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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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First Fiction Fall 2014: Anticipated Debuts
Small, independent literary publishers are the champions of this fall’s crop of debut fiction writers.
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Science Fiction & Fantasy 2014: The “Wonderful but Strange” New World of Ann Leckie
In 2012, Ann Leckie, who had by that time published several short stories yet remained relatively unknown to many readers, was putting the finishing touches on her debut novel, "Ancillary Justice."
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First Fiction Fall 2014: Mette Ivie Harrison: Outlining Takes the Fun Out of Writing
Most murder mysteries are carefully plotted, but Mette Ivie Harrison didn’t know who the murderer was when she started writing her first adult novel.
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First Fiction Fall 2014: Scholastique Mukasonga: Falling in Love on The Way Home from Frankfurt
Jill Schoolman, the publisher of the 10-year-old, translation-focused small press Archipelago Books, is perhaps best known for introducing the American reading public to Karl Ove Knausgaard.
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First Fiction Fall 2014: Casey Walker: From 125,000 Words to 85,000, to 65,000
Casey Walker started "The Last Days in Shanghai" (Dec.) in 2007, after a trip to China.
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First Fiction Fall 2014: Nell Zink: Discovered by Franzen
Nell Zink describes herself as a secret writer, too shy to pen even a coherent query letter, and she says that after finishing "The Wallcreeper" (Oct.) in about a year, she “forgot all about it, because I was doing other stuff.”
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First Fiction Fall 2014: Alix Christie: Debut Novelist Tackles the Debut Of Printing
Alix Christie was 10 years old when she wrote her first novel. It was about horses.
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First Fiction Fall 2014: Eimear McBride: A True Original
Eimear McBride’s "A Girl Is a Half-Formed Thing" (Sept.), written in a distinctive, fragmented prose style, has become a cult literary sensation.
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Where Stuart Stops, Stone Begins: Stuart Woods
Stuart Woods’s sitting room in his Park Avenue pied-à-terre is dark and book lined. He writes there, facing the computer in a corner.
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