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From Comics Theory to Comics Practice: Scott McCloud
Scott McCloud didn’t intend to become the premier comics theorist, but his acclaimed trilogy that began with 'Understanding Comics,' forced a reexamination of the medium. In February, McCloud is publishing 'The Sculptor" (First Second), his first work of fiction in over 15 years.
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First Fiction Spring 2015: Matt Sumell: Mining the Personal for the Good, the Bad, and the Ugly
Matt Sumell didn’t set out to be a writer.
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First Fiction Spring 2015: Robert Repino: A Cross-Species Conflict in a Cross-Genre Debut
Repino’s Mort(e), a literary science fiction novel about a war between humans and animals, began as a dream.
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First Fiction Spring 2015: Viet Thanh Nguyen: A Subversive Debut Adds a New Facet to an Old Story
The conflict in Vietnam has given rise to countless books and movies dealing with American experiences of the war.
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First Fiction Spring 2015: Ben Metcalf: An Experimental Cri de Coeur 10 Years in the Making
Metcalf is the former literary editor of Harper’s and an essayist with bylines in that magazine as well in the Baffler and other publications. But he spent “the better part of a decade” working on a novel called Against the Country.
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First Fiction Spring 2015: Paula Hawkins: A Debut Thriller Writer on the Express Track
The “train novel” would seem to belong to the literary past, but does the once-new mode of transport still have a place in today’s fiction?
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First Fiction Spring 2015: Sarah Gerard: The Language of the Stars Is Also the Language of Love
The trope of damaged lovebirds trekking across the United States appears everywhere from Lolita to Oliver Stone’s Natural Born Killers. So, how does a contemporary author breathe new life into such a classic conceit?
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First Fiction Spring 2015: Angela Flournoy: Summoning the Ghosts of Detroit
When Flournoy visited her grandmother’s house in Detroit in 2009, she was reminded of a wake.
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First Fiction Spring 2015: Jill Alexander Essbaum: Exploring the Dilemma of Domesticity
Poet Essbaum set her debut novel, Hausfrau, in suburban Zurich, but it was on the road between Houston and Austin, where she lives, that she was hit with the aha moment that started her writing a novel.
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First Fiction Spring 2015: Rebecca Dinerstein: Finding Inspiration at the Top of the World
In 2009, on a poetry fellowship from Yale, the newly graduated Dinerstein traveled to Norway, settling in an art colony in Lofoten, an archipelago in the Arctic.
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First Fiction Spring 2015: Anticipated Debuts
9 fiction debuts to watch.
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Imagining the Worst: Tim Johnston
Tim Johnston’s literary thriller "Descent," coming this month from Algonquin, is a mystery about a girl who vanishes in the Colorado Rockies.
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For Love of the West: S.M. Hulse
Wes Carver, the protagonist of "Black River," the debut novel by S.M. Hulse, is a stoic former corrections officer who was tortured and maimed during a prison riot, in the fictional town of Black River, Mont., in 1992.
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PW's Top Authors Pick Their Favorite Books of 2014
For the second year running, we’ve asked the authors of PW’s Top 10 Books of 2014 (announced in our November 3 issue) to each share a favorite title published this year.
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Imagining Fitzgerald: Stewart O’Nan
Stewart O’Nan’s 15th novel, "West of Sunset," due out from Viking in January 2015, imagines F. Scott Fitzgerald’s final years in Hollywood writing screenplays for MGM to support his family.
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War Stories: Frances Itani
Frances Itani has been been touring Canada for the past two months in support of her new novel, "Tell."
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A Whole Lot of Talkin’ Goin' On: Rick Bragg
Pulitzer Prize winning journalist and author Rick Bragg is no stranger to unearthing the heart of a story, as he proved in his own best-selling memoir "All Over But The Shoutin’."
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Coming to Hollywood: Anjelica Huston
In 'Watch Me,' Anjelica Huston boldly recounts her heartaches, struggles, joys, and accomplishments over the past 40 years.
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A Canon For Kids: Russ Kick
“Comics can play all kinds of roles: education, art for art's sake, social commentary, pure entertainment, raunchy porn,” Russ Kick explains.
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A Literary Maiden Voyage: Herbie Hancock
During a career that spans seven astonishing decades, the Chicago-born, Los Angeles-based, Grammy- and Oscar-winning pianist and composer Herbie Hancock has gone where no jazz musician had gone before.
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