PW Talks with Michael Showalter: Focus on Audio 2012
Comedian, actor, director, and writer Michael Showalter is probably best known for the 2001 film Wet Hot American Summer; the comedy troupe, Stella; and the MTV show The State. But he’s also written a memoir and recorded its audiobook, and this year he will host the Audies Gala. more...
Interviews
05/15/2012 @ 12:00AM
Carlos Fuentes said that politics tends to be ideological, religion tends to be dogmatic, but literature is always ambiguous. PW recently talked to the author, who unexpectedly died Tuesday, about his work and his new novel, Vlad, which comes out in July from Dalkey Archive Press.
Interviews
05/11/2012 @ 07:00PM
After 20 years of acting with the Royal Shakespeare Company and writing radio plays for the BBC, Rachel Joyce begins her career as novelist with The Unlikely Pilgrimage of Harold Fry.
Interviews
05/11/2012 @ 07:00PM
Retired NYPD detective Dave Gurney pursues a serial killer in John Verdon’s Let the Devil Sleep.
Interviews
05/11/2012 @ 07:00PM
Kira Brady’s studies in urban planning and historic preservation helped her create a fantastical alternate Seattle in Hearts of Darkness, the first in a paranormal romance trilogy.
Profiles
05/11/2012 @ 07:00PM
In 1969, Peter Lovesey’s mystery fan wife, Jax, pointed out a notice to her husband that read: “Macmillan and Panther Books announce a First Crime Novel Competition open to all nationals of the United Kingdom, Commonwealth and the Republics of Eire and South Africa.” Lovesey, a teacher at a technical college, was reluctant to respond although he did have some background in the genre.
Interviews
05/11/2012 @ 07:00PM
Comedian, actor, director, and writer Michael Showalter is probably best known for the 2001 film Wet Hot American Summer; the comedy troupe, Stella; and the MTV show The State. But he’s also written a memoir and recorded its audiobook, and this year he will host the Audies Gala.
Interviews
05/11/2012 @ 12:00AM
Taking a look back at 150 years of same-sex partnerships
Just as president Obama comes out in favor of gay marriage, a new book takes a close look at American same sex couples, from Walt Whitman to Greta Garbo to Jasper Johns.
Obituaries
05/10/2012 @ 03:00PM
Historian and critic Leonard S. Marcus remembers Maurice Sendak, who
Interviews
05/10/2012 @ 03:00PM
In his rollicking new novel, the space opera A Confusion of Princes, Australian writer Garth Nix, author of the classic Abhorsen Chronicles and the recent Keys to the Kingdom series, introduces a galaxy-spanning empire ostensibly run by the 10 million princes of the title, all working under the rule of a mysterious emperor but, as the protagonist gradually discovers, things are not at all what they seem.
Obituaries
05/09/2012 @ 10:00AM
Madalynne Reuter, former longtime news editor of Publishers Weekly, fiction writer, and mother, died May 3 at the Amsterdam House nursing home in Manhattan. She was 90.
The Roundup for Authors
Publishing news from across the Web
The Oregonian looks at a new poem by the poet W.S. DiPiero in its long-running poetry column.
New Directions head Barbara Epler talks to the New Yorker about the publisher's commitment to publishing the late Chilean master.
'Wimpy Kid' author Jeff Kinney will march in the Thanksgiving Day parade in NY alongside Becky Anderson, president of the ABA. From USA Today.
The writer's estate is suing over fees it believes its owed for "The Adjustment Bureau" movie. From the New York Times.
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Our second feature in Publishers Weekly's Focus on Audio 2012 takes us inside a Random House Audio recording studio to see how an audiobook gets made as Marcus Samuelsson records his memoir, Yes, Chef...
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