Bee Wilson, author of Dsicover Great New Writers Holiday 2012 pick Consider the Fork, discusses the "single greatest improvement ever to occur in kitchen technology," the one item cooks tell her they really love, and the graphic novel her teenage son convinced her to read, among many other things, with Discover Great New Writers.

Joe Mozingo reveals his family's incredible -- and very American -- story in his memoir, The Fiddler on Pantico Run. Here, he discusses his "funny last name," the legacies of race, and how his family's own lost history speaks to us all, among other things, with Discover Great New Writers.

Robin Sloan, author of Mr. Penumbra's 24-Hour Bookstore and Charles Yu, author of Sorry Please Thank You, talk about first-person vs. third-person narration, How Fiction Works by James Wood, and creating entirely new worlds with text, among other things.

Laurie Halse Anderson, the bestselling author of Speak (a National Book Award Finalist and Edgar Allan Poe Award Finalist) talks with Karen Hesse, MacArthur "Genius" Fellow  and author of Safekeeping, a haunting look at a near-future America with chilling overtones of a political dystopia.

In an exclusive interview, playwright Lucy Alibar, who adapted the script of art house favorite Beasts of the Southern Wild from her one-act play Juicy and Delicious, talks about the gender of her main character, future plans for her play, and authors she admires.

Edmund de Waal, author of The Hare with Amber Eyes, a Fall 2010 Discover Great New Writers selection, discusses connecting with readers, Proust, and the "odd correspondence between inheriting a story and inheriting an object."

Maggie Shipstead, the author of Seating Arrangments, our newest B&N Recommends selection, discusses class-conscious WASPs, literary influences from Cheever to Perotta, and exploding whales.

In an exclusive Q&A, Rajesh Parameswaran, the author of the Summer 2012 Discover Great New Writers selection I Am an Executioner, talks about the ideas, books, and writers who influenced his dazzling, often outrageous stories about appearances, power, and love.

The work of the late poet Adrienne Rich was an important part of Cheryl Strayed's trek along the Pacific Coast Trail, chronicled in her riveting new memoir, Wild. When Discover Great New Writers asked the author to talk about her book and her journey, she told us, "I've always loved books. But the books I took with me on my PCT hike were even more important because they were often my only companions. Some  I chose because I'd always heard I should read them -- books like Faulkner's As I Lay Dying and Nabokov's Lolita fall in to that category -- others I chose because I'd already read and loved them, such as Adrienne Rich's The Dream of Common Language, which is something of a sacred text in Wild."