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Wall Street Wrongdoing: PW Talks with Michael Sears
A foreign currency trader, freshly out of jail, investigates potential financial misdeeds—along with a suspicious death—in Michael Sears’s first novel, Black Fridays.
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The Triumph of Good: PW Talks with Dean Koontz
Known for his bestselling suspense thrillers, Dean Koontz has incorporated elements of science fiction, horror, and fantasy into his books, along with spiritual grounding. When Koontz writes about the battle between good and evil, he speaks from experience. He endured a frightening childhood with a violent alcoholic father, but found happiness and stability in his long-term marriage. He also converted to Catholicism, and though he later went through a period of questioning that faith, he has returned to it.
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Reclaiming the Vagina: PW Talks with Naomi Wolf
Inspired by her own experience with an injured pelvic nerve, noted feminist author Naomi Wolf (The Beauty Myth) explores the science of female sexuality in her intimate and provocative latest, Vagina: A New Biography.
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More Baths Less Talking: PW Talks with Nick Hornby
In More Baths, Less Talking: Notes from the Reading Life of a Celebrated Author Locked in Battle with Football, Family and Time Itself, Nick Hornby shares his “Stuff I’ve Been Reading” columns.
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Q & A with Kate and M. Sarah Klise
Sisters Kate and M. Sarah Klise, who have collaborated on 18 books, talk about their most recent picture book and why their sister act is still going strong.
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Recipes from Veggiestan: PW Talks with Sally Butcher
In her book, The New Middle Eastern Vegetarian, Sally Butcher, owner of a Middle Eastern food store in London, Persepolis, shares recipes she’s gathered along her travels.
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The Foundation of Environmentalism: PW Talks with William Souder
William Souder’s new biography, On A Farther Shore: The Life and Legacy of Rachel Carson, offers a nuanced study of the environmentalist on the 50th anniversary of Silent Spring.
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Achilles' Arrow: PW Talks with T. Geronimo Johnson
In Hold It ’Til It Hurts, the debut novel from New Orleans native T. Geronimo Johnson, a 22-year-old black man named Achilles Conroy tries to make sense of his life after serving two rugged tours in Afghanistan.
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The Dog Who Did Something in the Nighttime: PW Talks with Spencer Quinn
Under his Spencer Quinn pseudonym, thriller author Peter Abrahams has written his fifth whodunit featuring Chet the dog and PI Bernie Little, A Fistful of Collars.
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Write What We Fear: PW Talks with Carla Norton
In Carla Norton’s debut novel, The Edge of Normal, Reeve LeClaire, who was kidnapped and held captive for four years, counsels another kidnap victim.
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The Next Adventure: PW Talks with Peter Heller
Adventure writer Peter Heller, who has surfed in Mexico, kayaked the Tsangpo River gorge in Tibet, and sailed an eco-pirate vessel, has a first novel, The Dog Stars, about the end of the world.
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The Information Mage: PW Talks with Benedict Jacka
Benedict Jacka's 'Fated,' 'Cursed,' and 'Taken' set up a maze of political intrigue and magical mayhem for Alex Verus, a London mage with the gift of seeing all possible futures.
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Jefferson's Tainted Profits: PW Talks with Henry Wiencek
In Master of the Mountain, Henry Wiencek presents startling evidence that Thomas Jefferson was bullish on slavery.
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Secularism Includes Liberty of Conscience: PW Talks with Jacques Berlinerblau
Jacques Berlinerblau’s new book, How to Be Secular: A Call to Arms for Religious Freedom, is both a scholarly look at the political theory of secularism and a rallying cry for reasonable-minded people to coalesce against extremists. Berlinerblau directs the Program for Jewish Civilization at Georgetown University.
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Spring 2012 Flying Starts: Debut Children's and YA Authors
Profiles of five new authors making a splash this season.
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A Game Warden on the Upper Peninsula: PW Talks with Joseph Heywood
Joseph Heywood, the author of the Grady Service series (Force of Blood, etc.), set on Michigan’s Upper Peninsula, tries his hand at a historical mystery, Red Jacket.
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Shine a Little Light: PW Talks with M.L. Stedman
M.L. Stedman’s debut novel, The Light Between Oceans, puts a young couple on a remote island off the coast of Australia after WWI and tests the limits of motherhood.
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French Hearts and Minds: PW Talks with Marilyn Yalom
In How the French Invented Love: Nine Hundred Years of Passion and Romance, scholar Marilyn Yalom analyzes matters of the heart in French literature from the 17th to the 21st century.
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Reaching Out to the Other: PW Talks with Kij Johnson
Kij Johnson’s collection At the Mouth of the River of Bees brings her trademark thoughtful, unsettling touch to a wide variety of speculative genres and unusual topics, from ethereal fantasy to hard SF.
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Starting from Behind: PW Talks with Jonathan Kozol
In Fire in the Ashes: Twenty-Five Years Among the Poorest Children in America, Jonathan Kozol traces disadvantaged kids’ struggles as they make their way into adulthood.
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