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Past Present: PW Talks with Patricio Pron
Patricio Pron’s autobiographical novel, My Father’s Ghost is Climbing in the Rain, takes on Argentina’s legacy of political oppression and struggle.
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Die Another Day: PW Talks With Duane Swierczynski
In Point and Shoot, Duane Swierczynski wraps up a manic action trilogy featuring Charlie Hardie, an unlikely hero.
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Level the Mountain: PW Talks With Scott McClanahan
In Crapalachia, a “biography” of his native rural West Virginia, Scott McClanahan approaches heavy topics such as death with ease, and his tone fluctuates between reverence and irreverence, levity and gravity.
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The Accidental Radical: PW Talks with Judy Juanita
Poet, playwright, professor, and former Black Panther Judy Juanita makes her debut as a novelist with the semi-autobiographical Virgin Soul.
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Q & A with Nora Raleigh Baskin
This year sees publication of Nora Raleigh Baskin's ninth and tenth novels: this month's Surfacing, a YA novel, and the middle-grade Runt.
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Q & A with Linda Urban
Bookseller-turned-author Linda Urban's third book, The Center of Everything, follows 12-year-old Ruby as she deals with the passing of her grandmother and tries to make her greatest wish come true.
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A Year of Joy: PW Talks With Susan Spencer-Wendel
Diagnosed with ALS (Lou Gehrig’s Disease) in 2011, journalist Susan Spencer-Wendel knew she would have to write about her experiences sooner rather than later.
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This Is What Democracy Looks Like: PW Talks with Ivo Mosley
Ivo Mosley’s In the Name of The People: Pseudo-Democracy and the Spoiling of Our World seeks to set the record straight: electoral representation is not true democracy.
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Sex from Every Angle: PW Talks with Donna Freitas and Abraham Morgentaler
Donna Freitas has a Ph.D. in religious studies and teaches religion at Boston University.
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The Ant Whisperer: PW Talks with Edward O. Wilson
Edward O. Wilson went from collecting ants around his childhood Alabama home to being the world’s leading expert in myrmecology.
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Failed Spies: PW Talks with Mick Herron
Dead Lions, the second in your Slough House series, appears to be a big departure from your earlier books.
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Hollywood Ending: PW Talks with Alison Sweeney
After 20 years on Days of Our Lives and six seasons hosting The Biggest Loser, Alison Sweeney turns her busy hand to fiction, with The Star Attraction, a winning debut.
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Q & A with Marcus Pfister
Marcus Pfister, whose Rainbow Fish books have sold 30 million copies worldwide, speaks about his various projects past and present.
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Imagination Ignorant of Genre: PW Talks with Steve Rasnic Tem
Prolific horror and weird fiction writer Steve Rasnic Tem’s latest collection, Onion Songs, defies genres as it examines themes of identity, aging, and loss.
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Subject to Interpretation: PW Talks with Marisa Silver
For her third novel, Mary Coin, Marisa Silver crafted a story based on Dorothea Lange’s now-iconic Depression-era photo “Migrant Mother,” weaving three lives together over a 90-year span while exploring the interplay of personal relationships and documentary objects.
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Spies and Honey Traps: PW Talks with Jason Matthews
Jason Matthews draws on his CIA experience for his first novel, Red Sparrow.
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Evoking the Old World: PW Talks with Helene Wecker
Helene Wecker’s debut novel, The Golem and the Jinni, brings together two mythical beings from very different cultures—a golem from a Polish shtetl and a jinni from ancient Syria—in teeming turn-of-the-century New York.
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Unsung Hero: PW Talks with Susan Zuccotti
In Père Marie-Benoît and Jewish Rescue: How a French Priest Together with Jewish Friends Saved Thousands During the Holocaust, historian Susan Zuccotti rescues a heroic figure from obscurity.
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Better, Stronger, Faster: PW Talks with Shiloh Walker
The heroine of Shiloh Walker’s Wrecked uses the real-world book Wreck This Journal to tear her life down and rebuild it, with unexpected romantic help from a friend who’s harbored a secret crush on her for years.
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