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Four Questions for Jamie Oliver

By Amanda Ramirez | 11/09/2023 @ 03:00PM

Celebrity chef, restauranteur, television host, and cookbook author Jamie Oliver makes his children's book debut with 'Billy and the Giant Adventure,' a middle grade fantasy series opener.
Origin Story: PW Talks with Bible Scholar Jacob L. Wright

By Lenny Picker | 11/08/2023 @ 10:00AM

In 'Why the Bible Began: An Alternative History of Scripture and its Origins' (Cambridge Univ., out now), Jacob L. Wright, Hebrew Bible professor at Emory University, offers answers to a question many have never considered.
Q & A with Jordyn Taylor

By Amanda Ramirez | 11/07/2023 @ 03:00PM

Jordyn Taylor spoke with us about following up her historical YA romances with a YA mystery thriller, 'The Revenge Game,' and fighting back against toxic masculinity.
Questions and Transgressions: PW Talks with Rachel Howzell Hall

By Pooja Makhijani | 11/03/2023 @ 07:00PM

Crime novelist Rachel Howzell Hall pivots to new adult romantasy with 'The Last One' (Red Tower, Feb. 2024). The author spoke with 'PW' about riding the romantasy wave.
There and Back: PW Talks with Monica Murphy

By Pooja Makhijani | 11/03/2023 @ 07:00PM

Monica Murphy is well positioned to speak to the revival of new adult romance. The author spoke with PW about comebacks in fiction and in real life.
Wicked Wilderness: PW Talks with Jenny Kiefer

By Lenny Picker | 11/03/2023 @ 07:00PM

A group of rock climbers meets a grisly fate in Kiefer’s survival horror debut, 'This Wretched Valley.'
Writers Talking Writers: Chuck Palahniuk on Ira Levin and Claire Dederer on Laurie Colwin

By Nick Hilden | 11/03/2023 @ 10:00AM

Chuck Palahniuk on the domestic horror novels of Ira Levin and Claire Dederer on the kitchen sink domestic analysis of Laurie Colwin.
In Conversation: Alex Aster and Ali Hazelwood

| 11/02/2023 @ 04:00PM

We asked friends and fellow authors Aster and Hazelwood to interview each other about their new books, which are both due out on November 7, and the many ways their characters take them by surprise.
Four Questions for Rhonda Roumani

By Amanda Ramirez | 11/02/2023 @ 03:00PM

Syrian American journalist Rhonda Roumani makes her children's book debut with middle grade novel 'Tagging Freedom,' set just before the Syrian Revolution in 2010.
Four Questions for Sharon Cameron

By Krystyna Poray Goddu | 10/31/2023 @ 03:00PM

Sharon Cameron spoke with PW about her new YA historical thriller, 'Artifice,' which takes place in Nazi-occupied Amsterdam, and the importance of preserving individual stories.
The Psychedelic Cold War: PW Talks with Benjamin Breen

by Michelle Arnot | 10/27/2023 @ 07:00PM

In 'Tripping on Utopia' (Grand Central, Jan.), Breen charts the role married anthropologists Margaret Mead and Gregory Bateson played in mid-20th-century psychedelic research.
In Conversation: David Macaulay and Brian Floca

| 10/26/2023 @ 04:00PM

In honor of the 50th anniversary of 'Cathedral,' David Macaulay discussed the book's origin story.
Q & A with Jessixa and Aaron Bagley

By Shannon Maughan | 10/26/2023 @ 03:00PM

We spoke with author-illustrator Jessixa Bagley and her husband, comics artist Aaron Bagley, about their first middle grade graphic novel, 'Duel,' and the art of fencing.
Q & A with Mélina Mangal

By Patricia J. Murphy | 10/23/2023 @ 09:00AM

We spoke with Mélina Mangal about the ways her library work and writing cross-pollinate each other, and why she's passionate about sharing the beauty of nature with young readers.
Fruitless Endeavor: PW Talks with Jacqueline Alnes

By Holly Lebowitz Rossi | 10/20/2023 @ 07:00PM

The author of the memoir 'The Fruit Cure' discusses the isolation of living with illness, the dangers of being desperate for answers, and the dark side of the wellness industry.
Rise of the Machines: PW Talks with Eve Herold

by Suzanne Shablovsky | 10/20/2023 @ 07:00PM

In 'Robots and the People Who Love Them' (St. Martin’s, Jan.), science writer Herold studies how advanced androids are changing human society.
Ways to Survive: PW Talks with Michael Cherkas

By Shaenon Garrity | 10/20/2023 @ 07:00PM

Cherkas’s graphic novel 'Red Harvest' (NBM, Nov.) follows one family through the Holodomor, the Ukrainian famine of 1931 and 1932.
It Could Happen Here: PW Talks with Paul Lynch

By Louisa Ermelino | 10/20/2023 @ 07:00PM

In the Booker Prize–winning 'Prophet Song' (Grove, Dec.), Lynch imagines an Ireland falling into chaos under an authoritarian regime.

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