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A Letter to the Future: PW Talks with Daniel Nieh
In Nieh’s first novel, 'Beijing Payback' (Ecco, July), California college basketball star Victor Li discovers his father’s apparently random murder is linked to a crime syndicate in China.
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Secondarily, My Dear Holmes: PW Talks with Claire O’Dell
O’Dell’s 'The Hound of Justice' (Harper Voyager, July), her second Janet Watson chronicle, features very different versions
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Hotel Bohemia: PW Talks with Fiona Davis
'Chelsea Girls' (Dutton, Aug.) centers on New York’s Chelsea Hotel at the end of WWII and the friendship between budding playwright Hazel Ripley and rising starlet Maxine Mead.
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Q & A with Isabel Quintero and Zeke Peña
PW spoke with author Isabel Quintero and illustrator Zeke Peña about their new picture book, 'My Papi Has a Motorcycle,' and the power of memory.
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Q & A with David Macaulay
We spoke with David Macaulay about his new book, 'Crossing on Time: Steam Engines, Fast Ships, and a Journey to the New World,' his first with an autobiographical bent.
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Building Better Monsters: PW Talks with Maureen Callahan
In 'American Predator: The Hunt for the Most Meticulous Serial Killer of the 21st Century' (Viking, July), investigative journalist Callahan exposes the stranger-than-fiction story of serial killer Israel Keyes.
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A Top-Down Problem: PW Talks with Emily Guendelsberger
In 'On the Clock: What Low-Wage Work Did to Me and How It Drives America Insane' (Little, Brown, July), journalist Guendelsberger analyzes her experiences working in an Amazon warehouse, a customer service call center, and a McDonald’s franchise.
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Deus Ex Machina: PW talks with David Weinberger
In ‘Everyday Chaos’ (Harvard Business Review, May), Weinberger explores modern technology’s implications for the business world and the ways in which humans and machines, sometimes uneasily, coexist.
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Defanging the Corporate Beast: PW talks with Rana Foroohar
Sparked by her child’s $900 worth of in-app purchases in a month, Foroohar’s ‘Don’t Be Evil’ (Currency, Nov.) delves into how big tech captures and monetizes personal data.
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Funding the Poets: PW Talks with Elizabeth Alexander
We spoke with poet Elizabeth Alexander, the president of the Mellon Foundation, about the recent $2.2 million in funding the charitable organization provided to the Academy of American Poets.
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Q & A with Lynda Mullaly Hunt
PW spoke with Lynda Mullaly Hunt about her new middle grade novel, 'Shouting at the Rain,' and how she develops memorable characters.
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Elizabeth Acevedo on 'With the Fire on High'
After the success of her debut novel in verse, 'The Poet X,' whose cover is now adorned with the National Book Award and Printz Award medals, Elizabeth Acevedo’s new novel, 'With the Fire on High,' explores similar themes of family and heritage.
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Is Aging a Disease?: PW Talks with Louise Aronson and David Sinclair
Aronson, author of ‘Elderhood,’ and Sinclair, author of ‘Lifespan,’ answered PW’s questions about how the medical community and the public address growing older.
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Elephants at Work: PW Talks with Jacob Shell
In 'Giants of the Monsoon Forest' (Norton, June), geography professor Shell explores a surprising connection between humans and Asian elephants.
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The Raw, Naked, Beating Heart Underneath: Talks with Raphael Bob-Waksberg
Bob-Waksberg, creator of 'BoJack Horseman,' examines love in its various forms in his first collection, 'Someone Who Will Love You in All Your Damaged Glory' (Knopf, May).
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A Perfect Stranger: Talks with Cambria Brockman
Brockman’s debut, 'Tell Me Everything' (Ballantine, July), features Malin Ahlberg, a smart and popular college student with manipulative tendencies and a troubled past.
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Behind the Scenes: 'Music for Mister Moon'
Caldecott Medalist Erin Stead gives us a visual tour of her illustration process for her new picture book with husband Philip Stead.
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Q & A with Rebecca Solnit
PW spoke with historian, activist, and author Rebecca Solnit about her children's debut, 'Cinderella Liberator,' a feminist fairy tale retelling.
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A Near-Future History Lesson: PW Talks with Agnes Gomillion
In 'The Record Keeper' (Titan, June), set in a racially stratified near-future America, a woman coopted into the repression of her people pivots to leading a rebellion.
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The Business of Eating: PW Talks with Ed Levine
In 'Serious Eater' (Portfolio, June), food writer and entrepreneur Levine shares his story of launching 'Serious Eats.'
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