Daniel H. Pink on CNN.com

Pink lays out some of the principles in Drive and offers practical examples of how you can get a start on better motivating yourself and those around you. Learn more about Drive, fed-ex days, and finding your sentence here. Plus, check out his conversation with Diane Sawyer in this video.

Malcolm Gladwell Chooses Daniel H. Pink’s Drive for The New Yorker Book Club

As a part of The New Yorker’s Book Club, Malcolm Gladwell has selected the March pick: Drive by Daniel H. Pink. Gladwell claims, "[Pink] tackles the question of what motivates people to do innovative work, and his jumping-off point is the academic work done over the past few decades that consistently shows that financial rewards hinder creativity. These studies have been around for a while. But Pink follows though on their implications in a way that is provocative and fascinating.” Be on the look out for live discussions and reactions from other New Yorker staff writers and contributors. Read an interview with Daniel H. Pink here.

The Boston Globe Talks to Paula Butturini

In Keeping the Feast, Paula Butturini celebrates the role food and its pleasures played in her family’s recovery. She talks to The Boston Globe about the importance of sitting down at the table for meals, her love for Julia Child, and what she would serve at a VIP dinner.

Guernica Interviews Aleksandar Hemon

Guernica talks to Aleksandar Hemon about launguage, being a refugee of the Internet age, and The Lazarus Project and Love and Obstacles. Read the full interview here.

The Chicago Tribune on Cristina Henríquez

The Chicago Tribune peers into the writing life of the Cristina Henríquez--whose first novel, The World in Half, is just out in paperback--and uncovers how she steals a few quiet hours a week for writing, the benefits of revising, and the places that have inspired her stories.

Chicago Sun Times on Nami Mun and Miles From Nowhere

The Chicago Sun Times’ Mary Houlihan catches up with Nami Mun about the experiences from her past that inspired her to write—leaving home at age 13, getting her high school and college diplomas on the same day, devouring the classics, her years as a private investigator, and much more.

Nathaniel Rich on Salinger for The Daily Beast

Nathaniel Rich, author of The Mayor’s Tongue, mourns the death of J.D. Salinger and speculates about the work that may emerge from his passing.  “This very moment a giant U-Haul truck, filled with paper, may be trundling down I-95 toward the offices of The New Yorker, or Harold Ober Associates, or Little, Brown.” Get excited.

Meghan O'Rourke on Grief for The New Yorker

Meghan O’Rourke writes an essay for The New Yorker on grief, asking, “Is there a better way to be bereaved?” O’Rourke discusses the shortcomings of the five stages of grieving in Elizabeth Kübler-Ross’ seminal On Death and Dying, and questions the disappearance of public mourning rituals in the West. This essay is part of O’Rourke’s memoir, The Long Goodbye, which will be published by Riverhead in 2011.

Doug Dorst's "Little Reptiles" on 5 Chapters

Doug Dorst's (author of Alive in Necropolis) “Little Reptiles” was recently published by 5 Chapters—"Little Reptiles" is just one of many fantastic stories in Dorst's forthcoming collection, The Surf Guru (July 15). 5 Chapters is a website that puts out a short story in five parts each week. Have you ever heard of a boomslang, galliwasp, argus monitor, daboia, or gharial? Dorst enlightens us. 

The Daily Beast on Pakistan and Ali Sethi’s The Wish Maker

The Daily Beast’s Olivia Cole talks with Ali Sethi about the lessons learned from fiction, the power of a storytelling tradition, and the the Pakistan of today vs. the one in his debut novel, The Wish Maker.