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The DIY Cosmic Cover Art of Sun Ra
In case his musical legacy wasn’t enough, free and spiritual jazz pioneer Sun Ra was also a visual artist, which is the subject of the new book 'Sun Ra: Art on Saturn: The Album Cover Art of Sun Ra’s Saturn Label.' We spoke with Irwin Chusid, who co-edited the book with Chris Reisman, about the visual art of Sun Ra.
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How Did Poe Die?: PW Talks with Mark Dawidziak
In 'A Mystery of Mysteries: The Death and Life of Edgar Allan Poe' (St. Martin’s, Feb.), former film and television critic Dawidziak uses Poe’s puzzling death as a hook to revisit the writer’s life.
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A Dystopian Diet: PW Talks with Chana Porter
Two very different women navigate a world where food is taboo in Porter’s 'The Thick and the Lean' (Saga, Apr.).
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Fall 2022 Flying Starts: Jas Hammonds
You could say it was written in the stars for flight attendant–turned–author Jas Hammonds to write books. Their YA debut, 'We Deserve Monuments', showcases a multigenerational story about a Black family and their roots in the small town of Burrell, Ga.
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Fall 2022 Flying Starts: Esme Symes-Smith
Born in Exeter, in the southwest of England, Esme Symes-Smith spent a great deal of time in Cornwall, which would later influence the setting of their debut novel, 'Sir Callie and the Champions of Helston', a middle grade fantasy in which a nonbinary would-be knight pushes back against gender stereotypes and restrictions.
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Fall 2022 Flying Starts: C.C. Harrington
Debut author C.C. Harrington has felt a strong draw toward animal stories since her childhood in the English countryside. Set in 1963, her middle grade novel 'Wildoak' follows two viewpoints: those of 11-year-old Maggie Stevens and snow leopard cub Rumpus.
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Fall 2022 Flying Starts: Liza Ferneyhough
“It was a drawing I did of my grandmother’s teacup,” author-illustrator Liza Ferneyhough says, recalling the image that set her on the creative path of transforming a mental catalog of multicultural family memories into her debut picture book, 'Nana, Nenek & Nina'.
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Fall 2022 Flying Starts: Skyler Schrempp
Debut author Skyler Schrempp's experience in theater helped her to home in on the voice of her historical middle grade novel, 'Three Strike Summer', about a girl whose family loses their Dust Bowl farm during the Great Depression.
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Fall 2022 Flying Starts: Zoulfa Katouh
Science and stories have always been twin threads running through Zoulfa Katouh’s life. Now a pharmacist working on cancer research and the debut author of the acclaimed novel 'As Long as the Lemon Trees Grow,' set amid the Syrian revolution, Katouh has found a way to keep both sides of her heart engaged.
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Carpe Diem: PW Talks with Jenny Odell
In 'Saving Time' (Random House, Mar.), Odell investigates alternative ways of understanding and evaluating time.
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From Pariah to Grand Master: PW Talks with Max Allan Collins and James L. Traylor
In 'Spillane: King of Pulp' (Mysterious, Feb.), Collins and Traylor deliver the first comprehensive biography of Mike Hammer creator Mickey Spillane.
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Pop Art: PW Talks with Esther Yi
In 'Y/N' (Astra House, Mar.), an American woman living in Berlin becomes obsessed with a K-pop star named Moon.
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Daylight Is No Shield: PW Talks with Katja Ivar
In 'Trouble' (Bitter Lemon, Feb.), Ivar’s third outing for Hella Mauzer, set in the early 1950s, the Finnish PI seeks the truth about some deaths in her family’s past.
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Four Questions for LaLa Thomas
LaLa Thomas's debut YA novel '16 & Pregnant,' inspired by the MTV reality show of the same name, highlights one of the issues she saw as a middle school and high school educator in Nevada for 10 years: teenage pregnancy.
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Four Questions for Leonard S. Marcus
We spoke with children's literature historian Leonard S. Marcus about his new middle grade book, 'Mr. Lincoln Sits for His Portrait,' and his lifelong fascination with America's 16th president.
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Sarabande-ing Together: PW Talks with Sarah Gorham and Kristen Renee Miller
We spoke with the founder of Sarabande Books about her years running the press and the lessons she learned during and from them, and with her successor about her ambitions for the press in the future.
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Q & A with James Klise
As a teacher librarian at CICS Northtown Academy in Chicago, and an Edgar and Stonewall Honor Award-winning YA author, Klise is passionate about getting the right books into the right hands at the right time.
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Basketball Diplomacy: PW Talks with Kendrick Perkins
In 'The Education of Kendrick Perkins' (St. Martin’s, Feb.), the NBA champion and ESPN broadcaster considers the crossroads of sports and politics.
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The World Will End in Ice: PW Talks with Tom Rob Smith
In 'Cold People' (Scribner, Feb.), Smith imagines a future in which significant gene manipulation may be the only way for humanity to survive.
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To Mother with Love: PW Talks with Barbara Chase-Riboud
The amazing life of 83 year-old Barbara Chase-Riboud, renowned sculptor, bestselling historical novelist, and celebrated poet, is recounted in her new book,' I Always Knew: A Memoir,' out now from Princeton University Press.
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