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Ways of Seeing: PW Talks with Claire Dederer
In 'Monsters' (Knopf, Apr.), book critic Dederer examines the complexities of loving art by problematic artists.
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'The Giver' Author Lois Lowry Discusses Her New Book
In her new book, 'The Windeby Puzzle,' two-time Newbery Medalist Lois Lowry combines both narrative history and fiction to imagine the life of an adolescent child from the first century whose remains were excavated in northern Germany.
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Q & A with Chad Otis
Author-illustrator Chat Otis spoke with us about the theme of childhood resilience in his new picture book, 'The Bright Side,' inspired by his experience growing up unhoused.
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Four Questions for Katherine Schwarzenegger Pratt
We spoke with Katherine Schwarzenegger Pratt on the eve of her launch for 'Good Night, Sister,' about how she approached this picture book project as a sister, and now, also a mother of sisters.
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Choosing Words Carefully: PW Talks with Bryan A. Garner, Author of 'Garner's Modern English Usage'
PW caught up with the famous lexicographer to talk about the recently published fifth edition of his essential guide and his lifelong fascination with the English language.
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The Parent Trip: PW Talks with Connie Wang
The author of 'Oh My Mother!' discusses the privileges and challenges of travel, and how her travels with her mom offer a window onto their relationship.
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Cabin Fever: PW Talks with Max Humphrey
'Lodge' coauthor Max Humphrey, an interior designer, takes readers on "an indoorsy tour of America's National Parks."
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From the Ashes: PW Talks with Rachel Beanland
Beanland’s 'The House Is on Fire' (Simon & Schuster, Apr.) traces a historic calamity and its immediate aftermath.
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A Killer Goes to College: PW Talks with Caroline Kepnes
In 'For You and Only You' (Random House, Apr.), Kepnes’s series protagonist, murderous psychopath Joe Goldberg, enrolls in a Harvard writing fellowship.
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‘I Had to Get My Pablo Neruda On’: Songsmith Ani Di Franco Composes a Picture Book
Ani Di Franco says that she had to 'get her Pablo Neruda on' and switch mental gears to move from writing songs to crafting a book for children.
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Wi2023: Activist Michelle MiJung Kim Sounds an Alarm Against Complacency
Social justice activist Michelle MiJung Kim argues that people must walk their talk about diversity, equity, and inclusion in order to effect real change that will last.
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Wi2023: ABA Education Director Kim Hooyboer Pulls Back the Curtain
ABA education director Kim Hooyboer brings PW behind the scenes in Winter Institute planning, including the organization's commitment to DEI initiatives.
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Wi2023: ABA CEO Allison Hill Welcomes the Book World to Seattle
ABA CEO Allison Hill shares with PW her excitement about the first in-person Winter Institute over which she is presiding and what booksellers can expect in Seattle.
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Q & A with Ann Liang
In Ann Liang's second YA novel, 'This Time It's Real,' new student Eliza Lin enlists the help of classmate and celebrity actor Caz Song for a "mutually beneficial and romantically oriented alliance," to save her reputation.
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Sonny Rollins: Saxophone Supreme; 'PW' talks with Aidan Levy
Aidan Levy’s 'Saxophone Colossus: The Life and Music of Sonny Rollins,' is a moving and meticulously researched 784-page biography of the masterful jazz saxophonist.
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Black Women in Cartoons: 'PW' Talks with Barbara Brandon-Croft
A new collected edition of Barbara Brandon-Croft's 'Where I’m Coming From,' the first comic strip by a Black woman to be nationally syndicated to the mainstream press, will be released by Drawn & Quarterly February 7.
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Q & A with Jumata Emill
Newspaper journalist-turned-novelist Jumata Emill makes his YA debut with 'The Black Queen,' a murder mystery brimming with suspense and set in the Deep South.
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Worn Out: PW Talks with Arline Geronimus
In 'Weathering' (Little, Brown Spark, Apr.), public health scholar Geronimus examines how racism, classism, and other forms of oppression affect marginalized people’s health.
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Something Rotten in Denmark: PW Talks with Amulya Malladi
In Malladi’s 'A Death in Denmark' (Morrow, Mar.), PI Gabriel Præst reopens the case of a Muslim convicted of murdering Denmark’s right-wing attorney general.
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Far-Future Fascism: PW Talks with Emily Tesh
Valkyr, a woman raised to seek revenge against the aliens that destroyed Earth, must reckon with her prejudice in Tesh’s space opera debut, 'Some Desperate Glory' (Tordotcom, Apr.).
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