Interviews with Book Authors en-us http://www.publishersweekly.com/community/Author+Interviews/47155.html?nid=3332 2008 Reed Business Information. Subject to its Terms of Use. Fri, 25 Jul 2008 06:27:40 MST http://www.publishersweekly.com/article/CA6576291.html?nid=3332 Daryl Gregory blends psychology and demonology in his dark fantasy debut, Pandemonium (Reviews, July 7). Tue, 08 Jul 2008 11:00:00 MST http://www.publishersweekly.com/article/CA6575446.html?nid=3332 In Downtown Owl, the pop-culture critic and Esquire columnist tries his hand at fiction by examining a small town in North Dakota (Reviews, May 5). You've published only nonfiction thus far. Why fiction now? Nonfiction is reactive. You respond to what others have done or said. With my novel, I wanted to write a reality that I could create. Mon, 07 Jul 2008 00:00:00 MST http://www.publishersweekly.com/article/CA6575443.html?nid=3332 Annie Proulx's new book, Fine Just the Way It Is (Scribner, Sept.), is the third collection in the Wyoming Stories, “the last,” Proulx says emphatically. And when Annie Proulx says it, you believe her. She wants to write about something else, she says. “I like to keep moving... shake things up. Mon, 07 Jul 2008 00:00:00 MST http://www.publishersweekly.com/article/CA6574313.html?nid=3332 In Dominant Animal (out today from Island Press), ecologists Paul and Anne Ehrlich, who authored the highly influential The Population Bomb forty years ago, recalibrate their vision and find that, despite some progress (heading off some of their more dire 1968 predictions), our species is still overshooting the capacity of the planet to sustain itself, and must change our ways. Mon, 30 Jun 2008 11:00:00 MST http://www.publishersweekly.com/article/CA6573162.html?nid=3332 Prolific mystery writer Lawrence Blocks talks to PW about his latest series starring Keller, the laconic, stamp-collecting hitman on the brink of retirement. William Morrow will publish Hit and Run on June 24, which is also Block’s 70th birthday. Wed, 25 Jun 2008 11:00:00 MST http://www.publishersweekly.com/article/CA6571857.html?nid=3332 After nearly four decades of marriage, Anne Roiphe's husband collapsed from a fatal heart attack in the lobby of their apartment building. In her new memoir, Epilogue (Reviews, June 6), she puts to the test the old saying, “Time is the widow's friend,” as she begins rebuilding her life. Tell me about the significance of the moon in the book. Mon, 23 Jun 2008 00:00:00 MST http://www.publishersweekly.com/article/CA6571856.html?nid=3332 Irina Reyn's debut novel, What Happened to Anna K. (Reviews, June 2), transports Anna Karenina to Queens, N.Y., where she struggles with familiar issues of identity, social rules, gender and loyalty a century later and a continent away. Where did you get the idea to reimagine Anna Karenina? I took a course on the book in graduate school, so I read it over and over again for several months. Mon, 23 Jun 2008 00:00:00 MST http://www.publishersweekly.com/article/CA6571855.html?nid=3332 The second thriller from former Cosmopolitan (U.K.) editor-in-chief Sam Baker starring fashion journalist Annie Anderson, Deadly Beautiful (Reviews, June 9), takes a hard look at the too often brief careers of teen models, one of whom, Scarlett Ulrich, may be the victim of a serial killer in Japan. What can you tell us about Scarlett Ulrich? The thing about Scarlett Ulrich, who becomes a child model s... Mon, 23 Jun 2008 00:00:00 MST http://www.publishersweekly.com/article/CA6571854.html?nid=3332 Sarah Prineas has a young reader of the children's magazine Cricket to thank for the impetus that led to her very splashy debut—a three-book contract, two starred reviews for the first volume, and 13 foreign rights sales. Prineas had written only three lines of a story—A thief is a lot like a wizard. Mon, 23 Jun 2008 00:00:00 MST http://www.publishersweekly.com/article/CA6570187.html?nid=3332 Kira Salak made her name as a chronicler of her daring adventures in the remotest corners of the globe. In The White Mary (Reviews, May 12), she gives us Marika Vecera, an explorer who ventures into the jungles of Papua New Guinea and confronts the perils hidden within her own heart. After so much success with nonfiction, what inspired you to turn to fiction? While I love writing nonfiction, I'... Mon, 16 Jun 2008 00:00:00 MST http://www.publishersweekly.com/article/CA6570186.html?nid=3332 James Wood, 42, is from the U.K. He's tall, walks fast, drives a white Mini Cooper, speaks eloquently and enjoys a nicely tended garden. It's after lunch, and he's walking (quickly) down Brattle Street in Cambridge, Mass., when he spots two kids playing on the immaculate front lawn of a stately house. Mon, 16 Jun 2008 00:00:00 MST http://www.publishersweekly.com/article/CA6567700.html?nid=3332 Simon Baatz explores the role psychiatry played in the legendary 1924 Leopold and Loeb case, in For the Thrill of It (Reviews, June 2). You first became interested in the case after watching Hitchcock's Rope. What grabbed your attention? When I discovered that [the film] was based on a real case, I looked back to see what else had been written, and it turned out that very little had. Mon, 09 Jun 2008 00:00:00 MST http://www.publishersweekly.com/article/CA6567699.html?nid=3332 Novelist Elizabeth Subercaseaux was born in Chile and worked as a journalist during the Pinochet dictatorship. She left Chile in 1990 and married an American academic. She now lives near Philadelphia, though she still writes a column for La Nación in Santiago, covering American politics. A Week in October is her first novel to be translated into English. Mon, 09 Jun 2008 00:00:00 MST http://www.publishersweekly.com/article/CA6567698.html?nid=3332 Richard Kallman has worked at Bookazine, the independent wholesaler started by his grandfather and great uncle, since he was 17. “I graduated high school on a Thursday and started working on Friday,” says Kallman, who just turned 40. Jokingly referring to his on-the-job training as the “University of Bookazine,” he says, “I did everything, from working on the loadi... Mon, 09 Jun 2008 00:00:00 MST http://www.publishersweekly.com/article/CA6567697.html?nid=3332 It takes discipline,” bestselling crime writer Kathy Reichs says. “Any time that I'm not at my lab or testifying or traveling, I write all day.” Reichs, 57, embodies the age-old adage of writing what you know: she is a board-certified forensic anthropologist who divides her time between working for the state Office of the Chief Medical Examiner in North Carolina and the Labora... Mon, 09 Jun 2008 00:00:00 MST http://www.publishersweekly.com/article/CA6567973.html?nid=3332 Out-Takes from A Marriage takes a look at our celebrity culture. Fri, 06 Jun 2008 10:54:00 MST http://www.publishersweekly.com/article/CA6565485.html?nid=3332 In Edgar-finalist Michael Koryta's Envy the Night (p. 28), a stand-alone thriller, Frank Temple III struggles to come to terms with the violent legacy of his father, a government agent turned gun for hire. What made you decide to write a stand-alone after three Lincoln Perry books? I certainly wasn't burned out on Lincoln as a character, but I did feel a sense of fatigue over the consistency of... Mon, 02 Jun 2008 00:00:00 MST http://www.publishersweekly.com/article/CA6561942.html?nid=3332 Martina Cole, the #1 bestselling author of adult fiction in the U.K., makes her U.S. debut with Close(Reviews, May 5), a saga about one underworld London family over a period of 40 years. What's the significance of your title, Close? England is so small—it's a small island, isn't it? And people tend to live very close to each other. Mon, 19 May 2008 00:00:00 MST http://www.publishersweekly.com/article/CA6560384.html?nid=3332 The Host by Stephenie Meyer (Reviews, Mar. 31), author of the bestselling Twilight YA series (Twilight, the film, is now in production, slated for a Dec. release), features a love triangle in two bodies. Melanie, a rebel human, is the reluctant host “soul” for Wanderer, an extraterrestrial whose race has successfully invaded a near-future earth. Both struggle with their feelings for Jared, Melanie’s human boyfriend. Tue, 13 May 2008 11:00:00 MST http://www.publishersweekly.com/article/CA6559359.html?nid=3332 In Beyond Tolerance, a former New York Times religion reporter argues for deeper interfaith understanding (review, p. 49). Can you explain what you mean by the title Beyond Tolerance? I am critical of the way the word “tolerance” is used. It's an extremely elastic word that can signify almost anything short of committing violence. Mon, 12 May 2008 00:00:00 MST