Sex, Lies, and Virtual Reality: PW Talks with Michael Olson
Strange Flesh, the first novel from former software designer Michael Olson, is a thought-provoking, near-future thriller about the intersection of computer technology, online gaming, and human sexuality. more...
Profiles
02/03/2012 @ 07:00PM
Imagine, for a moment, that lutefisk had the zip of gumbo, and Norwegian folk songs had the verve of zydeco. Were that the case, Minot, N.D., might have had a marketing advantage over New Orleans, and the buzz phrase for partying would be la de gode tider rull instead of laissez les bons temps rouler.
Interviews
02/03/2012 @ 07:00PM
Strange Flesh, the first novel from former software designer Michael Olson, is a thought-provoking, near-future thriller about the intersection of computer technology, online gaming, and human sexuality.
Interviews
01/27/2012 @ 07:00PM
Kiernan has established herself as an author of compelling, sometimes brutal, dark fantasy. Her latest novel, The Drowning Girl: A Memoir (Reviews, Jan. 16), about a schizophrenic young woman obsessed with a painting, is a chillingly effective mix of psychological thriller and ghost story.
Interviews
01/27/2012 @ 07:00PM
In Karen Thompson Walker’s debut novel, The Age of Miracles (Reviews, this issue, p. 30; pub date, June), an 11-year-old girl wakes up one morning to the news that the earth’s rotation is slowing.
Profiles
01/27/2012 @ 07:00AM
Olen Steinhauer can thank James Joyce and an exchange program as an undergraduate in Eastern Europe for his writing aspirations. “I was living in a garret in Zagreb in 1989, reading Joyce for the first time,” he says over lunch at a French cafe in Carmel, Calif. “A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man completely floored me.”
Profiles
01/20/2012 @ 07:00PM
Ron Carlson, author of six short story collections and five novels, including Five Skies (Viking, 2007) and The Signal (Viking, 2009), has gathered 30 years' worth of his poems in the forthcoming Room Service: Poems, Meditations, Outcries & Remarks (Red Hen Press, Mar.), about which he says, "Poems are necessary. By that, I mean to say there is no way I could not have written these things. I love words, don't you?"
Interviews
01/20/2012 @ 07:00PM
Waiting for Sunrise (Reviews, Jan. 16; pub month, Apr.) combines suspense with an unusual romance as William Boyd again explores the effects of war on ordinary lives.
Interviews
01/20/2012 @ 07:00PM
The beginnings of the New York City Police Department in 1845 are at the heart of Lyndsay Faye’s series debut, The Gods of Gotham (Reviews, Jan. 16; pub date, Mar.).
Profiles
01/13/2012 @ 07:00PM
Saran’s first cookbook, Indian Home Cooking (Clarkson Potter, 2004), focused on home-style Indian recipes, and his second, American Masala (Clarkson Potter, 2007), livened up American favorites with Indian flavors. In his third and newest book, with Raquel Pelzel and Charlie Burd, Masala Farm: Stories and Recipes from an Uncommon Life in the Country (Chronicle, Jan.)—named after the 67-acre farm Saran and his partner, Charlie Burd, now own, live on, and care for in upstate New York—Saran “bares his heart and soul.”
Interviews
01/13/2012 @ 07:00PM
Owen Laukkanen, poker journalist–turned–thriller writer, makes his fiction debut with The Professionals.
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