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Growing up, Amber Chen was an avid sci-fi/fantasy reader. Tamora Pierce's Song of the Lioness series is still one of her all-time favorites, and she sees echoes of its heroine [...]

Despite his success--bestselling books, awards, film adaptations, critical acclaim--Richard Price, who typically works seven days a week, admits he doesn't enjoy writing all that much. 'If someone could give me [...]

After decades of acquiring novels as an editor, Edwin Frank has finally written a book about the novel: his nonfiction debut examines that most dominant of literary forms in its [...]

In Jim Wilson's memoir, Tuned In: Memoirs of a Piano Man, he writes about his career as a piano technician and his pathway to becoming a professional pianist. Wilson spoke [...]

Like most authors, Susan Minot is no stranger to writing about love, sex, and relationships. But for her latest novel, she wanted to take an erotic love story into somewhat [...]

Though Danzy Senna isn't waiting for her Hollywood moment, she has been marking time until she felt ready to write a novel about her adopted hometown.'I've been wanting to write [...]

Rhys Bowen lives in a cozy house with her husband of 57 years on a hill in Marin County, north of San Francisco, a place with views of Mt. Tamalpais [...]

When you listen to Arthur Crudup's 'That's All Right, Mama' or Junior Parker's 'Mystery Train,' what do you hear that shaped Elvis's hit versions? With Crudup it's the emotional power [...]

What inspired Good Girl? Is it autobiographical? I was a party girl, and I always wanted to write about a character who inhabits this dialectical tension between self-destruction and self-fulfillment. [...]

Lou Berney is the Edgar Award-winning author of five crime novels, all from William Morrow/HarperCollins, the latest of which, Double Barrel Bluff, will be published in November 2024. His short [...]

What prompted you to write this book? This was a pandemic project. Covid took hold in Singapore in early April 2020, and just like everyone else I was freaking out. [...]

We Lived on the Horizon covers vast thematic territory: AI, capitalism, medicine, motherhood. Did you intend to take on so much? It expanded by necessity as I was writing. I [...]

BookLife described Gaiter's latest work, A Memory of Fictions: (or) Just Tiddy-Boom, which received an Editor's Pick, as 'an uncompromising, incisive story of the will to create, told with rich [...]

Actor Bolger's debut, Stoop to Conquer, received an Editor's Pick, with BookLife praising the author for his 'ability to blend poignant moments with gritty realism,' adding that protagonist Doonan's journey [...]

In Sears's Love the Stranger (Soho Crime, Dec.; reviewed on p. 33), Ted Molloy tries to clear his girlfriend's name after she lands in the crosshairs of a shady real [...]

In Past Tense (Avery, Oct.; reviewed on p. 41), Mardou depicts how she unlocked years of personal and familial trauma through therapy. Did you draw the book while you were [...]

In her graphic narrative debut, Uprooted: A Memoir About What Happens When Your Family Moves Back (Roaring Brook, Sept.), author-illustrator Ruth Chan (Have You Seen Gordon?) recounts her family's move [...]

Cheryl Willis Hudson is the cofounder and editorial director of Just Us Books, which she launched in 1988 with her husband, Wade Hudson, to uplift Black history and culture. She [...]

Vogue culture writer Emma Specter describes her struggles with binge eating and yo-yo dieting, and how she made peace with her body, in her memoir More, Please (Harper, July). PW [...]

For centuries, creatures of the night have proven mostly unkillable in popular fiction, adapting to changing tastes with the ease of practiced chameleons. Next summer, Daniel Hornsby (Via Negativa) will [...]

De Kerangal explores memory, voice, and human connection in the story collection Canoes (Archipelago, Oct.; reviewed on this page). Canoes are one of many motifs that appear in all of [...]

Leavitt channels her grief over her partner's medically assisted suicide into diary comics in Something, Not Nothing (Arsenal Pulp, Sept., reviewed on p. 51). What role did journaling play in [...]

In Overshoot (Verso, Oct.; reviewed on p. 57), climate scholars Malm and Carton argue that a dangerously untested faith in carbon capture has taken hold of climate policy. What inspired [...]

What inspired Ichorite, the mysterious metal that powers this world? Ichorite comes from my anxiety that fossil fuels are like corpses, a very literal dinosaur body. Imagine plastic and oil [...]

In Layden's Once More from the Top (Mariner, Sept.; reviewed on p. 37), a pop star is blindsided by the discovery of her high school best friend's corpse. What inspired [...]

Nature plays so many different roles in the book--terrifying, healing, disorienting. How did you go about conveying parallels between nature and new motherhood? It occurred to me after about a [...]

In Category Five (Little, Brown, Sept.; reviewed on p. 166), Nowhere magazine editor Fox explains how climate change is making storms more intense. How did you balance climate science and [...]

The murder of a trans teen reveals the dark, vampiric underbelly of a quaint beach town in Piper's All the Hearts Yo u Eat (Titan, Oct.; reviewed on this page). [...]

The novel pulls from two historical sources: the women living and working in Bethany Home for Unwed Mothers, and the murders committed by socialite Harry Hayward. What led you to [...]

Cloonan: You orchestrated all the dream sequences, though. It was like we each had a department. I never have been so in sync with another creator. Lotay: It's kind of [...]

Banned Book Club, a fictionalized account of Hyun Sook Kim's experiences growing up in South Korea and becoming radicalized after forming a club to read forbidden literature, rendered as a [...]

The book begins with a story about how you found a couple of gray hairs in your eyebrows. How did this discovery lead you to the understanding that a lot [...]

PW talks with Kendra Adachi Women don't have to be productive 24/7--and they don't have to sweat about tomorrow, next year, or eternity. They don't have to be great. They [...]

Author Jillian Dodd has proved that perseverance and savoring the process are key to success. To date, she has written 50 books, including seven series and one standalone title. Dodd [...]

If you're getting close to finishing a book, you might find yourself wondering what readers are really going to think of it. Although market research is important for ensuring that [...]

In Book Nooks (Chronicle, Sept.), design director Vanessa Dina and food and lifestyle associate editor Claire Gilhuly, both with Chronicle Books, share functional and aesthetic ideas for displaying books at [...]

With loyal audiences and archives of material, narrative series released as podcasts and on social media platforms are ripe for graphic novel adaptation. This trend has spawned titles such as [...]

You open up so vulnerably in this book about living with Bruck syndrome. What made you decide to dive into that? I think it is a personality trait: you're either [...]

You discuss restoring the garden at your Suffolk home. How did that experience inform your research? I worked on the garden for two years and kept a garden diary. I [...]

Manga sales have boomed in North America the past several years, but there's one readership that has been left out of the party: children. Manga for readers 12 and under [...]

When did you begin looking into bankruptcy? I fell in love with bankruptcy in law school; my first job was at a bankruptcy court in Chicago. I believed it was [...]

Bendheim didn't intend to write a memoir, but the finished product, a BookLife Reviews Editor's Pick, turned out to be a 'heart-wrenching collection of poems' that relates 'the uplifting story [...]

In Emet North's In Universes (Harper, Apr.), which PW's starred review called a 'crackling chronicle of queer love,' a scientist named Raffi crosses the multiverse in search of a world [...]

[Q&A] PW TALKS WITH DEBORAH PAREDEZ In American Diva (Norton, May; reviewed on this page), Paredez explores the mixed reception given to larger-than-life female performers. Messy and Marvelous Your book [...]

[Q&A] PW TALKS WITH ELIZABETH O'CONNOR The Heart of the Seas In O'Connor's debut, Whale Fall (June, Pantheon; reviewed on p. 32), a small island community off the coast of [...]

In 1960 New York City, a curmudgeonly reporter falls for the shortstop he's been assigned to cover in Sebastian's You Should Be So Lucky (Avon, May; reviewed on p. 44). [...]

In William Durbin and Barbara Durbin's suspenseful YA novel The Hidden Room, a Ukrainian Jewish family struggles to survive the final year of World War II. Although William has published [...]

In 2017, fantasy author Alexandra Rowland posted a message on Tumblr: 'The opposite of grimdark is hopepunk. Pass it on.' Obligingly, the internet did just that, describing everything from The [...]

As the author of the ground-breaking The Courage to Heal-a guide to recovery from sexual abuse--and six other nonfiction books, Laura Davis has helped more than two million readers navigate [...]

In what BookLife Reviews called 'a must-read for dog lovers,' Hughes explores the highs and lows of adopting an animal with behavior problems. Though not planning to adopt, 'something' persuaded [...]