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InterviewsMessy Love: PW Talks with Ashley Herring Blake
In the romance novelist’s ‘Dream On, Ramona Riley’ (Berkley, May), an aspiring costume designer agrees to give a movie star a crash course in normalcy to help her prepare for a part.
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Interviews
Criticism Isn’t Art: PW Talks with Andrea Long Chu
In ‘Authority: Essays’ (Farrar, Straus and Giroux, Apr.), the Pulitzer Prize–winning book and TV critic reflects on the function of criticism.
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Interviews
Backing Down on Book Blurbs: PW Talks with Sean Manning
Last week, Manning announced a change to the blurbing practice at S&S, no longer requiring authors to round up their own. “I have always found this so weird,” he said. We wanted to know more.
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Profiles
Kelly Yang Takes Flight
As middle grade and YA author Kelly Yang branches out into picture books, she keeps her focus on crafting nuanced Asian American representation.
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Interviews
Beyond the Book: Claribel A. Ortega and Oz Rodriguez Introduce 'The Girl and the Robot'
When the New York Times bestselling author of Witchlings, Claribel A. Ortega, teams up with the Emmy Award–winning screenwriter and director Oz Rodriguez, the result is an action-packed middle grade story of friendship, immigration, and empowerment that aims straight for the heart. The Girl and the Robot (Disney, March 25) is a humorous, contemporary tale destined to become an instant classic for this generation. (Sponsored)
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Interviews
We Didn’t Start The Fire: PW Talks with Anders Nilsen
Prometheus’s punishment casts a long shadow over present-day global turmoil in the first volume of the Ignatz-winning cartoonist’s graphic novel saga ‘Tongues’ (Pantheon, Mar.).
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Interviews
“We’re All the Products of Housework”: PW Talks with Emily Callaci
Historian Callaci delves into the 1970s movement to demand fair pay for household labor in ‘Wages for Housework: The Feminist Fight Against Unpaid Labor’ (Seal, Mar.).
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BookLife
Indie Spotlight: January 2025
In this edition of our monthly thematic roundup of BookLife titles, we feature self-help and business books.
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How Cover Art Influences Readers
An author explores the subtleties of design.
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Profiles
Lawrence Lindell’s Life Is a (Mostly) Open Book
Known for turning intimate, often painful experiences into autobiographical comics, the cartoonist stresses they won’t share everything with readers.
