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In Conversation: Rebecca Stead and Wendy Mass
We asked authors Rebecca Stead and Wendy Mass to discuss their new middle-grade collaboration, 'The Lost Library,' finding inspiration during the pandemic, and the magic of Little Free Libraries.
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A Rock and a Hard Place: PW Talks with Stephanie Land
In 'Class' (One Signal, Nov.), Land follows up 2019’s bestselling 'Maid' with an account of her experiences in higher education while struggling financially and trying to raise a child.
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The Women Behind Jane: PW Talks with Kerri Maher
Maher’s 'All You Have to Do Is Call' (Berkley, Sept.) fictionalizes the history of the women’s health organization Jane as three women fight for reproductive rights in 1970s Chicago.
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The Solution to a 150-Year-Old Mystery: PW Talks with Scott Shane
In 'Flee North' (Celadon, Sept.), journalist Shane spotlights Thomas Smallwood, a free Black man living in Washington, D.C., who led hundreds of enslaved people to freedom in the 1840s.
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Consent Is Sexy: PW Talks with Victoria Lee
Lee’s 'A Shot in the Dark' (Dell, Sept.) pairs recovering alcoholic Ely Cohen with her teacher, hotshot trans photographer Wyatt Cole.
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Baggage Claim: PW Talks with Shahnaz Habib
The author of 'Airplane Mode' (Catapult, Dec.) reconsiders what it means to be a "bad traveler."
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Q & A with James Breakwell
We spoke with James Breakwell, creator of the viral Twitter account @XplodingUnicorn, about bringing his brand of family humor to his debut picture book, 'You Can't Be a Pterodactyl!'
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Q & A with Nicki Pau Preto
This July, YA author Nicki Pau Preto follows up her Crown of Feathers trilogy with 'Bonesmith'—a duology-opening dark fantasy introducing Wren Graven, a bonesmith who is able to psychically sense and move bone.
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What We Talk About When We Talk About 'Nancy': PW Talks with Bill Griffith
Bill Griffith’s 'Three Rocks: The Story of Ernie Bushmiller: The Man Who Created Nancy' (Abrams ComicArts, Aug.) is a graphic biography of one of the unsung heroes of newspaper comics.
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Fired Up: PW Talks with Clive Oppenheimer
In 'Mountains of Fire' (Univ. of Chicago, Sept.), volcanologist Oppenheimer explores the science of volcanoes.
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Forgive and Forget, or Neither: PW Talks with Myisha Cherry
In 'Failures of Forgiveness' (Princeton Univ., Sept.), Cherry, an assistant professor of philosophy at UC Riverside, rethinks the meaning and purpose of absolution.
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Q & A with Carin Berger
We spoke with author-illustrator Carin Berger about her new picture book, 'In the Night Garden,' the satisfaction of making a book from start to finish, and books that rebel.
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Is This How Democracy Ends?: PW Talks with Andrew Yang and Stephen Marche
In 'The Last Election' (Akashic, Sept.), former presidential candidate Yang partners with novelist Marche for a political thriller about a third-party candidate and an impending military coup.
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Prisoners of War: PW Talks with Keum Seuk Gendry-Kim
'The Naked Tree' (Drawn & Quarterly, Aug.) adapts Park Wan-suh’s classic novel of the same name, about a young woman who produces souvenir art for American soldiers occupying Seoul during the Korean War and falls for a married fellow artist.
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In Conversation: R.L. Stine and Marc Brown
The Goosebumps author and the creator of Arthur discussed their third picture book collaboration, their publishing journeys, and how they engage young readers through humor and horror.
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Q & A with R.M. Romero
PW spoke with R.M. Romero about her new YA novel, 'A Warning About Swans,' her dedication to caring for Jewish cemeteries in Poland, and her family's roots in magical realism.
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The State as Abuser: PW Talks with Kylie Cheung
In 'Survivor Injustice' (North Atlantic, Aug.), 'Jezebel' staff writer Cheung argues that many government policies align with the interests of domestic abusers and others who commit intimate violence against women.
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A Wandering Mind: PW Talks with Hilary Leichter
Leichter’s 'Terrace Story' (Ecco, Aug.) depicts a world where physical spaces can be magically altered.
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City of Constant Violence: PW Talks with David Simon
The groundbreaking account of a year in the life of Baltimore detectives by the creator of 'The Wire' gets adapted by cartoonist Philippe Squarzoni in 'Homicide: The Graphic Novel, Part 1' (First Second, July).
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Q & A with Mitali Perkins
In National Book Award nominee Mitali Perkins’s forthcoming novel, 'Hope in the Valley,' 12-year-old aspiring poet Pandita "Pandu" Paul struggles to navigate grief and change in her rapidly gentrifying Silicon Valley neighborhood.
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