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Known Unknowns: PW Talks with Kelsey Johnson
In 'Into the Unknown' (Basic, Oct.), astronomer Kelsey Johnson probes the limits of scientific knowledge about the universe.
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Voices Carry: PW Talks with Maylis de Kerangal
Maylis De Kerangal explores memory, voice, and human connection in the story collection 'Canoes' (Archipelago, Oct.).
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The Past Is Never Dead: PW Talks with Brandon Shimoda
In 'The Afterlife Is Letting Go' (City Lights, Dec.), poet Brandon Shimoda reflects on attempts to memorialize the mass incarceration of Japanese Americans during WWII.
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Fall Regionals 2024: Forging Connections in California: PW Talks with CALIBA Executive Director Hannah Walcher
After being announced as the California Booksellers Alliance’s new executive director in February, Hannah Walcher, former director of Books Inc.’s nonprofit Reading Bridge book fair program, officially started work in June. We spoke with Walcher about her bookselling journey, CALIBA’s top priorities, and her excitement for the upcoming Fall Fest in Pasadena.
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Q & A with Randy Ribay
Via four generations of Filipino teens' alternating perspectives, Randy Ribay, author of 'Patron Saints of Nothing,' a National Book Award finalist, examines masculinity and familial trauma in his historical YA novel 'Everything We Never Had'.
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Throw Thorn a Bone: PW Talks with Jeff Smith
Before the great cartoonist released his classic series, Bone, he created its characters as part of his “precocious college comic strip,” Thorn.
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A Bible Study with a Monster Twist: PW Talks with Manny Arango
A Dallas preacher sees the wreckage of chaos—the dragons of anxiety, deceit, selfishness and worse—in scripture and the promise of a savior.
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The Trail Less Traveled: PW Talks with Ted Alvarez
The author of ‘Hiking Hidden Gems in America’s National Parks’ discusses the complicated allure of Instagrammable landscapes.
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The Art of Grieving: PW Talks with Sarah Leavitt
Leavitt channels her grief over her partner’s medically assisted suicide into diary comics in 'Something, Not Nothing' (Arsenal Pulp, Sept.).
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Hundreds of Open Tabs and a Lot of Imagination: PW Talks with Andreas Malm and Wim Carton
In 'Overshoot' (Verso, Oct.), climate scholars Andreas Malm and Wim Carton debunk easy technical fixes and propose a forceful economic vision for how to stop global warming.
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Q & A with Julian Winters
In Julian Winters's latest YA romance, 'Prince of the Palisades,' the titular royal Jadon is sent to L.A. to prove to his family that he can be the kind of prince and leader his nation Rêverie needs.
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Four Questions for Abigail Hing Wen
Abigail Hing Wen sets sail from her bestselling Loveboat series to chart new territory in the rom-com thriller 'Kisses, Codes, and Conspiracies', her first standalone YA novel.
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Q & A with Jordan Ifueko
Jordan Ifueko confronts the complex aftermath of revolution in her YA fantasy 'The Maid and the Crocodile,' set 10 years after her Raybearer series.
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Four Questions for Hayley Dennings
YA author Hayley Dennings’s bloodthirsty romantasy debut, 'This Ravenous Fate,' takes place during the lively Harlem Renaissance era.
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Revenge and Revolution: PW Talks with August Clarke
Marney Honeycutt, seeking revenge after her family is murdered in a strike break, joins a crew of lesbian bandit revolutionaries in Clarke’s 'Metal from Heaven' (Erewhon, Oct.).
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Potrait of a Time and Place: PW Talks with Jean Strouse
In 'Family Romance,' biographer Jean Strouse traces the relationship between John Singer Sargent and a large British Jewish family at the turn of the 20th century.
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Q & A with Maureen Johnson
In Maureen Johnson's latest standalone mystery following her bestselling Truly Devious series, a gay teen investigates not one but two murders that have taken place at her eerie new place of work.
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Four Questions for Caitlin Schneiderhan
We spoke with Caitlin Schneiderhan, a writer on the sci-fi TV drama 'Stranger Things,' about her YA debut, 'Medici Heist,' a caper set in Renaissance Florence.
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Breaking Down Stereotypes: PW Talks with Jen Malia
Author and educator Jen Malia is working to replace negative perspectives of neurodiversity with positive ones, one book at a time.
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Beyond the Book: Connie Chung's 'Connie'
Connie Chung was 23 when she landed her first job in TV news. At 47, she was named coanchor of CBS Evening News, becoming the show’s first female host and the first Asian news anchor in the U.S. With her memoir, Connie (Grand Central), publishing in September, PW talked with the trailblazing journalist about breaking glass ceilings, confronting powerful men, and inadvertently becoming an inspiration to a generation of Asian American women. (Sponsored)
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