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Freudian Lit: PW Talks with Goce Smilevski
Following in the footsteps of 2006’s Conversation with Spinoza, Macedonian writer Goce Smilevski plucks an individual from history and brings her to life. For Freud’s Sister, Smilevski chose Adolfina Freud, Sigmund’s youngest sister who was killed during the holocaust.
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Mothers and Daughters: PW Talks with Glen Hirshberg
In Glen Hirshberg’s powerful Motherless Child, young mothers Sophie and Natalie are turned into vampires by an ancient creature called the Whistler, and they must send their children into hiding with Natalie’s mother to keep them safe.
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Writing Visually: PW Talks with Todd Grimson
In Todd Grimson’s first collection of short stories, Stabs at Happiness, characters struggle against almost impossible circumstances.
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Cat as Metaphor: PW Talks with Peter Trachtenberg: Pets & Animals 2012
Peter Trachtenberg isn’t exactly drawn to warm and fuzzy topics. His books include The Book of Calamities: Five Questions About Suffering and Its Meaning (Little, Brown, 2008), which earned a starred review in PW and explored anguish, and 7 Tattoos: A Memoir in the Flesh (Crown, 1997), which drew a psychological map by connecting the dots of the author’s skin art. In November, Da Capo will publish his latest, Another Insane Devotion: On the Love of Cats and Persons, in which Trachtenberg intertwines the story of a cat named Biscuit who goes missing and his relationship with his wife, who may also disappear.
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Q & A with Sonia Manzano
Actress and author Sonia Manzano is perhaps best known for her ongoing role as Maria on Sesame Street. But she has also written two picture books and has just published her first YA novel: The Revolution of Evelyn Serrano, about a Puerto Rican girl awakened to political activism in 1969.
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The Broadest of Canvases: PW Talks with Iain M. Banks
Iain M. Banks’s The Hydrogen Sonata explores the background of the far-future Culture, where human, alien, and mechanical sentient beings mingle in a galactic melting pot.
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Latter-Day Sinners: PW Talks with Andrew Hunt
History professor Andrew Hunt won the 2011 Hillerman Prize for his first novel, City of Saints, a whodunit set in 1930 Salt Lake City.
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Q & A with G. Brian Karas
Lemonade in Winter is the latest picture book to feature artwork by G. Brian Karas, who over the course of his three-decade career has illustrated close to 100 books. Karas spoke with PW just before moving from his home in New York's Hudson Valley to a nearby hamlet.
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We Make What We Can Make: PW Talks with Susanna Sonnenberg
In her memoir She Matters: A Life in Friendships, Susanna Sonnenberg reflects upon significant female friendships in her life.
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Y Tu Mama Tambien: PW Talks with Tommy Wieringa
In Tommy Wieringa’s second English-language novel, Little Caesar, a son examines the sexual mores of his mother, a fading porn star making a comeback.
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Character in Letters: PW Talks with Carlene Bauer
Carlene Bauer, whose memoir, Not That Kind of Girl, is about faith and its loss, talks about her debut novel, Frances and Bernard, and how she made fiction out of the lives of writers Flannery O’Connor and Robert Lowell.
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While America Slept: PW Talks with Andrew Rosenheim
An FBI agent goes undercover inside the German-American Bund in Andrew Rosenheim’s Fear Itself, the first in a new historical series.
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Q & A with Ian Falconer
Ian Falconer’s headstrong Olivia may be a piglet, but she is decidedly not pink. Falconer’s new picture book, Olivia and the Fairy Princesses, reveals Olivia's girlhood bête noire (or bête rose, as the case may be). Readers of Olivia Saves the Circus and Olivia and the Missing Toy, and admirers of Falconer's satiric images for the New Yorker and other publications, will detect the sharp wit underlying Olivia’s fairy princess troubles.
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PW Video Series: Debbie Macomber on Her New Novel, 'The Inn at Rose Harbor'
No. 1 bestselling author Debbie Macomber talks to PW about the importance of listening to readers, and why her latest novel, The Inn at Rose Harbor, almost didn't happen.
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Taking on a Giant: PW Talks with Jaime Manrique
In his new novel, Cervantes Street, Jaime Manrique reimagines the life of author Miguel de Cervantes, who lost use of his arm in a duel, fought in the Spanish Navy, and was kidnapped and sold into slavery all before he wrote his masterpiece—Don Quixote.
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Real-Life Drama: PW Talks with Tarun J. Tejpal
In his second novel, The Story of My Assassins, Tarun J. Tejpal takes an unsparing view of India and its teeming underclass.
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Christmas Magic: PW Talks with Victoria Alexander
In Victoria Alexander’s second Christmas-themed historical romance, What Happens at Christmas, twin sisters Camille and Beryl hire actors to play their relatives and create a picture-perfect family Christmas that might entice a foreign prince to propose to Camille.
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Sometimes a Murder Is Just a Murder: PW Talks with Frank Tallis
In Death and the Maiden, psychologist Frank Tallis explores Sigmund Freud’s Vienna.
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Episcopal Bishop Champions Gay Marriage: PW Talks with Gene Robinson
Gene Robinson, Episcopal bishop of New Hampshire, catapulted from obscurity to the center of the culture wars in 2003 when he became the first openly gay bishop in the 77-million-member Anglican Communion. Hundreds of parishes left the Episcopal Church in protest. Now set to retire in January 2013, Robinson has a new book from Knopf, God Believes in Love: Straight Talk about Gay Marriage.
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Little Girls Lost: PW Talks with Michael Robotham
Michael Robotham’s damaged protagonist, psychologist Joe O’Loughlin, hunts for two kidnapped teenage girls in Say You’re Sorry.
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