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Well before we met, I felt as if I knew Karen Thompson Walker. Though this wasn't true, it didn't seem entirely delusional: Portland, Ore., is a small town; we have [...]

The 18th annual Hay Festival in rural Wales looked like a cross between an upscale country wedding and an unusually clean county fair. Sheep grazed on the hills overlooking a [...]

Annette Gordon-Reed is the author of Thomas Jefferson and Sally Hemings: An American Controversy (Univ. Press of Virginia, 1997). She spoke with PW about her latest book, Vernon Can Read! [...]

'Of course the story of my life is how I left my mother,' Tom Spanbauer says. He's sitting in the dining room of his comfortable 1907 Sears and Roebuck kit [...]

How do you get a 300-pound boar back into his pen? Can chickens be herded like sheep? Where would you find the answers to these questions--in some rural miscellany, a [...]

'YOUR HANDS ARE FREEZING!' Naomi Wolf exclaims, immediately after 'Hello.' In the foyer of her parents' apartment on lower Fifth Avenue in Manhattan, the feminist and social critic best known [...]

Would you consider Floodmarkers to be a novel or a collection? It's both, I guess. I once heard Denis Johnson say about Jesus' Son, and I'm paraphrasing here, that he [...]

When Amy Hempel asks the host at Island, a mostly empty Madison Avenue bistro, for his quietest table, he shrugs and flings his arm out: here, his gesture says, every [...]

PW: In The God of Driving [reviewed on p. 46], you list several reasons for deciding to finally conquer your lifelong fear of driving. What was your biggest motivation? Amy [...]

PW: Red Dress Ink aims to publish 'unique and irreverent stories that reflect the lifestyles of today's single women,' but last year the house acquired a book called Girl Boy [...]

PW: You've published two of Richard Flanagan's earlier books, but what made you decide to do Gould's Book of Fish in such an original--and expensive--format? ME: I think Richard's one [...]

PW: Your book Revenge: A Story of Hope (see review, this page) chronicles the year you spent looking for the Palestinian terrorist who shot and wounded your father in 1986; [...]

PW: Thinking Like Your Editor (see review, p. 76) discusses almost everything a would-be author should consider, from proposal-writing and argument-shaping to jacket design and book reviews, and it obviously [...]