author interviews

Frances Brody's Dying in the Wool --the first of the Kate Shackleton books --debuts in the US in February 2012. From the author's...

From a Q & A with John Yow, author of The Armchair Birder: Discovering the Secret Lives of Familiar Birds : Q: What is an "armchai...

In Before I Go To Sleep , S. J. Watson's debut psychological thriller, an amnesiac who, following a mysterious accident, cannot remember...

Jonathan Watts is Asia Environment Correspondent for The Guardian and a former president of the Foreign Correspondents' Club of China....

Kathryn Stockett is the author of the novel The Help . From her Q & A with Elizabeth Day at the Observer : You started writing The H...

From Ian Rankin's Q & A with Janette Currie: J:- The Impossible Dead is set in contemporary Scotland with much of the plot lo...

Colin Thubron is an acknowledged master of travel writing. His first books were about the Middle East—Damascus, Lebanon, and Cyprus. In 1...

Public Enemies: Dueling Writers Take on Each Other and the World is a series of letters by Bernard-Henri Lévy and Michel Houellebecq. From...

From Chuck Palahniuk 's Q & A with Euan Ferguson at the Observer : Rather than your usual homeland settings of the Portland/Seattl...

T. J. English 's latest book is The Savage City: Race, Murder, and a Generation on the Edge . From his interview by Randy Dotinga at t...