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High Marks: PW Talks with Lauren Nossett
Nossett follows up 'The Resemblance' with 'The Professor' (Flatiron, Nov.), a campus thriller that sees sleuth Marlitt Kaplan investigating a student’s apparent suicide.
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What’s God Got to Do with It?: PW Talks with Ralph H. Craig III
In 'Dancing in My Dreams' (Eerdmans, Nov.), Craig, a lecturer of religion at Dartmouth, traces Tina Turner’s spiritual path, from her Baptist roots to her embrace of Buddhism.
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A Wild Playground: PW talks with Eskor David Johnson
The protagonist of Eskor David Johnson’s debut novel, 'Pay as You Go' (McSweeney’s, Oct.), is a barber seeking a suitable place to live in an off-kilter version of New York City whose unruly denizens have other plans for the young man.
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The Grande Dame of Harlem: PW Talks with Tanisha Ford
In 'Our Secret Society' (Amistad, Oct.), historian Ford profiles civil rights fund-raiser and socialite Mollie Moon.
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Reincarnation: PW Talks with Amy Kurzweil
'New Yorker' cartoonist Kurzweil’s graphic memoir 'Artificial' (Catapult, Oct.) documents how her father, futurist Ray Kurzweil, programmed an AI chatbot to “resurrect” her grandfather.
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In Conversation: Yohuru Williams and Michael G. Long
We asked Yohuru Williams and Michael G. Long, co-authors of 'More Than a Dream,' to discuss their research into the momentous March on Washington in 1963, and the importance of recognizing echoes of the past in contemporary events.
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Q & A with Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
With her forthcoming publication, 'Mama's Sleeping Scarf,' award-winning author Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie delves into a new category: children's books.
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Four Questions for Patricia C. Wrede
In 'The Dark Lord's Daughter,' Patricia C. Wrede's first new release in 10 years, 14-year-old Kayla Jones discovers that the biological father she never knew was the dreaded, now deceased, Dark Lord of a magical realm—and she's expected to follow in his footsteps.
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Immortal Truths: PW Talks with Saskia Hamilton
In 'All Souls' (Graywolf, Oct.), Hamilton, who died in June, illuminates love, fear, memory, and art in poems and lyric fragments.
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A Better World: PW Talks with Gabriel Bump
In Bump’s 'The New Naturals' (Algonquin, Nov.), a pair of Black academics fleeing campus racism form an underground utopian commune in Western Massachusetts.
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Waterworld: PW Talks with Helen Czerski
In 'The Blue Machine' (Norton, Oct.), oceanographer Czerski surveys the biology and physics of the global ocean.
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Q & A with Breena Bard
In her timely middle-grade graphic novel 'Wildfire,' Breena Bard introduces an eighth-grader, Julianna, whose family is displaced to urban Portland when a fire destroys their rural Oregon home.
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Marjane Satrapi Is Done with Comics, But Never Art or the Revolution
The Iranian-French author of 'Persepolis,' which celebrates its 20th anniversary with a new edition, discusses her shift from comics to film, the banning of books in America, and her pride in Iran's young revolutionaries.
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Homemade Crafts for the Holidays: PW Talks with Arounna Khounnoraj
Toronto artist and maker Arounna Khounnoraj takes an accessible and resourceful approach in 'Winter Celebrations' (Quadrille, Sept.).
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DIY for All: PW Talks with Mercury Stardust
In 'Safe and Sound' (DK, Aug.), Mercury Stardust, aka the Trans Handy Ma'am, encourages and empowers renters to tackle home maintenance.
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Color Commentary: PW Talks with Adrian Tomine
In 2007, Drawn & Quarterly published Adrian Tomine's graphic novel 'Shortcomings.' Fast-forward 16 years and its live-action film adaptation, directed by actor Randall Park with a screenplay by Tomine, is now in theaters—much to its author's delight.
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We're Just Guests: PW Talks with Nathan W. Pyle
Nathan W. Pyle’s hit webcomic, 'Strange Planet,' became an Instagram phenomenon. Then it became a graphic novel, then a picture book series. Now it’s an animated series on Apple TV+. We spoke with the cartoonist about how his curious alien creatures became TV stars.
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Carriers of Culture: PW Talks with Oghenechovwe Donald Ekpeki and Joshua Uchenna Omenga
In the stories and essays of 'Between Dystopias: The Road to Afropantheology' (CAEZIK SF & Fantasy, Oct.), Ekpeki and Omenga explore the intersections of the fantastic and the spiritual.
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How to Live: PW Talks with Stephanie Barron
After 15 entries, Barron’s Being a Jane Austen Mystery series comes to a touching close with 'Jane and the Final Mystery' (Soho Crime, Oct.).
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In Conversation: Tanisia Moore and Robert Paul Jr.
We asked debut author Tanisia Moore and illustrator Robert Paul Jr. to discuss the genesis of their forthcoming picture book collaboration, 'I Am My Ancestors' Wildest Dreams,' and connecting with Black history on a personal level.