Still Thirsty: PW Talks With Tom Acitelli

Acitelli knows beer. A regular contributor to All About Beer magazine, his first book, The Audacity of Hops, is the definitive study of the remarkable evolution of America’s craft beer industry.

Like a Phoenix: PW Talks with Mary Kay Andrews

Mysteries from the Slush Pile: PW Talks with Barbara Rogan

New York literary agent Jo Donovan reluctantly becomes a muse for a deranged writer who won’t take no for an answer in Barbara Rogan’s debut mystery, A Dangerous Fiction.

Voices of Dissent: PW Talks with Karima Bennoune

Human-rights lawyer, activist, and U.C. Davis professor Karima Bennoune channels the diverse artists and human-rights workers resisting extremism in Muslim-majority countries in Your Fatwa Does Not Apply Here.

Circuitous About Sex: PW Talks with Ashley Cardiff

In her memoir, Night Terrors: Sex, Dating, Puberty, and Other Alarming Things, Ashley Cardiff dishes on sexuality and growing up in an age of anxiety.

A Better Day: PW Talks with Taylor Jenkins Reid

In Forever, Interrupted, nine days after Elsie and Ben elope, he dies in a car accident. Debut author Taylor Jenkins Reid skillfully traces the couple’s six-month courtship throughout the book.

Organic Food Nation: PW Talks with Forrest Pritchard

In Gaining Ground, Forrest Pritchard recounts his against-all-odds story of taking his struggling family livestock farm into the growing organic farmers’ market movement in ways that will make you reconsider how and where you purchase your food.

Shooting the Sh*t: PW Talks With David Waltner-Toews

Veterinarian and epidemiologist Waltner-Toews’s The Origin of Feces is a comprehensive look at the social and ecological history of excrement, and global problems we face today.

Q & A with Cecil Castellucci and Sara Varon

PW spoke with illustrator Sara Varon and writer Castellucci to hear about how two self-proclaimed odd ducks combined forces to create Odd Duck, an unconventional – and very funny – book.

Conspiring with the Enemy: PW Talks With Arturo Fontaine