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Four Questions for Nicole Melleby
We spoke with Nicole Melleby about her new picture book, 'Sunny and Oswaldo'; younger middle-grade series The House on Sunrise Lagoon; her collaboration with A.J. Sass; and the nationwide rise in book banning.
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Four Questions for Kai Shappley
We spoke with 12-year-old Kai Shappley about her debut middle grade novel, 'Joy, to the World,' activism, and the importance of trans joy.
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ThrillerFest: PW Talks with Iris Yamashita About Her Novel 'City Under One Roof'
In screenwriter Yamashita’s whodunit, the entire population of an Alaska community lives in one building.
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ThrillerFest: PW Talks with Ana Reyes About Her Latest Novel, 'The House in the Pines'
In Reyes’s latest, a woman searches for her lost past while attempting to unmask a serial killer.
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ThrillerFest: PW Talks with T.R. Hendricks About His Latest Novel, 'The Instructor'
Hendricks, a former Army intelligence officer, introduces Derek Harrington, a retired Marine, in 'The Instructor' (Forge).
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ThrillerFest: PW Talks with Joey Hartstone About His Latest Novel, 'The Local'
In Hartstone’s 'The Local' (Doubleday), a small Texas town is the center of a patent litigation trial that turns into a murder case.
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ThrillerFest: PW Talks with Bradeigh Godfrey About Her First Solo Novel, 'Imposter'
Physician Godfrey draws on her experience treating severe neurological injuries in 'Imposter' (Blackstone), her first solo novel.
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ThrillerFest: PW Talks with Erin Adams About Her Latest Novel, 'Jackal'
Liz Rocher, the Black narrator of Adams’s 'Jackal' (Bantam), returns to her hometown only to discover that a serial killer of Black girls, whose crimes she survived there, is still active
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A Toxic Workplace Made in America: PW Talks with Kate Flannery
In "Strip Tees" (Holt, July), Flannery writes about her years as a spokesmodel for American Apparel, and the company’s charismatic, problematic founder.
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When Healthcare Reform Isn’t Enough: PW Talks with Amy Finkelstein
In "We’ve Got You Covered" (Portfolio, July), MIT economist Amy Finkelstein, with collaborator Stanford economist Liran Einav, poses how to reboot the U.S. healthcare system.
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Do We Not Bleed? PW Talks with Farah Karim-Cooper
In 'The Great White Bard' (Viking, Aug.), Karim-Cooper, director of education at Shakespeare’s Globe, examines the playwright’s portrayals of race and ethnicity.
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LGBTQ Writers Find Their Voice at Lambda Literary Retreat
Lambda’s Writer’s Retreat for Emerging LGBTQ Voices returns to an in-person format this summer.
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Q & A with Dave Eggers
Dave Eggers spoke with PW about writing for young people and adults alike, and why he felt driven to tell a story entirely from the perspective of animals in his new novel, 'The Eyes and the Impossible.'
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Unafraid: Zumrat Dawut’s Escape from China
Comics writer Anthony Del Col and artist Fahmida Azim, winners of the 2022 Pulitzer Prize for Illustrated Reporting and Commentary for 'I Escaped a Chinese Internment Camp,' on their heart-wrenching graphic account of a practicing Uyghur Muslim's detention by, and escape from, China.
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Four Questions for Ariel Aberg-Riger
Through a blend of prose, illustration, and collage, visual storyteller Ariel Aberg-Riger explores issues of inequity and social injustice; we spoke with her about her debut book, 'American Redux: Visual Stories from Our Dynamic History,' and her nonlinear approach to history.
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Q & A with Morgan Matson
After writing six YA novels, author Morgan Matson makes her middle grade debut with 'The Firefly Summer,' a captivating mystery blended with an emotionally rich family story.
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Reel Visibility: PW Talks with Tre’vell Anderson
In 'We See Each Other' (Andscape, May), journalist Tre’vell Anderson shines a critical spotlight on representations of trans people in movies and on TV.
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Sketch the Noise: PW Talks with Chuck D
Hip hop legend Chuck D’s collection of illustrated journals, 'Stewdio: The Naphic Grovel Artrilogy of Chuck D' (Enemy, June), documents life in America from the onset of the Covid-19 pandemic to the early days of the Biden administration.
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Market Crash: PW Talks with Andrew Lipstein
In Lipstein’s 'The Vegan' (Farrar, Straus and Giroux, July), good-intentioned hedge fund manager Herschel Caine commits a transgression that destabilizes his world.
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The Way Out: PW Talks with Drew Gilpin Faust
Faust, the former president of Harvard University and the first woman to hold that position, traces her political awakening in her coming-of-age memoir, 'Necessary Trouble' (FSG, Aug).