Leigh Newman is the author of the memoir Still Points North: One Alaskan Childhood, One Grown-up World, One Long Journey Home (The Dial Press, Mar. 19). Also the books editor for Oprah.com, Newman writes beautifully and vividly about growing up as a child of divorced parents--shuttling...

Tommy Mottola is a legend in the music industry. The former head of Sony Music not only launched the latin explosion, worked with stars like Michael Jackson and Bruce Springsteen, and managed performers from Hall & Oates to Jennifer Lopez, but is a former musician himself who turned his experience...

It's a coup for any film to get into Sundance, and this year is no exception -- the famed festival had over 8,000 short films submitted and selected just 65. One is K.I.T., produced by Lauren Schnipper. The film, starring and written and directed by Michelle...

Panio Gianopoulos is the author of A Familiar Beast (Nouvella Books). A recipient of a New York Foundation for the Arts Fellowship, his writing has appeared in Tin House, Northwest Review, Salon, The Hartford Courant, The Brooklyn Rail, FiveChapters, and The Rattling Wall, among others. I spoke with...

Kellie Wells is the author of three acclaimed works of fiction, including Compression Scars, the winner of the Flannery O'Connor Award. Her latest, Fat Girl, Terrestrial (Fiction Collective Two), tells the story of Wallis Armstrong, a giantess in the town of Kingdom Come, Kansas, where children...

Salvatore Pane's debut novel, Last Call in the City of Bridges, follows Michael Bishop, a hard-drinking, video-game-playing, dead-end-job-toiling 25-year-old who's about to meet his match in Ivy Chase, a pastor's daughter. I spoke with Pane about the influence of social media, independent presses and, of course, the unknowability...

It's difficult to find low-cost children's toys that combine entertainment with education, but Christine Mladic has done just that with YoBlocks, small blocks with personalized photos. I spoke with the company's founder about her inspiration for the toys, their benefits for kids, and how she is growing her...

Jami Attenberg is the author of three previous works of fiction -- the short-story collection Instant Love and the novels The Kept Man and The Melting Season. She is now publishing what is poised to be her breakout novel, The Middlesteins, a multigenerational saga about the titular family and their...

Governor Romney says he loves me. But his track record proves that he cares far more about Wall Street than Sesame Street.

I'm not sure what America Governor Romney lives in. In his, I assume, people live in mansions, dine on caviar, and sunbathe on yachts in the South of...

As president of fashion brand Citizens Of Humanity, Amy Williams's charge goes beyond selling more than a million pairs of jeans per year -- founder Jerome Dahan also enlisted Williams to guide Citizens in a direction that promotes a culture of creativity and philanthropy. To that end, the brand is...

Julian Tepper's whimsically titled debut novel, Balls, tells the story of Henry Schiller, a 30-year-old songwriter and lounge-player, who is in love with a younger and more musically talented woman, a careerist with a wandering eye. Henry's woes only worsen when he discovers he has testicular cancer. I spoke with...

In his debut book Trinity: A Graphic History of the First Atomic Bomb, author and illustrator Jonathan Fetter-Vorm tackles the immense history of the Manhattan Project, the top-secret government effort to build an atomic bomb. Using the directness and simplicity of the graphic medium, Trinity presents a clear...

Keith Bulluck is considered one of the best linebackers in NFL history -- and also one of the best people. Raised as a foster child in Rockland County, New York, Bulluck was a leader on a Syracuse football team that included Donovan McNabb and Dwight Freeney, then anchored the Tennessee...

Joshua Henkin, author of the New York Times notable book Matrimony, is back with his next novel, The World Without You, an insightful and elegant portrait of a family in grief. The Frankels have lost their son, Leo, a journalist on assignment in Iraq, and are memorializing him...

Americans in Paris are a common literary trope, but Rosecrans Baldwin has rejuvenated the expat genre with his new, wryly astute fish-out-of-water memoir, Paris, I Love You but You're Bringing Me Down (FSG). Baldwin's first novel, You Lost Me There, was named one of NPR's Best...

Ben Fountain rose to critical acclaim with his 2006 debut collection of short stories, Brief Encounters with Che Guevara, which netted the Dallas-based author a raft of honors, including the PEN/Hemingway and a Whiting Writers' Award. His first novel, Billy Lynn's Long Halftime Walk...

Where would David Foster Wallace have turned for help with his love life? He "may have been sympathetic to the just-published Much Ado About Loving, in which the writers Jack Murnighan and Maura Kelly plumb great literature for relationship advice," according to the New...

No Look Pass is a stunning new documentary by Melissa Johnson, a former web producer and director for Comedy Central ("The Colbert Report") and BBC America. Johnson was also a basketball star at Harvard, where she returned for her film about Emily Tay, a Burmese immigrant who makes...

John Warner, a longtime editor for Dave Eggers's website, McSweeney's Internet Tendency and contributor to The Morning News, is the author of three humor books. He's now set to make his literary debut with The Funny Man (Soho Press), a tragicomic novel...

On September 16, 2001, Jenna M. McKnight, then a newspaper reporter in Indiana, sent a letter to a few dozen friends and family members, asking for their responses to September 11. The letter spread to strangers, and the contributions, most submitted in the weeks following 9/11 and collected over a...