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BEA 2014: Thrilling Thriller: Chris Pavone
After finishing his first novel, The Expats, Chris Pavone decided he wanted to place his next thriller, The Accident (Crown, Mar.), in the publishing industry.
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BEA 2014: Calling the Shots: Eula Biss
Five years ago, writer Eula Biss, pregnant for the first time, decided to research the controversial topic of vaccinations.
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BEA 2014: A Family Tragedy Was Her Inspiration: Lisa Howorth
Coming to BEA with her first novel, Flying Shoes (Bloomsbury, June), Square Books co-owner Lisa Howorth is excited to return to the show and see it through an author perspective.
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BEA 2014: The Real MLK: Tavis Smiley
In Tavis Smiley’s personal assessment, Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. is the greatest American this country has ever produced.
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BEA 2014: The Search For Identities in Stories: Michael Coffey
After years of trying to write a memoir, Michael Coffey, the outgoing co-editorial director of Publishers Weekly, realized that fiction was the best way to extend ruminations about what it meant for him to be adopted.
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BEA 2014: Alan Cumming: A Life Revealed
Watching the charismatic actor, Alan Cumming, on the CBS television show, The Good Wife, or PBS’s Masterpiece Mystery, seeing him in films or on the stage, where he’s currently getting raves on Broadway as the emcee in Cabaret, you’d be looking at the picture of success.
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Under the Sicilian Sun: Andrea Camilleri
PW talks with Andrea Camilleri, Italy’s most popular author, 20 years after he introduced his famous hero, Inspector Montalbano, a Sicilian police detective who loves eating, drinking, and wryly observing the world’s injustices.
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A Cowboy in New York: C.J. Box
A man walks into a bar. Cowboy boots. Black cowboy hat. It’s a scene out of a western novel. Only we’re in Greenwich Village at the Cowgirl. And the cowboy is real.
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On the Rez: Jim Northrup
While it seems that everyone else at the Black Bear Casino in rural Carlton County, Minn., has come to play the slots, Jim Northrup and I are meeting there to talk about "Dirty Copper," his forthcoming novel, slated for release in June from Fulcrum Publishing.
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An International Life In Essays and Fiction: Valeria Luiselli
As Valeria Luiselli describes her peripatetic childhood, it’s easy to see why themes of absence and loss pervade her essay collection, "Sidewalks," and her first novel, "Faces in the Crowd," which Coffee House Press will publish simultaneously in May.
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Telling It Like It Is: Roz Chast
Roz Chast is grasping for a word, her hands raised as if to catch it between her palms, as she tries to describe what it felt like to have finished her new book, "Can’t We Talk About Something More Pleasant?" (Bloomsbury, May).
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How the Story Comes Together: Anthony Doerr
Anthony Doerr's second novel, "All the Light We Cannot See," has its origins in an overheard conversation, current events, travel, and an old Sears catalog.
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Summer Blues: Mariko Tamaki and Jillian Tamaki
The "Skim" co-creators release the new YA graphic novel "This One Summer."
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Close Encounters: Barbara Ehrenreich
In her 19th book, "Living with a Wild God: A Nonbeliever’s Search for the Truth About Everything," Barbara Ehrenreich uses her skills as a reporter and researcher to address the concerns of her younger self and investigate the whys of human existence.
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Square Books’ Lisa Howorth’s Fiction Debut
The co-founder of the iconic Square Books in Oxford, Miss., is on the other end of the book now: Bloomsbury is publisher her debut novel in June.
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True Grit: Akhil Sharma
Akhil Sharma’s debut novel, "The Obedient Father" (FSG), published in 2000, won him a PEN/Hemingway Award, a Whiting Writers’ Award, and a reputation as a new voice in fiction.
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All Roads Lead to Rome? Francesca Marciano
Francesca Marciano is living in Rome... for now.
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Southern Comfort: Zoe Fishman
Writing the stories only she can tell is a motivating force for Zoe Fishman. "My books have been, for better or worse, pretty autobiographical," she says. Her third novel, "Driving Lessons," being published by HarperCollins in April is about leaving a big city and moving down south, and she confirms it was definitely taken from her life.
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War Is Hell: Phil Klay
Phil Klay graduated from Dartmouth College, in Hanover, N.H., in 2005.
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Prolific and Profound: Anne Perry
Anne Perry works at her craft 12 hours a day, six days a week (she takes Sundays off), year in and year out.
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