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The Serious Stuff: Thomas McGuane
Thomas McGuane is the greatest writer of American loneliness we have.
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An American in Venice: Donna Leon
Donna Leon’s novels featuring the thoughtful and erudite Det. Guido Brunetti, of the Venetian police, have topped international bestseller lists and won international awards (including the CWA Silver Dagger).
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A Northern Light in the Literary World: Per Petterson
Interviewing the Norwegian author Per Petterson is like stepping inside one of his books: the conversation swings between the present and the past, his own experiences and those of loved ones.
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Non Stop Adventure: Clive Cussler
At 83, novelist Clive Cussler still scuba dives, in the spirit of his younger and best-known fictional character, marine adventurer Dirk Pitt. So asking Cussler about retiring from writing makes him laugh.
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Intrigue in Postwar Berlin: Joseph Kanon
After seven postwar European thrillers, Edgar Award–winning author Joseph Kanon, whose latest novel is "Leaving Berlin" (Atria, Mar. 3), has firmly established himself as an heir to Graham Greene.
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Writing for Risk Takers: Andrew Smith
For most of his first five decades, Andrew Smith resisted being a published author.
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A New Way to Know God: Doug Pagitt
What if instead of God existing inside us—the traditional teaching—we exist in God? What difference does it make to reconceptualize our relationship to God this way? A new book offers answers.
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Literary Mysteries: Ian Caldwell
In 2004, Ian Caldwell was the bestselling first-time author of "The Rule of Four" (Dial Press, 2004), written with his best friend and coauthor Dustin Thomason.
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In My Own Words: Once More to the Book: Mary Norris
Norris’s "Between You & Me: Confessions of a Comma Queen" is a witty guide to problems with usage, punctuation, and grammar frequently encountered by writers, as well as a memoir of the author’s years as a copy editor at the New Yorker.
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Who Doesn’t Want to Hear a Ghost Story? Kelly Link
Kelly Link's forthcoming collection, 'Get in Trouble,' has already made it onto many of 2015’s most-anticipated lists.
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Unusual Suspect: Matt Burgess
Crime writer Matt Burgess looks set to break out with his second novel, 'Uncle Janis.'
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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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