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Supernatural Sleuthing: PW Talks with Mike Ashley
In 'Fighters of Fear' (Talos, Feb.), Ashley has assembled the definitive anthology of occult detective short stories.
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A Song of Freedom: PW Talks with Ben Okri
In Okri’s 'The Freedom Artist' (Akashic, Feb.), a man searches for a woman imprisoned after asking revolutionary questions in a dystopian world.
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A Coalition of Genres: PW Talks with Cathy Park Hong
In 'Minor Feelings' (One World, Feb.), poet Hong explores the Asian-American experience.
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Mind Games: PW Talks with Isabel Greenberg
Greenberg blends historical fiction and fantasy in 'Glass Town' (Abrams ComicArts, Mar.), a graphic novel inspired by the imaginary worlds the Brontë siblings created as children.
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From the President’s Desk: PW Talks with Craig Fehrman
In 'Author in Chief' (Avid Reader, Feb.), historian Fehrman examines the tradition of U.S. presidents as authors.
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Regency Risk Takers: PW Talks with Anna Harrington
In Harrington’s 'An Inconvenient Duke' (Sourcebooks Casablanca, Mar.), Marcus, a duke on a mission to avenge his sister’s murder, falls for Danielle, who secretly runs a charity for abused women.
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Stan Lee, 'A Marvelous Life': PW Talks with Danny Fingeroth
Danny Fingeroth’s biography of the late editor, author and former chairman of Marvel Comics Stan Lee, 'A Marvelous Life', published this month by St. Martin’s Press, is a loving but sharp-eyed account of the life and career of the man who the author worked under earlier in his comics career.
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The King of Pop Art:PW Talks with Blake Gopnik
In 'Warhol' (Ecco, Apr.), art critic Gopnik explores Andy Warhol’s eccentric life.
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Performer to Prophet: PW Talks with Jacob S. Dorman
Dorman’s 'The Princess and the Prophet' (Beacon, Mar.) details the life of entertainer and spiritual leader John Walter Brister, better known as Nobel Drew Ali, the founder of the Moorish Science Temple of America.
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Reaching Out to a Hurting World: PW Talks with Ruth Everhart
Pastor Ruth Everhart examines #MeToo and the church in her latest book.
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Q & A with Tomi Adeyemi
We spoke with YA author Tomi Adeyemi about 'Children of Virtue and Vengeance,' book two of her bestselling West African-inspired Orïsha Legacy trilogy.
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Four Questions for Vashti Harrison
We spoke with Vashti Harrison about her new book for young readers, 'Little Legends: Exceptional Men in Black History,' the third volume in her illustrated nonfiction series about notable, often little-known figures in black history.
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Crimes Against Nature: PW talks with Joshua Hammer
Joshua Hammer’s ‘The Falcon Thief’ (Simon & Schuster, Feb. 2020), is a tale of international intrigue, the lucrative market for birds of prey, and the efforts to protect avian species that had been driven to the brink of extinction.
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The Great Pretenders: PW talks with Matt Ruff
In Matt Ruff’s seventh novel, '88 Names' (Harper, Mar. 2020), he follows the exploits of a digital sherpa who leads gamers through the challenges and dangers of a virtual world.
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Words on the Wing: PW Talks with Robert Tougias
Tougias’s 'Birder on Berry Lane' (Imagine, Mar.) gives a month-by-month account of the birds that pass through his backyard over the course of one year.
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Know Yourself: PW Talks with Jessi Jezewska Stevens
In Stevens’s debut, 'The Exhibition of Persephone Q' (Farrar, Straus and Giroux, Mar.), a woman named Percy discovers that photographs of her are part of an exhibition.
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Four Questions for B.J. Novak
We spoke with comedian, actor, and author B.J. Novak about ‘My Book with No Pictures,’ an interactive companion to his bestselling ‘The Book with No Pictures.’
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Why Not Try to Fight Back?: PW Talks with Jane McAlevey
Labor organizer McAlevey argues that unions are essential to American democracy in 'A Collective Bargain' (Ecco, Jan.).
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A Ghost Story: PW Talks with Emily St. John Mandel
Mandel’s 'The Glass Hotel' (Knopf, Mar.) offers a portrait of a sister and her half-brother that is part ghost story, part mystery, and part morality tale about financial crime.
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The Debutante: PW Talks with Martha Waters
With ‘To Have and To Hoax’ (Atria, Apr. 2020), first-time romance novelist Martha Waters aims for the funny bone.
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