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Extraordinary Children: PW Talks with Andrew Solomon
Andrew Solomon’s new book from Scribner, Far from the Tree, is a behemoth worth every one of its 976 pages.
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Q & A with Jasper Fforde
Best known for his literary spoofs starring detective Thursday Next, British author Jasper Fforde dips into the YA pool with The Last Dragonslayer, first in a trilogy about an orphan who finds herself in charge of a boarding house/employment agency for wizards and magicians. Fforde spoke with Bookshelf while in Atlanta as part of a month-long U.S. tour, about his inspiration for the new series.
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Video: Daniel Handler on Lemony Snicket and 'Who Could That Be at This Hour?'
Bestselling author Daniel Handler talks about his relationship with Lemony Snicket and his new book, 'Who Could That Be at This Hour?'
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Q & A with Stephen Savage
Stephen Savage, whose latest book, Little Tug, is out this month, shares the story of his artistic beginnings.
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Off the Grid: PW Talks with Jared Diamond
Pulitzer Prize–winning author and UCLA professor of geography Jared Diamond applies his experiences and research in The World Until Yesterday: What Can We Learn from Traditional Societies?
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God Is the Gift of Desperation: PW Talks with Anne Lamott
Anne Lamott fans who can’t get enough of her trademark humorous-neurotic-spiritual voice will thank their Higher Power for a second book this year from the essayist and novelist. (Earlier in 2012 Lamott published Some Assembly Required, about unexpectedly becoming a grandmother.) Help Thanks Wow: The Three Essential Prayers is what you would get if you crossed Brother Lawrence’s religious classic The Practice of the Presence of God with a Tina Fey routine.
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Father Doesn't Always Know Best: PW Talks with Robert Gottlieb
Former Knopf and New Yorker editor–in-chief Robert Gottlieb illuminates Charles Dickens’s family life in Great Expectations: The Sons and Daughters of Charles Dickens.
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Steamboats, Mermaids, and the Hudson River: PW Talks with Mark Siegel
Produced over the course of nine years of research, writing, and drawing, Sailor Twain, the story of mysterious doings on a 19th-century steamboat plying the Hudson River, is a debut graphic novel by Mark Seigel, author of graphic nonfiction as well as children’s books, and editorial director of First Second Books, Macmillan’s graphic novel imprint.
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Who or What Done It? PW Talks with Peter F. Hamilton
In Great North Road, space opera master Hamilton blends near-future science fiction with a pair of murder mysteries.
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Thin Man Encore: PW Talks with Julie M. Rivett
Return of the Thin Man, edited by Dashiell Hammett scholar Richard Layman and Hammett’s granddaughter Julie M. Rivett, collects the two Dashiell Hammett screen stories that became the films After the Thin Man (1936) and Another Thin Man (1939).
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Q & A with Bob Balaban
Actor, producer, and director Bob Balaban has appeared on stage, on TV, and in nearly 100 movies, including Midnight Cowboy, Close Encounters of the Third Kind, and Gosford Park. In 2002, he added "author" to his impressive list of credits, with his six-book McGrowl series for middle-graders. Now Balaban makes a new foray into fiction with Boy or Beast, the launch title of the Creature from the Seventh Grade series.
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Skyships Ahoy: PW Talks with Beth Ciotta
In the steampunk series launch Her Sky Cowboy, Beth Ciotta pairs up explorer Amelia Darcy and airship pilot Tucker Gentry in an alternate Victorian England invaded by 1960s time travelers.
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A Surprising Kind of Art: PW Talks with Blake Butler
With Sky Saw, HTML Giant editor Blake Butler evokes a nightmarish apocalypse with meticulous, claustrophobic prose.
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Q & A with Lucy Cousins
The last time British author and illustrator Lucy Cousins, who has more than 30 million books in print worldwide, visited this side of the pond was to celebrate the 10th birthday of her most famous creation, Maisy. That was in 2000, just after Maisy debuted in her own TV series on Nick Jr. So when Cousins arrived for a brief visit earlier this month, PW jumped at the opportunity to catch up with her.
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The ''Ruff'' Road to Recovery: PW Talks with Lisa Edwards
Lisa Edwards was looking for candy—not another canine companion—when she made a fateful stop on her way home one Halloween. But a sign that read “Puppies: $49.99” drew her attention to Boo, a clumsy pup who turned out to have poor eyesight and an uncanny ability to bond with Dog’s best friend. In A Dog Named Boo, Edwards chronicles her life with animals and Boo’s evolution into a therapy dog.
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Titian Rediscovered: PW Talks with Sheila Hale
In the epic biography Titian: His Life, journalist Sheila Hale illuminates the life of both the Renaissance painter and the history of Venice.
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Fleet and Sweet: PW Talks with Zuri Day
In Zuri Day’s Love on the Run, track star Shayna Washington escapes an abusive relationship and then falls head over heels for her new manager, Michael Morgan.
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Prisoners and Race: PW Talks with James Kilgore
James Kilgore’s first crime novel, Prudence Couldn’t Swim, charts the efforts of a white ex-con to find out who killed his black African wife.
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Cookie, Monster: PW Talks with Diana Wagman
Held captive by a seven-foot-long iguana named Cookie.
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Q & A with Jill Abramson and Jane O'Connor
Two publishing luminaries who happen to be sisters – Jill Abramson, executive editor of the New York Times, and Jane O’Connor, v-p and editor at large of Penguin Young Readers Group and author of the Fancy Nancy series – have teamed up to write a picture book, Ready or Not, Here Comes Scout!.
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