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These Shining Women: Kate Moore
The author of 'The Radium Girls' talks about how she came across the subject of her book: women who hand-painted luminous watch dials in the early 20th century and suffered gruesome health problems as a result.
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Spotlight on Julia Cameron
Julia Cameron first published "The Artist’s Way: A Spiritual Path to Higher Creativity" in 1992.
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Spotlight on Madeline Hunter
Madeline Hunter, the New York Times–bestselling author of dozens of historical romances, is a virtuoso of the genre.
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Art Among the Ruins: Kristen Radtke
In her new graphic memoir, 'Imagine Wanting Only This,' Radtke explores her preoccupation with human mortality.
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China Miéville Takes On the Russian Revolution
China Miéville’s foray into popular history, 'October: The Story of the Russian Revolution' (Verso, May), is a new telling of the rise of the Bolsheviks, marking the revolution’s centennial this year.
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Spotlight on M. William Phelps
In his new book, the bestselling author examines his unlikely bond with a serial killer.
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Spotlight on Lisa Jackson
With 30 million copies of her novels in print and more than 40 bestsellers to her name—including the smash hit To Die series—Lisa Jackson is a master of taking readers to the edge of sanity and back with her novels of dangerous secrets and deadly passions.
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Transitioning in Life and Literature: Jennifer Finney Boylan
In Jennifer Finney Boylan's new thriller, 'Long Black Veil,' the author takes on the pains and joys of baring secrets.
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How a Garbage Bag Became a Book
Peter Blauner on the origins of 'Proving Ground' (Minotaur, June), his first novel in 11 years.
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A View of South Africa: Ivan Vladislavic
In his novel 'The Exploded View' (Archipelago, Mar.), Ivan Vladislavic confronts the postapartheid era.
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Back on the Farm: Jeff Lemire
The Toronto-based cartoonist has a number of projects publishing this spring, including 'Roughneck' (coming from S&S/Gallery 13) and 'Black Hammer' (published by Dark Horse Comics).
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Woman on the Edge: PW Talks to Philippe Djian
Philippe Djian’s novel Elle, which Other Press will release in English translation in late May, was much discussed even before the film version garnered Isabelle Huppert an Oscar nomination earlier this year.
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Spotlight on John Gilstrap
Final Target, John Gilstrap’s 10th thriller about hostage rescue specialist Jonathan Grave, and the first to be published in both hardcover and mass market paperback, is a breakneck adventure.
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1 Novel, 2 Whales, 12 Bullet Holes: Hannah Tinti
In her second novel, 'The Twelve Lives of Samuel Hawley' (Dial, April), Tinti follows a career criminal and channels 'Moby-Dick.'
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A Restaurant in London’s Soho: PW talks with Clare Lattin and Tom Hill
With their first cookbook, Ducksoup, the owners of the restaurant of the same name celebrate simple cooking.
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Melissa Clark: Dinner is Served
With her latest cookbook, 'Dinner,' Melissa Clark expects us all to get into the kitchen.
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Spotlight on Judy Reene Singer
Meet Judy Reene Singer, a passionate activist for animal rights in life and fiction, who turns her considerable powers on another group of overlooked trauma survivors: WWII veterans and their families in her new novel. (Sponsored)
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The School Shooting in Sweden You Never Read About Until Now: PW Talks to Malin Persson Giolito
Malin Persson Giolito’s English language debut, Quicksand, is the story of an 18-year-old girl accused in a horrific school shooting.
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Spotlight on Karma Brown
The dramatic event at the center of Karma Brown’s riveting third novel, In This Moment, is one of those terrifying accidents that could befall any of us—the kind of everyday tragedy that’s always at the periphery of our worries.
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Elif Batuman and the Fiction of Everyday Life
Batuman talks about writing 'The Idiot' (Penguin Press, Mar.), her first novel.
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