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For the Kids: Spotlight on Vince Cleghorne
With books like I Want to Be a Dino-Kid, Mich & Moose, Bug Soup, Smiles, and Hoo’s There?, an author and illustrator looks to inspire children to fall in love with reading. (Sponsored)
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A Legacy of Flavors: PW Talks with Christine Sahadi Whelan
Whelan, co-owner of the James Beard Award–winning market Sahadi’s, showcases the Middle East’s vibrant staples in 'Flavors of the Sun' (Chronicle, Sept.).
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An Unchaining Melody: PW Talks with Juliet Marillier
The warrior bards of Swan Island find a missing prince and lift an ancient curse in Marillier’s 'A Song of Flight' (Ace, Sept.).
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Fatal Flight: PW Talks with Rory Clements
In Clements’s 'A Prince and a Spy' (Pegasus Crime, Sept.), operative Tom Wilder probes the suspicious death of a British royal during WWII.
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A Mouthful of Air: PW Talks with Amy Koppelman
Almost 20 years after Two Dollar Radio published Amy Koppelman's debut novel about a young woman suffering from postpartum depression, the press is reissuing it in time for the release of the film adaptation.
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Good News: PW Talks with Philip Yancey
Yancey’s 'Where the Light Fell' (Convergent, Oct.) digs up his roots in the fundamentalist South in the 1950s and ’60s.
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Before the Dinosaurs: PW Talks with Elsa Panciroli
In 'Beasts Before Us' (Bloomsbury Sigma, Sept.), paleontologist Panciroli sheds light on discoveries in evolution.
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Bloodied Mary: PW Talks with Denise Mina
In 'Rizzio' (Pegasus Crime, Sept.), Mina dramatizes the Tudor-era assassination of David Rizzio, the personal secretary of Mary, Queen of Scots.
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Q & A with Elizabeth Lim
We spoke with Elizabeth Lim about her new YA novel, ‘Six Crimson Cranes,’ a fairy tale retelling set in the world of her Blood of Stars duology.
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It’s Complicated: PW Talks with Amia Srinivasan
In 'The Right to Sex' (Farrar, Straus and Giroux, Sept.), philosopher Srinivasan brings depth and nuance to the issues facing feminism today.
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The Silence You Don’t Know: PW Talks with Jon McGregor
McGregor’s harrowing 'Lean Fall Stand' (Catapult, Sept.) tells a story of survival and recovery in which research technician Robert Wright suffers a stroke in Antarctica and loses his ability to speak.
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Haunted House: PW Talks with Stuart Neville
In Neville’s 'The House of Ashes' (Soho Crime, Sept.), two trapped and traumatized women, Sara Keane and Mary Jackson, discover terrifying links that bind them to a 120-year-old house in Belfast.
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Advocacy, Inclusion, and Options: Q & A with ALSC President Lucia M. Gonzalez
Lucia M. Gonzalez, director of the North Miami (Fla.) Public Library and award-winning author, will begin her term as president of the Association for Library Service to Children at the close of the ALA annual conference, after a very nontraditional, pandemic-clouded year.
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Q & A with Tammi Sauer
We spoke with picture book author Tammi Sauer about the influence that her library and classroom experience has had on her writing, the publication of her 30th picture book, and more.
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From the Streets to the Concert Hall: PW Talks with Richard Antoine White
In 'I’m Possible' (Flatiron, Oct.), White recalls his rise from homelessness to becoming principal tubist of the New Mexico Philharmonic.
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Q & A with Rukhsanna Guidroz
We spoke with author Rukhsanna Guidroz about her first middle-grade novel, 'Samira Surfs,' inspired by the real-life stories of surfer girls in southern Bangladesh who make waves and go against the cultural tide.
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Four Questions for Nidhi Chanani
We spoke with illustrator and writer Nidhi Chanani about her second graphic novel for young readers, 'Jukebox,' about a girl who travels to important moments in music history to find her music obsessed dad after his disappearance.
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Fast Times at Calabasas High: PW Talks with Via Bleidner
In 'If You Lived Here You’d Be Famous by Now' (Flatiron, Aug.), Bleidner brings her Gen Z perspective to growing up among California’s elite.
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Wild Bodies: PW Talks with Aliya Whiteley
The genre-bending stories in Whiteley’s 'From the Neck Up' (Titan, Sept.) probe human connection, the natural world, and the strangeness of having a body.
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High Plains Hero: PW Talks with Taylor Moore
In former CIA agent Moore’s 'Down Range' (Morrow, Aug.), DEA agent Garrett Kohl brings an Afghan boy home to the Texas Panhandle.