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Q & A with Lio Min

By Gilcy Aquino | 07/19/2022 @ 03:00PM

We spoke with music journalist Lio Min about crafting the YA debut, 'Beating Heart Baby,' and how anime influenced their story.
Finding the Time: PW Talks with James K.A. Smith

By Marc Greenawalt | 07/15/2022 @ 07:00PM

In 'How to Inhabit Time' (Brazos, Sept.), philosophy professor Smith argues that Christians must reckon with their past and consider how history informs faith.
The Real Regency: PW Talks with Vanessa Riley

By Suzanne Fox | 07/15/2022 @ 07:00PM

Lady Worthing, the multiracial heroine of Riley’s series launch, 'Murder in Westminster' (Kensington, Sept.), confronts mysteries of race, crime, and class in Regency London.
Q & A with Jose Pimienta

By Cheryl E. Klein | 07/14/2022 @ 03:00PM

We spoke with 'Twin Cities' author-illustrator Jose Pimienta about cultural and gender-based double standards, teenage rebellion, and finding a place to call your own.
Death Comes for the Archdeacon: PW Talks with Cora Harrison

By Lenny Picker | 07/08/2022 @ 07:00PM

In Harrison’s 'Murder in the Cathedral' (Severn, Sept.), the Reverend Mother Aquinas investigates the double poisoning of an Anglican archdeacon and a seven-year-old boy in 1920s Cork, Ireland.
Confusing for a Living: PW Talks with Liniers

By Shaenon Garrity | 07/08/2022 @ 07:00PM

Argentinian cartoonist Liniers’s internationally syndicated daily comic is collected for the first time in English in 'Macanudo: Welcome to Elsewhere' (Fantagraphics, Aug.).
Octopus’s Garden: PW Talks with Ray Nayler

By Caitlin Farley | 07/08/2022 @ 07:00PM

Nayler’s sci-fi debut, 'The Mountain in the Sea' (MCD, Oct.), hinges on the discovery of intelligent octopus life.
The Real Agatha Christie: PW Talks with Lucy Worsley

By Diane Reynolds | 07/08/2022 @ 07:00PM

In 'Agatha Christie: An Elusive Woman' (Pegasus Crime, Sept.), historian Worsley reframes the prolific detective novelist’s life.
Four Questions for Elizabeth Kilcoyne

By Liv Morris | 07/07/2022 @ 03:00PM

We spoke with Elizabeth Kilcoyne about horror, grief, and her YA debut, 'Wake the Bones.'
From Hardback to Substack: PW Talks with Mary Gaitskill

By Maya Popa | 07/05/2022 @ 05:00PM

The author of 'Bad Behavior,' 'The Mare,' and more on the freedom of an email newsletter and the horrors of the internet.
Outside of Society: PW Talks with Ernesto Mestre-Reed

By Mira Braneck | 07/01/2022 @ 07:00PM

In Cuban American author Mestre-Reed’s 'Sacrificio' (Soho, Sept.), a young man falls into a group of queer counterrevolutionaries in late-1990s Havana.
After the Untouchables: PW Talks with Daniel Stashower

By Lenny Picker | 07/01/2022 @ 07:00PM

In 'American Demon: Eliot Ness and the Hunt for America’s Jack the Ripper' (Minotaur, Sept.), Stashower explores the legendary lawman’s career after the arrest of Al Capone.
The Past Is Never Dead: PW Talks with Orlando Figes

By Suzanne Shablovsky | 07/01/2022 @ 07:00PM

In 'The Story of Russia' (Metropolitan, Sept.), Figes surveys the history of Russian leaders reimagining their nation’s past to suit their present-day political agendas.
'Games Are Another Form of Storytelling': PW Talks to Gabrielle Zevin

By Nathalie op de Beeck | 06/30/2022 @ 09:00AM

Zevin, whose 'Tomorrow, and Tomorrow, and Tomorrow' (Knopf, July) does for game design what her 2014 'The Storied Life of A. J. Fikry' did for indie bookstores, talked with 'PW' about storytelling, cultural appropriation, and more.
Q & A with Lora Senf

By Michael M. Jones | 06/28/2022 @ 03:00PM

In 'The Clackity' by debut author Lora Senf, 12-year-old Evie Von Rathe journeys into a terrifying supernatural world populated by ghosts and witches.
Four Questions for Eileen Grimes

By Nathalie op de Beeck | 06/28/2022 @ 03:00PM

Eileen Grimes, a former high school teacher and the founder of the company Loved as You Are, is sharing her book 'The Us Journal: A Parent-Child Journey of Love and Discovery' with children and caregives in Uvalde, Tex., to help families process the recent school shooting.
Spring 2022 Flying Starts: Chioma Ebinama

By Erica Wetter | 06/24/2022 @ 07:00PM

The last year has been filled with milestones for Nigerian American illustrator and fine artist Chioma Ebinama.
Spring 2022 Flying Starts: Andrew Joseph White

By C.K. Stewart | 06/24/2022 @ 07:00PM

Andrew Joseph White has been writing since before he could write; that passion blossomed into a goal to finish a full-length book at an early age, finally leading to the release of his debut novel, 'Hell Followed with Us,' this month.
Spring 2022 Flying Starts: Julian Randall

By Pamela Brill | 06/24/2022 @ 07:00PM

Twenty years in the making, 'Pilar Ramirez and the Escape from Zafa' marks Julian Randall’s middle grade debut with the first in a series that meshes historical elements of the 1950s Trujillo dictatorship with Dominican mythology.
Spring 2022 Flying Starts: Judy Lin

By Iyana Jones | 06/24/2022 @ 07:00PM

Debut author Judy Lin has harbored a love of mythological worlds and magic since she was a child, browsing the aisles in Taiwan bookstores, always gravitating toward Japanese and Celtic folklore.

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