WELCOME TO THE 10 QUESTIONS ARCHIVE-
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Markus Zusak's recent novel, The Book Thief, has been nominated for a 2006 Quill Book Award and is a favorite of the Politics and Prose Children’s Department, which collaborated to interview him for the store. |
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Michael Cox's first novel, TheMeaning of Night, was an effort thirty years in the making, which sparked a bidding war among publishers. Mark LaFramboise interviewed the author about the novel and the amazing story behind it. |
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Alison Bechdel's graphic novel Fun Home is a reflective, intimate memoir of Bechdel’s troubled yet loving relationship with her father, as well as her own realization of sexual identity. Virginia Harabin and Susan Skirboll asked the author about her life and her art. |
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Ward Just's Forgetfulness explores the tension between public duty and private conscience that animates much of his fiction. Bill Leggett interviewed Just in advance of his appearance at the store on Tuesday, September 19th at 7 p.m. |
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Virginia Harabin asks David Simon, author of the newly reissued Homicide: A Year on the Killing Streets, about the politics of crime, the drug war, the Baltimore police, and his portrait of the contemporary American city. |
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Neil Gaiman's work examines myth, magic and legend: the things which have both frightened and exhilarated audiences for centuries. Michael Link and Heather Dannenfelser interviewed Mr. Gaiman about his work, including his latest collection, Fragile Things. |
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T.C. Boyle’s Talk Talk is at once a thrilling road trip across America and a moving tale about love, language, and who we are. Bill Leggett asked Boyle about the influence of life on fiction, the difference between short stories and novels, and his approach to writing. |
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In his new book Iraq: The Logic of Withdrawal, Anthony Arnove takes up the most pressing questions facing the anti-war movement. Virginia Harabin asked Arnove about the war, activism, elections, and the politics of the anti-war movement. |
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In The Defining Moment, Jonathan Alter examines the first 100 days of Franklin Delano Roosevelt’s presidency. Barbara Meade asked Alter about the process of researching this book and the evolution of FDR’s legacy. |
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Tim Flannery’s new book The Weather Makers shows that the climate is changing rapidly and that change is having a serious ecological impact. |
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Justin Tussing’s debut novel The Best People in the World follows three characters as they flee Paducah, Kentucky for an abandoned house on a mountain in Vermont. Dan Rivas asked Tussing about faith, the 70s, and what it means to be “the best people in the world.” |
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For the author of Jesus Land and her two black adopted brothers, life was devoid of Christian benevolence. Risa Gross talks to Julia Scheeres about revisiting a difficult past. |
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Olga Grushin’s The Dream Life of Sukhanov is both a metaphor for the Soviet state and a powerful portrait of an individual painfully facing what might have been. Laurie Greer interviewed Grushin about her luminous debut novel. |
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Carla Cohen talks with Timothy Noah, Marjorie Williams' husband and a senior writer at the online journal Slate, selected and edited Williams' essays for The Woman at the Washington Zoo. |
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We delve into the realm of half-truth and wildly imaginative history with John Hodgman, curator and host of “The Little Gray Book Lectures,” a monthly colloquium of readings and songs, who continues his dubious scholarship with The Areas of My Expertise. |
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P&P Floor Manager Jon Huntington poses ten questions to Charles Mann, author of 1491, which compiles for a wide audience the current science about America before Columbus. |
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Dan Rivas speaks with D.C.'s own Edward P. Jones, whose book The Known World won the Pulitzer Prize in 2004. |
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Heather McLeod probes the depths of Rescuing Patty Hearst author Virginia Holman... |
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Kate Shulman sheds some light on the dark world of Ghost Image scribe Joshua Gilder... |
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M.Link uncovers the secrets behind Creature Tech's Doug TenNapel... |
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Discover the Lost Interview with FOUND Magazine founder Davy Rothbart... |
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Investigative children from Politics & Prose probe Lemony Snicket with a nefarious 10 Questions... |
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Clare Schaefer asks Basic 8 author Daniel Handler an unfortunate 10 Questions... |
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Cleve Corner asks the Earthsea and Left Hand of Darkness author 10 Questions.... |
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Jason Brown talks to The Best Democracy Money Can Buy Author Greg Palast |
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Mark LaFramboise interviews the best selling author of Hell to Pay and Right as Rain |
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Jon Huntington talks with the Pulitzer Prize winning author of The Future of Life |
