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An Imperfect Hero: PW Talks with Ian K. Smith
In Smith’s 'The Unspoken' (Thomas & Mercer, Oct.), society matron Violet Gerrigan hires Chicago PI Ashe Cayne to find her missing daughter.
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Seeing Through Bias: PW Talks with Pamela Fuller
In 'The Leader’s Guide to Unconscious Bias' (Simon & Schuster, Oct.), Fuller discusses how business leaders who work past their own biases can foster more diverse company cultures.
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In Conversation: Saadia Faruqi and Laura Shovan
We asked co-authors Saadia Faruqi and Laura Shovan to interview each other about their new middle-grade novel, 'A Place at the Table,' a celebration of food and friendship
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Q & A with Kim Johnson
We spoke with Kim Johnson about how her work as an activist influenced her debut YA novel, 'This Is My America.'
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OK Boomer, Let's Read: PW Talks with Jill Filipovic
The author of 'OK Boomer, Let's Talk,' which will be published in August by Atria, spoke with PW about what she learned while researching the book, what baby boomers can learn from millennials, and more.
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Travel Journalism Begins at Home: PW Talks with Bill Hayes
Hayes discusses his latest book of photography, ‘How We Live Now’ (Bloomsbury, Aug.), which captures New York City under lockdown.
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Anxious Authority: PW Talks with Jeremy Leon Hance
In ‘Baggage’ (HCI, Oct.), environmental journalist Hance conveys what it’s like to travel with severe anxiety and OCD.
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The World of Malcolm X: PW Talks with Tamara Payne
Payne completed her father’s biography of Malcolm X, The Dead Are Arising (Liveright, Sept.), after his death in 2018.
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What Isn’t Said: PW Talks with Katharina Volckmer
Volckmer’s debut novel, The Appointment (Avid Reader, Sept.), satirizes the German struggle to overcome the atrocities of the country’s past.
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Getting It Together: PW Talks with Sophie Yanow
Yanow chronicles youthful European hitchhiking escapades
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Murder in the Peace Corps: PW Talks with Peter H. Reid
In Every Hill a Burial Place: The Peace Corps Murder Trial in East Africa (Univ. of Kentucky, Sept.), Reid revisits a 1966 murder in Tanzania that rocked the program.
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A Changing Neighborhood: PW Talks with Alyssa Cole
In Cole’s 'When No One Is Watching' (Morrow, Sept.), gentrification of a Brooklyn neighborhood pushes out the longtime Black residents, many of whom disappear without a trace.
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The Best Seat in the House: PW Talks with Michael Riedel
In 'Singular Sensation' (Avid Reader, Nov.), theater columnist Riedel details the history of Broadway in the 1990s.
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Q & A with Sarah Crossan
We spoke with Sarah Crossan, who has just ended her term as Ireland’s Children's Laureate, about her new YA novel-in-verse, 'Being Toffee.'
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Obituary: Joanna Cole
Children's book author Joanna Cole, widely recognized for her nonfiction, and especially for the popular Magic School Bus series, died on July 12 of idiopathic pulmonary fibrosis in Sioux City, Ia.; she was 75.
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Beyond Kindness: PW Talks with Rebekah Taussig
With her memoir ‘Sitting Pretty’ (HarperOne, Aug.), the disability advocate and educator hopes to help readers “think about bodies differently.”
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Ancient Wisdom: PW Talks with Ryan Holiday and Stephen Hanselman
Holiday and Hanselman’s 'Lives of Stoics' (Portfolio, Sept) profiles Stoic philosophers to consider different paths to living a good life.
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When Love Just Isn’t Enough: PW Talks with Charlot Kristensen
Dublin artist Kristensen’s debut graphic novel, 'What We Don’t Talk About' (Avery Hill, Sept.), focuses on an uncomfortable weekend trip taken by Farai and Adam, a young interracial couple.
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The Dangers of Duality: PW Talks with Rachel Howzell Hall
In Hall’s 'And Now She’s Gone' (Forge, Sept.), rookie detective Gray Sykes tries to find out what happened to a missing woman who calls herself Isabel Lincoln.
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Four Questions for Lisa Moore Ramée
Ramée spoke with PW about the inspiration for her new book, 'Something to Say.'