Back to the Barre: Amber Benson on Her New Urban Fantasy, The Witches of Echo Park
More than a decade after the show went off the air, Amber Benson is still best known as Tara, the…
Interviews
When Your Book Becomes a Movie: A Talk with Stephen Amidon
American author Stephen Amidon’s dark slice of Americana, Human Capital, caught the attention of Italian director Paolo Virzì, whose film…
An Exclusive Interview with Jim Gaffigan, Author of Food: A Love Story
Jim Gaffigan is a food-loving, kid-raising, everyman comic—if, that is, your average everyman’s musings about Hot Pockets could get millions…
Evangeline Lilly’s The Squickerwonkers Is a Creepy, Crawly Delight
You may know her from her roles as Kate Austen in Lost or the elf Tauriel in Peter Jackson’s The…
Blue Lily, Lily Blue Author Maggie Stiefvater Tells Us What She’d Wish For From A Magical King
More than once, while reading Blue Lily, Lily Blue, I paused to silently thank Maggie Stiefvater for making the Raven Cycle a…
Sci-Fi Author Ann Leckie On How to Write the Sequel to an Award-Winning Debut
It would probably be faster to list all of the awards Ann Leckie didn’t win for her 2013 novel Ancillary Justice. Her…
Jeff Hobbs and Alex Kotlowitz: Where Empathy Is Born
Two acclaimed authors discuss reporting shocking stories of inner-city children in peril, and The Short and Tragic Life of Robert…
A Glimpse of the Present in Tsarist Russia With Gregory Maguire’s Egg & Spoon
Wicked scribe Gregory Maguire takes his patented vim, vigor and wit and applies it to Russian folklore in his latest, Egg &…
John Scalzi Explains the Secret to Writing Books Hollywood Will Love
Just a few months ago, I observed that it was a very good time to be John Scalzi: he was fresh off…
5 Questions with Bill O’Reilly about His Latest in The “Killing” Series, Killing Patton
Bill O’Reilly’s Killing Patton: The Strange Death of World War II’s Most Audacious General, fourth in the “killing” series, publishes tomorrow, and we…
An Interview With James Ellroy
I met James Ellroy at Book Expo America. He was there to talk about his new novel, Perfidia, the first in a…
Jandy Nelson on Her Sophomore Novel, Siblings, and Why Adults Should Read YA Lit
As will quickly become apparent, I’ve been a total Jandy Nelson fangirl since I first read her debut, The Sky…
More than Once in a Lifetime: David Mitchell on “The Bone Clocks”
“My original aspiration was to capture something massive, to go for broke.” David Mitchell talks about psychic battles and the…
Stephanie Perkins on Creativity, Genre Jumping, and the Long-Awaited End to her YA Romance Trilogy
This month marks the release of Isla and the Happily Ever After, the long-awaited final book in contemporary YA romance’s…
Interview with Chloë Grace Moretz, Star of the Upcoming Film Adaptation of If I Stay
The highly anticipated summer film If I Stay, based on Gayle Forman’s fantastic YA novel by the same title, tells the story…
Brandon Sanderson on Why We Still Read Books In the Internet Era
#GetPopCultured kicks off today with Preview Weekend! Come on in to your local B&N, where we’ll be featuring the…
Christopher Paolini On Finishing the Inheritance Cycle and Starting A New (Sci Fi!) Project
Christopher Paolini will be appearing at the Bozeman, MT Barnes & Noble on Saturday, July 19, at 2 p.m., as…
Sinner Author Maggie Stiefvater Gets Real…With Rock-Star Werewolves In L.A.
If you’ve never opened a Maggie Stiefvater novel, and have only read the synopses of her books, you might think…
An Interview with Sue Miller, Author of The Arsonist
Sue Miller’s The Arsonist is a perfect read for the season, combining a vacation town setting with family drama, romance,…
Cop Town’s Karin Slaughter on Writing, Feminism, and Why She’ll Never Get Picked Up By the Vice Squad
Thriller writer Karin Slaughter, best known for her beloved Will Trent and Grant County/Sara Linton series, recently took a break…