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Distant Socializing: PW Talks with Jenn Bane and Trin Garritano

By Seth Satterlee | 10/02/2020 @ 07:00PM

In 'Friendshipping' (Workman, Dec.) podcasters Bane and Garritano divulge hard-won, realistic advice on making and keeping friends.
Dancing with Dogs: PW Talks with Kelly Conaboy

By Jon N. Jeffryes | 10/02/2020 @ 07:00PM

In 'The Particulars of Peter' (Grand Central, Dec.), Conaboy explores the world of dog ownership.
Rick Riordan on Wrapping Up His Trials of Apollo Series

By Michael M. Jones | 10/01/2020 @ 04:00PM

In 'The Tower of Nero,' the fifth and final book in the Trials of Apollo series, Rick Riordan brings his epic saga, which began in 2005 with 'The Lightning Thief,' to a conclusion—at least for now.
Four Questions for Jerry Craft

By Brigid Alverson | 10/01/2020 @ 03:00PM

Jerry Craft's middle-grade graphic novel 'New Kid' broke new ground as the first graphic novel to win the Newbery Medal; now Craft is back with a companion story, 'Class Act.'
Four Questions for Sherri Duskey Rinker

By Sally Lodge | 09/29/2020 @ 03:00PM

We spoke with 'Goodnight, Goodnight, Construction Site' author Sherri Duskey Rinker about 'Revver the Speedway Squirrel,' her middle grade debut.
Cowboy Charming: PW Talks with Rebekah Weatherspoon

By Carole V. Bell | 09/25/2020 @ 07:00PM

With 'If the Boot Fits' (Dafina, Nov.), Weatherspoon delivers a Black Cinderella romance between struggling screenwriter Amanda and cowboy turned movie star Sam.
Big Brother Is Here: PW Talks with Jon Fasman

By Lisa Butts | 09/25/2020 @ 07:00PM

In 'We See It All' (PublicAffairs, Oct.), journalist Fasman explores how surveillance technologies imperil civil liberties.
Snoop Sisters: PW Talks with Bella Ellis

By Lenny Picker | 09/25/2020 @ 07:00PM

Ellis imagines Anne, Emily, and Charlotte Brontë as detectives in 'The Diabolical Bones' (Berkley, Feb.).
Cancer Gets Complicated: PW Talks with Kimiko Tobimatsu

By Erika T. Wurth | 09/25/2020 @ 07:00PM

In Tobimatsu’s graphic memoir, 'Kimiko Does Cancer' (Arsenal Pulp, Nov.), the young, queer Asian-Canadian lawyer navigates a breast cancer diagnosis and the “cancer warrior” support group culture.
Q & A with Juleah del Rosario

By Patricia J. Murphy | 09/25/2020 @ 03:00PM

Juleah del Rosario is an acquisitions librarian at the University of Colorado Boulder, and the author of YA novels '500 Words or Less' and 'Turtle Under Ice.' By day she acquires titles and other materials for students and professors, and by night (and weekends) she writes titles in verse for YA readers. PW spoke with del Rosario about her dual roles as a librarian and an author, the places they intersect and influence each other, and how her love of turtles surfaced in her latest novel.
Q & A with Matthew Reinhart

By Sally Lodge | 09/22/2020 @ 03:00PM

We spoke with paper engineer Matthew Reinhart about his first series of pop-ups for preschoolers, Pop Magic.
Urban, Disturbing Magical Realism: PW Talks with Ernesto Quiñonez

By Leylha Ahuile | 09/18/2020 @ 07:00PM

It is said that reality often surpasses fiction, but they are deeply intertwined in 'Taína,' Cornell University associate professor Quiñonez's coming-of-age novel that examines the forced sterilization of women in Puerto Rico that took place in both the 1930s and the 1970s.
Still Here, Still Queer: PW Talks with Francesca Ekwuyasi

By Chika Unigwe | 09/18/2020 @ 07:00PM

Ekwuyasi’s 'Butter Honey Pig Bread' (Arsenal Pulp, Dec.) explores a cursed mother’s complicated relationship with her daughters, as well as the lives of queer Nigerians.
Crime in the Countryside: PW Talks with Kjell Eriksson

By Lenny Picker | 09/18/2020 @ 07:00PM

In Eriksson’s 'The Night of Fire' (Minotaur, Nov.), retired Swedish police inspector Ann Lindell probes a fatal arson.
Four Questions for Tom Lichtenheld

By Libby Morse | 09/17/2020 @ 03:00PM

We spoke with Tom Lichtenheld about 'Moo-Moo, I Love You!,' his final book with friend Amy Krouse Rosenthal, which he completed after she died in 2017.
Q & A with Amy Timberlake

By Sally Lodge | 09/15/2020 @ 03:00PM

Newbery Honor author Amy Timberlake introduces a pair of unlikely animal roommates in her latest book, 'Skunk and Badger,' a middle-grade novel illustrated by Caldecott Medalist Jon Klassen.
Q & A with Corinne Duyvis

By Claire Kirch | 09/15/2020 @ 03:00PM

Corinne Duyvis spoke with us about her new YA novel, 'The Art of Saving the World,' LGBTQIA+ representation, and the impact of the #OwnVoices hashtag that she coined five years ago.
Trailblazing, Warts and All: PW Talks with Janice P. Nimura

By Misty Urban | 09/11/2020 @ 07:00PM

Nimura chronicles the lives of medical pioneers Emily and Elizabeth Blackwell in 'The Doctors Blackwell' (Norton, Oct.)
In Conversation: Andrea Davis Pinkney and Brian Pinkney

| 09/10/2020 @ 04:00PM

We asked husband-and-wife collaborators Andrea Davis Pinkney and Brian Pinkney to interview each other about their latest book, 'Loretta Little Looks Back: Three Voices Go Tell It,' the cross-generational story of a Black family.
In the Presence of History: PW talks with P. Djèlí Clark

By Ed Simon | 09/04/2020 @ 07:00PM

Though the KKK members of ‘Ring Shout’ are literal demons, Clark notes, ‘the actual Klan doesn’t need to be composed of otherworldly creatures to be inhuman.’

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