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Four Questions for Jeff Kinney
PW spoke with Kinney about his beloved and bestselling Diary of a Wimpy Kid series, which is now celebrating 10 years in print.
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Health & Fitness 2017: Leslie Jamison on Creativity in Recovery
Leslie Jamison's new book, 'The Recovering' (Little, Brown, Apr. 2018), documents her years-long struggle with alcohol addiction and meditates on how others, especially fellow writers, have navigated dependence.
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Health & Fitness 2017: Austerity Measures
In 'The Economists’ Diet' (Touchstone, Jan. 2018), Rob Barnett and Christopher Payne present a guide to weight loss that reimagines food as “supply” and hunger as “scarcity,” gustatory restraint as “austerity” and careful eating as “budgeting.”
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Bringing It Home: 'PW' Talks with A.J. Tata
Tata, a retired brigadier general, imagines a terrorist plot that targets America’s top military leadership in 'Direct Fire' (Kensington, Jan.).
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Q & A with Barbara Lehman
PW spoke Lehman about wordless books, how children react to her stories, and her sequel to 'The Red Book.'
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It Was the State: 'PW' Talks with John Gibler
In 'I Couldn’t Even Imagine That They Would Kill Us: An Oral History of the Attacks Against the Students of Ayotzinapa' (City Lights, Nov.), journalist Gibler reconstructs the events of Sept. 26, 2014, in Iguala, Mexico, that left six people dead and 43 students missing.
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Four Questions for Jason Segel and Kirsten Miller
We spoke with the Nightmares! co-authors about their forthcoming YA collaboration, 'Otherworld.'
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Miami Book Fair 2017: The Complexities of Adolescent Friendship: 'PW' Talks with Claire Messud
Claire Messud, the author of the acclaimed 'The Emperor’s Children,' talks about the roots of her newest novel, 'The Burning Girl,' a bracing, hypnotic coming-of-age story about the bond of best friends.
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Spinning from Ice to Love: 'PW' Talks with Tillie Walden
Tillie Walden's much anticipated new graphic memoir 'Spinning,' tells the story of her journey from competitive figure skater to comics author and discusses what it was like to come out as gay.
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Miami Book Fair 2017: A Love Letter To Music and Ghana: 'PW' Talks with Kwame Alexander
The Newbery Medal– and Coretta Scott King Honor Award–winner talks about building a library in Ghana and his latest book, 'Solo.'
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Miami Book Fair 2017: Jim Lahey's 'Sullivan Street' Tips
The owner of the famed Sullivan Street Bakery—a.k.a. the church of bread—answers questions from readers with tips from his new cookbook, 'The Sullivan Street Bakery Cookbook.'
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Miami Book Fair 2017: Lidia Bastianich Celebrates the Italian Way
The chef, restaurateur, and cookbook author shares secrets from her new cookbook, 'Lidia’s Celebrate Like an Italian: 220 Foolproof Recipes That Make Every Meal a Party,' which was written with her daughter, Tanya Bastianich Manuali.
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Blood on the Snow: 'PW' Talks with Ragnar Jónasson
Icelandic policeman Ari Thór Arason investigates the murder of his superior in Jónasson’s 'Nightblind' (Minotaur, Dec.).
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Journalism Today: 'PW' Talks with Bob Schieffer
In 'Overload: Finding the Truth in Today’s Deluge of News' (Roman & Littlefield, Oct.), veteran reporter Schieffer examines the current state of news media.
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Four Questions for Katherine Paterson
The Newbery Medalist discusses her first new novel in more than five years, 'My Brigadista Year.'
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Q & A with Emily Winfield Martin
PW spoke with the author-illustrator about venturing into middle-grade territory in her forthcoming fairytale retelling, 'Snow & Rose.'
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Texas Book Festival 2017: Short Lives and Growing Pains - PW Talks to Jeffrey Eugenides and Claire Messud
'Fresh Complain't is Pulitzer-winner Jeffrey Eugenides's first short story collection. Claire Messud's new novel, 'The Burning Girl,' follows Julia and Cassie, two teenagers from a Massachusetts town who have been inseparable since early childhood, but drift apart as they come-of-age. The authors talked to us about the challenges and rewards of short fiction and writing younger characters, as well as what it means to write literature in these crazy times.
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Texas Book Festival 2017: Rewriting History - PW Talks to Cristina Garcia and Min Jin Lee
Lately, it can feel like there are far too many current events for anyone to process. Looking to the past is one antidote. Historical fiction has the power to grant us a reprieve from the present while also illuminating the contemporary world. We asked Cristina Garcia and Min Jin Lee about what it takes to rewrite history.
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Texas Book Festival 2017: Real News - PW Talks with Carino Chocano, Angela J. Davis, and Kevin Young
Whatever your politics, it's been a crazy year. There are endless questions to ask and too few clear answers. Perhaps that makes this a good time to be a nonfiction writer. We talked to three authors whose new books investigate sexism in Hollywood, the unjust treatment of black men by police, and the history and seductiveness of fake news. They are asking some of the true questions to which we crave true answers.