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It Doesn’t Have to Be This Way: PW Talks with Chris Matthews
In Tip and the Gipper: When Politics Worked, Hardball (Simon & Schuster, Oct.) host Chris Matthews, former administrative assistant to Tip O’Neill, chronicles the Speaker of the House’s combative but productive relationship with President Reagan, pointing out the lessons it offers for today’s politicians—and voters.
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The Writer’s Version: PW Talks with Daniel Woodrell
With his latest novel The Maid’s Version (Little, Brown, Sept.), Missouri writer Daniel Woodrell digs into the rich history of the Ozarks to create a slim masterpiece of literary fiction.
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Murder Will Out: PW Talks With Mark I. Pinsky
Journalist Pinsky travels deep into the mountains of western North Carolina to investigate a 40-year-old murder mystery in Met Her On The Mountain.
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Traveling Treasure Islands: PW talks with J. Maarten Troost
In his latest travel memoir, Headhunters On My Doorstep, a newly sober Troost traces Robert Louis Stevenson’s journey through the South Pacific, encountering adventure while reflecting on the beauty and history of the islands along with the nature of addiction and recovery.
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The War Drones On: PW Talks with Lloyd C. Gardner
With Killing Machine: The American Presidency in the Age of Drone Warfare, historian Gardner analyzes America’s obsession with fighting a perpetual high-tech, low-casualty war on terrorism.
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A Vulnerable Russian Investigator: PW Talks with Martin Cruz Smith
Martin Cruz Smith’s eighth Arkady Renko novel, Tatiana, centers on the mysterious death of a Russian journalist.
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A Lonely and Hostile Place: PW Talks with Charles Palliser
Charles Palliser’s bold Gothic thriller, Rustication, his first novel since 1999’s The Unburied, is a story of secrets set in an isolated corner of Victorian England.
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Great Expectations: PW Talks with Debora L. Spar
In Wonder Women: Sex, Power, and the Quest for Perfection (Sept. 17), Barnard College president Debora L. Spar questions the idea of “having it all.”
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Taking Sides: PW Talks with Bill McKibben
In Oil and Honey: The Education of an Unlikely Activist (Sept. 17), award-winning journalist and educator Bill McKibben (Eaarth) recounts his experiences building a grassroots movement to fight climate change and fossil fuel dependency.
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Water World: PW Talks with Lincoln Paine
In The Sea and Civilization: A Maritime History of the World, maritime historian Paine eschews a traditional land-centric approach to studying human cultures by examining how water-based trade and travel affected the rise and fall of civilizations throughout history.
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Seventh Time’s a Charm: PW Talks with Anita Shreve
In her 17th novel, Stella Bain, Anita Shreve tells the story of a woman traumatized by her experiences in World War I.
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The Robert B. Parker Code: PW Talks with Helen Brann
Helen Brann, Robert B. Parker’s longtime agent, has completed the final Spenser novel, Silent Night.
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Q & A with William Wegman
William Wegman is and his silvery Weimaraners are back with Flo & Wendell, a goofy, winsome sister-and-brother, the first of a number of books he's signed on to do with Dial.
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Q & A with Todd Strasser
Todd Strasser drew from his own childhood to write Fallout, about a father who builds the only bomb shelter in the neighborhood as the Cold War heats up in 1962.
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Saying Goodbye: A Conversation with David Dow - Pets & Animals 2013
In the years following the blockbuster success of 2005’s Marley & Me by John Grogan, the number of memoirs that focus on loss and grief—particularly around beloved pets—has grown.
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The Come-Back Study: PW Talks With Jamie Moyer and Larry Platt
Last year, at age 49, Jamie Moyer became the oldest pitcher in Major League Baseball to win a game. Just Tell Me I Can't, co-written with Larry Platt, is an inspirational investigation into the craft of pitching.
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Death is the Thing With Feathers: PW Talks With Anna Jansson
In Anna Jansson’s Strange Bird, the first Maria Wern thriller to be translated into English, a strain of avian flu transmitted by a pigeon devastates the Swedish island of Gotland.
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Druidic Designs: PW Talks with Graham Robb
Robb’s The Discovery of Middle Earth: Mapping the Lost World of the Celts takes a look at how the indigenous, pre-Roman people of Europe plotted their whole world according to a complex web of “solstice lines.”
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Bombs Away: PW Talks with Sara Paretsky
Critical Mass, Sara Paretsky’s 17th crime novel featuring Chicago private eye V.I. Warshawski, explores a present-day missing persons case—and pre-WWII Austria.
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Friendship as Survival Tactic: PW Talks with Beverly Gologorsky
Beverly Gologorsky’s novel Stop Here examines the impact of the war in Iraq on blue collar families in Long Island, N.Y., focusing on women, as she did in the case of the Vietnam War in her debut novel, The Things We Do to Make It Home, which was first published in 1999.
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