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Pollution Politics: PW Talks with E.G. Vallianatos
Former EPA analyst Vallianatos exposes the agency’s failure to safeguard the environment and public health in Poison Spring: The Secret History of Pollution and the E.P.A.
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The Making of a Truth-Force: PW Talks with Ramachandra Guha
Much of Mohandas Gandhi’s historical life is obscured by the iconic nature of his fame.
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An Extremely Old Dirty Harry: PW Talks with Daniel Friedman
In Daniel Friedman’s second Buck Schatz mystery, Don’t Ever Look Back, the 87-year-old former Memphis, Tenn., cop shows his age.
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On Horseback in Afghanistan: PW Talks with Aaron Gwyn
In Wynne’s War, Aaron Gwyn blends modern warfare with a western theme, as horse-mounted U.S. Special Forces soldiers on a secret, unsanctioned mission battle the Taliban.
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A World Imagined Is Always More Convincing: PW Talks With Benjamin Black
Raymond Chandler’s iconic private eye, Philip Marlowe, walks the mean streets of Los Angeles once again in The Black-Eyed Blonde, by John Banville, under his alias for writing mysteries, Benjamin Black.
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Not an Archetypal Tough Guy: PW Talks with Johnny Shaw
Johnny Shaw’s third novel, Plaster City: A Jimmy Veeder Fiasco, continues the adventures of Jimmy Veeder, a semi-reformed brawler and family man, in California’s Imperial Valley.
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Laughing in the Dark: PW Talks with Elizabeth McCracken
The stories in Elizabeth McCracken’s new collection, Thunderstruck & Other Stories, find characters on the cusp of life-altering events.
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Q & A with Sheila Turnage
2013 Newbery Honoree Sheila Turnage returns with "The Ghosts of Tupelo Landing," another charming mystery in desperate need of unraveling by the indefatigable Mo LoBeau.
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Q & A with Trent Reedy
For "Divided We Fall," Trent Reedy draws upon his time as an Army National Guardsman to tell the story of a young man caught up in an impossible struggle that threatens to tear America apart.
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A Tale of Trust and Betrayal: PW Talks with Colette McBeth
A London-based TV news reporter, Rachel Walsh, investigates the disappearance of a young woman who turns out to be her former best friend, in Colette McBeth’s first novel, Precious Thing.
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Artificial Categorizations: PW Talks with Helen Oyeyemi
Nigerian-born Brit Helen Oyeyemi, whose first novel was published when she was 20, is a constant on “best of” lists like Granta’s.
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Cretaceous Traces: PW Talks with Anthony J. Martin
In Dinosaurs Without Bones: Dinosaur Lives Revealed by Their Trace Fossils, paleontologist Martin explores dinosaur life through ichnology—the study of tracks, nests, droppings, and other non-bone relics of ancient life.
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Death Lessons for Life: PW Talks With David R. Dow
As a lawyer who defends inmates on death row, David Dow confronts death on daily basis.
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Q & A with Melissa Gilbert
In "Daisy and Josephine," the "Little House on the Prairie" star's first picture book, a lonely girl travels around the world with her celebrity father, just like Melissa Gilbert did while growing up.
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Four Questions for...Author Tiphanie Yanique
Last month Yanique was awarded the Center for Fiction's Flaherty-Dunnan First Novel Prize for 'Land of Love and Drowning.'
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Junior Ray Returns: Q&A with John Pritchard
John Pritchard talks about Junior Ray’s new adventures as a “diktective” in "Sailing to Alluvium", the third installment of his critically acclaimed series.
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The Teller and the Tale: PW Talks with Walter Kirn
Walter Kirn (Up in the Air) had no idea what he was in for when he agreed to deliver an injured dog to “Clark Rockefeller,” a gifted con man and murderer, and the subject of Kirn’s gripping Blood Will Out: The True Story of a Murder, a Mystery, and a Masquerade.
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‘My Fair Lady’ Meets ‘Psycho’: PW Talks with Jean Zimmerman
A feral child unsettles Gilded Age New York City in Jean Zimmerman’s Savage Girl.
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Forces of Nature: PW Talks with Amy Greene
Greene’s second novel, Long Man, is a family chronicle set in Tennessee, in which a girl disappears and a river keeps rising.
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Video: Colum McCann on 'TransAtlantic'
We talk with Colum McCann about his new book, "TransAtlantic," what inspired him to write it, and the two novels he has sitting in a drawer.
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