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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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Q & A with Elise Bryant
We spoke with Elise Bryant continuing to expand on her interconnected universe of stories in her new YA romance, 'Reggie and Delilah's Year of Falling.'
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In Conversation: Fiona Robinson and C.E. Winters
Two new picture book biographies spotlight the life and legacy of Lotte Reiniger (1899–1981), a German film director and animator best known for creating the oldest surviving animated movie: 'The Adventures of Prince Achmed,' released in 1926.
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Q & A with Emma Bland Smith
We spoke with librarian and picture book author Emma Bland Smith about how she discovers the stories she writes, the ways her library work and writing are intertwined, and how she hopes her books instill the value of perseverance.
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The Heart of the Story: PW Talks with Julie Flett
Julie Flett discusses her next illustration project, 'Just Like Grandma' by Kim Rogers, preserving and sharing the Cree language, and the universal theme of the importance of elders.
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Where Does Creativity Come From?: PW Talks with Hilde Østby
In 'The Key to Creativity' (Greystone, Apr.), Østby investigates the myths and mysteries of this little-understood skill.
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Go Viral or Go Home: PW Talks with Ben Smith
In 'Traffic' (Penguin Press, May), Smith, former 'BuzzFeed News' editor-in-chief and 'New York Times' media columnist, explores the history of online media.
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Eclipsed by Death: PW Talks with Harini Nagendra
In 'Murder Under a Red Moon' (Pegasus Crime, Mar.), Nagendra’s sleuth, Kaveri Murthy, is back at it in colonial India.
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Q & A with Krystal Marquis
Krystal Marquis’s debut YA novel is inspired by the real life of C.R. Patterson, a Black man who escaped slavery to found his own carriage company and elevate himself and his family to new heights in Ohio society.
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