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The Rhythm of Friendship: PW Talks with Hua Hsu
In 'Stay True' (Doubleday, Sept.), 'New Yorker' staff writer Hsu recounts his experience growing up in 1990s California as the son of Taiwanese immigrants, and the personal reckoning that came after the death of a close friend.
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Who Was Hester Prynne?: PW Talks with Laurie Lico Albanese
In 'Hester' (St Martin’s, Aug.), Albanese imagines a character who inspired Nathaniel Hawthorne’s 'The Scarlet Letter.'
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Spy vs. Spy: PW Talks with Ava Glass
Glass, the pseudonym of Christi Daugherty (the YA Night School thrillers), introduces a novice British spy, Emma Makepeace, in 'Alias Emma' (Bantam, Aug.).
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The Language of the Body: PW Talks with Stephanie McCarter
In her forthcoming translation of Ovid’s 'Metamorphoses' (Penguin Classics, Sept.), classicist McCarter renders the poet’s concern with questions of power, violence, and gender intelligible to a contemporary audience.
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Q & A with Kiersten White
Bestselling YA author Kiersten White spoke with us about the first installment of her debut middle grade Sinister Summer series, 'Wretched Waterpark.'
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Muchness in 14 Lines: PW Talks to Diane Seuss
We spoke with the most recent winner of the Pulitzer Prize in Poetry about her award-winning volume 'frank: sonnets,' the sheer range of the sonnet form, and more.
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Wildest Imagination: PW Talks with Ed Yong
In 'An Immense World: How Animal Senses Reveal the Hidden Realms Around Us' (Random House, July), journalist Yong challenges readers to imagine the sensory worlds of animals.
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Murder and Matrimony: PW Talks with Alan Gordon
Writing as Allison Montclair, defense attorney, librettist, and novelist Gordon provides another murder for the proprietors of the Right Sort Marriage Bureau to solve in 'The Unkempt Woman' (Minotaur, July).
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Weird, Perverse Fun: PW Talks with Nick Drnaso
In 'Acting Class' (Drawn & Quarterly, Aug.), Drnaso follows a group of characters who join an acting class, through which their understanding of themselves— as well as the limits of reality—gets tested.
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Big Love: PW Talks with Jodie Slaughter
Slaughter's 'Bet on It' (Griffin, July) begins with a bingo-based sex pact and ends with two broken souls finding each other and themselves.
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Q & A with Derrick Barnes
In 'The Queen of Kindergarten,' Derrick Barnes returns to the first day of school in this follow-up to his bestselling picture book, 'The King of Kindergarten,' both illustrated by long-time collaborator Vanessa Brantley-Newton.
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Q & A with Kendall Kulper
Kendall Kulper spoke with PW about her new YA novel, ' Murder for the Modern Girl,' and writing historical fantasy.
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Q & A with Lisa Fipps
PW spoke with author and library marketing director Lisa Fipps about how her multiple roles intersect, and why 'Starfish' is the book she had to write.
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False Promises: PW Talks with Rina Raphael
The author of 'The Gospel of Wellness' (Holt, Sept.) spoke with 'PW' about gender, the commodification of health, and America’s long history of snake oil salespeople.
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Learning How to Feel: PW Talks with Batja Mesquita
In 'Between Us' (Norton, July), psychology professor Mesquita explores the social origins of emotions.
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A Lie Foretold: PW Talks with Jonathan Lemire
In 'The Big Lie: Election Chaos, Political Opportunism, and the State of American Politics After 2020' (Flatiron, July), journalist Lemire examines the roots and repercussions of Donald Trump’s false claims about the 2020 election.
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Roots of Revolution: PW Talks with Kelly Lytle Hernández
MacArthur Fellow Kelly Lytle Hernández, author of 'Bad Mexicans: Race, Empire, and Revolution in the Borderlands' (Norton), spoke with 'PW' about the book, the absence of adequate historical education on U.S.-Mexican relations in America, and more.
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Q & A with Julio Torres
In his first picture book, 'I Want to Be a Vase' (Atheneum), 'SNL' writer and comedian Julio Torres's protagonist is a bathroom plunger who declares it is leaving its job to become "a vessel for beauty."
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In on the Joke: PW Talks with Sona Movsesian
Movsesian, longtime assistant to Conan O’Brien, takes a riotous look back at her 13 years working with the legendary late-night host, while sharing the often hilarious lessons she learned along the way in 'The World’s Worst Assistant' (Plume, July).
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Music of the Spheres: PW Talks with Alex White
A musician teams up with an extraterrestrial robot to save humanity in 'White’s August Kitko and the Mechas from Space' (Orbit, July).
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