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Q & A with Tony Keith Jr.
We spoke with hip-hop educator and spoken word artist Tony Keith Jr. about his debut YA verse memoir, 'How the Boogeyman Became a Poet.'
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Winter Institute 2024: Scouting Locations and Making Friends: PW Talks with Lauren Castillo
In her latest picture book, 'Just Like Millie,' Castillo finds inspiration in her neighborhood and local dogs.
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Winter Institute 2024: Reimagining a Family’s History: PW Talks with Claire Messud
The author discusses her multivocal new novel, 'This Strange Eventful History,' which is drawn from her Algerian relatives’ memories and experiences.
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Winter Institute 2024: Joy Dallanegra-Sanger's Career Devoted to Books
The COO of the American Booksellers Association discusses her 40 years in the book business—and the friendships she’s made along the way.
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Winter Institute 2024: Prompting Stories and Subtexts: PW Talks with Michele Norris
After more than a decade collecting succinct personal statements about race, 'Washington Post' columnist Michele Norris puts the cards on the table in her new book, 'Our Hidden Conversations.'
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Winter Institute 2024: Writing a Novel for Our Times: PW Talks with Leif Enger
Leif Enger channels contemporary anxieties and wonders in his latest novel, 'I Cheerfully Refuse.'
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A Car of One’s Own: PW Talks with Nancy A. Nichols
In 'Women Behind the Wheel' (Pegasus, Mar.), journalist Nichols provides a women’s history of the automobile.
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Life Is a Highway: PW Talks with Alison Cochrun
Estranged childhood best friends take their dying mentor on a cross-country road trip in Cochrun’s 'Here We Go Again' (Atria, Apr.).
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In Conversation: Erin Frankel and David Unger
We asked authors Erin Frankel and David Unger to interview each other about their forthcoming picture book biographies on chef José Andrés, founder of World Central Kitchen, and the inspiration they've found in his activism.
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Q & A with Ray Xu
In his graphic novel debut 'Alterations,' animator Ray Xu draws from his own childhood memories growing up in 1990s Toronto to chronicle one comic book-loving Chinese Canadian middle schooler's tumultuous adolescence.
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Four Questions for Goldy Moldavsky
Goldy Moldavsky spoke with PW about her new YA rom-com, 'Just Say Yes,' inspired by her experience growing up as an immigrant in the early aughts, and writing across genres.
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PW Close-Up: James Patterson's 'The Secret Lives of Booksellers and Librarians'
James Patterson's latest nonfiction title, The Secret Lives of Booksellers and Librarians (Little, Brown, Apr.), takes us inside the lives, and livelihoods, of the everyday heroes surrounding us in the literary trenches: booksellers and librarians. In a collection of profiles that includes professionals of all types, from school librarians to independent booksellers to big box chain employees, Patterson and his co-author, Matt Eversmann, delve into how these reading gurus inspire young and old every day. (Sponsored)
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Still Got Bite: PW Talks with David Small
With the illustrated stories of ‘The Werewolf at Dusk’ (Liveright, Mar.), Small examines what he calls “the vestibule of old age.”
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Women Behaving Badly: PW Talks with Helen Monks Takhar
In 'Nothing Without Me' (Random House, Apr.), Monks Takhar explores the vicissitudes of fame through the eyes of fledgling director April and disgraced film star Essie.
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In Search of Anna O: PW Talks with Gabriel Brownstein
The woman who became the “founding myth” of psychoanalysis takes center stage in novelist Brownstein’s ‘The Secret Mind of Bertha Pappenheim’ (PublicAffairs, Apr.).
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Four Questions for Liana Finck
We spoke with 'New Yorker' cartoonist Liana Finck about her debut picture book, 'You Broke It!,' and her longtime aspirations create books for children.
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Q & A with Emma Lord
Emma Lord spoke with PW about her new YA romance, 'The Getaway List,' crafting quintessential rom-com moments, and writing love stories for an emotionally mature generation.
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Working for a Living: PW Talks with Adelle Waldman
In ‘Help Wanted’ (Norton, Mar.), Waldman follows a team of workers at a big-box store in Upstate New York.
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The Man with the Golden Pen: PW Talks with Nicholas Shakespeare
In 'Ian Fleming' (Harper, Mar.), novelist Shakespeare chronicles the life of the James Bond creator and British intelligence officer.
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A New Approach: PW Talks With Morgan Talty
The award-winning short story writer returns with the novel 'Fire Exit' (Tin House, June), about a white man named Charles who grew up on the Penobscot reservation in Maine.