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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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In Conversation: Isabel Wilkerson and Beverly Horowitz
We asked Pulitzer Prize–winning writer Isabel Wilkerson and her editor Beverly Horowitz to discuss the process of adapting Wilkerson's adult bestseller 'Caste' for young readers, and how high school is a microcosm of social hierarchies.
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Who’s Killing the Inquisitors?: PW Talks with Stephen O’Shea
In 'The Sorcerer and the Assassin' (Brash, Feb.), O’Shea, an expert on 13th-century France, crafts a whodunit centered on the Catholic church’s crackdown on the Cathars.
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A Low-Key Radical Wedding: PW Talks with Rob Kirby
Kirby muses on love in midlife and gay marriage in his graphic memoir, 'Marry Me a Little' (Graphic Mundi, Feb.).
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Climate Change and the Church: PW Talks with Kyle Meyaard-Schaap
In 'Following Jesus in a Warming World' (IVP, Feb.), Meyaard-Schaap, vice president of the Evangelical Environmental Network, talks about Christian perspectives on climate change.
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Space Travel for Beginners: PW Talks with Philip Plait
In 'Under Alien Skies: A Sightseer’s Guide to the Universe' (Norton, Apr.), astronomer Plait explores what readers would encounter elsewhere in the cosmos.
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I See, Therefore You Are: PW Talks with Robert Lanza and Nancy Kress
Scientist Lanza conveys his theory that “the universe springs from life, not the other way around” in 'Observer' (Story Plant, Jan.), a thriller coauthored with Kress.
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Finding Gifts in a Childless Life: PW Talks with Elizabeth Felicetti
PW talks with Rev. Elizabeth Felicetti about women's lives 'bursting with creativity and influence.'
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Hoop Activism: PW Talks with Theresa Runstedtler
In 'Black Ball' (Bold Type, Mar.), historian Runstedtler explores the turbulent atmosphere of 1970s pro basketball.
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Witchy Women: PW Talks with Celia Bell
In Bell’s 'The Disenchantment' (Pantheon, May), two 17th-century French noblewomen lovers get caught up in anti-witch hysteria.
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Chronicle of Deaths Foretold: PW Talks with Masahiro Imamura
In Imamura’s 'Death Within the Evil Eye' (Locked Room International, Jan.), university students Yuzuru Hamura and Hiruko Kenzali must crack a seemingly impossible mystery.
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40 Years of Love and Rockets: PW Talks with Gilbert and Jaime
To mark the 40th anniversary of a groundbreaking literary comics series, Fantagraphics Books is releasing 'Love and Rockets: The First 50 ' by the cartooning brothers Gilbert and Jaime Hernandez, a boxed eight-volume hardcover set collecting the series’ first 50 issues.