the collection?
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On the Trail of Jack the Ripper
PW: Why did you write Portrait of a Killer?
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Unexpected Journeys
PW met Geoff Dyer at the Gramercy Hotel, which he admited "has seen better days." A short walk to a nearby Cosi coffee bar and he settled down to talk about his new collection of work.
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There's a New Book in the Neighborhood
PW spoke by telephone with Fred Rogers, who is as patient, thoughtful and kind in conversation as he appears on TV.
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Bawdy Shakespearean Comes Clean
PW: Your first three Pleasures books were published by Dell in hardcover, but Duchess in Love is being published by Avon as a mass market paperback. Why did you switch publishers?
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Grafton Finally Meets the Face Behind the Voice
Author Grafton and audiobook reader Kaye met for the first time on a recent afternoon in New York. Over Earl Grey tea and cucumber sandwiches at the St. Regis Hotel, PW spoke with the women about Q Is for Quarry, Kinsey Milhone and how they detest abridged versions.
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Novel(ist's) Advice: Write What You Know
PW: In writing your memoir [Kitchen Privileges] did you have difficulty recalling your childhood?
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A Frankenstein for Our Time
PW: Why did you pick nanotechnology gone amok as the subject matter for Prey?
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And You Thought The Gong Show Was a Hit...
Two decades after its initial publication, TV legend Chuck Barris's wild autobiography, Confessions of a Dangerous Mind, is now a major motion picture. Was Barris, the outlandish host of The Gong Show, also a CIA assassin, as he claims in his book? PW lunched with Barris at the Friar's Club in New York, while occasionally looking over both shoulders.
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Dirt Beneath the Big Dig
PW: What drew you to write about the Big Dig, a real-life urban renewal project in Boston?
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Magic Man Conjures Book
PW met with David Blaine in an unused Random House office in midtown Manhattan. The magician, who's smaller than he looks on TV and speaks with a New York drawl, engaged us in a generous, far-ranging interview capped by his performing three tricks, one with a wristwatch and two with cards, that left us speechless with wonder.
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20 Years on the Mean Streets
McMillan is the lone wolf behind Dennis McMillan Publications, specializing in noir and hard-boiled limited editions since 1983. Publishers Weekly: Why does Measures of Poison remind me of Hank Williams Jr. singing about all his rowdy friends? Dennis McMillan: Because these writers are my friends, pretty good friends, at that.
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A Publishing Career Ain't Over 'Til It's Over
Al Silverman retired in 1998 from 30 years in publishing, first as CEO of Book-of-the-Month Club and then editor and publisher of Viking, and now divides his time between an apartment in Manhattan and a house in Westchester, N.Y. He spoke with PW by phone about his new book, It's Not Over 'Til It's Over.
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A Life Filled with Tails
PW: What prompted you to write an autobiography? Dick King-Smith: About four years ago, I was having lunch with my literary agent, and he said, "You know, it's high time you wrote your memoirs." I said, "Oh, come on, that's self-indulgent rubbish." But he pressured me a bit, and then I started and it was rather fun.
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Bridging the Gap from Sci-Fi to Truth
PW: What was the impetus for writing Tomorrow Now?
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