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Four Questions for Katherine Paterson
Two-time winner of both the Newbery Medal and the National Book Award, Katherine Paterson is also a longtime member of the International Board on Books for Young People, and her latest book is a spirited illustrated biography of the organization’s founder, Jella Lepman.
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Messy 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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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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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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Q & A with Debbie Levy
With the 100th anniversary of the Scopes Monkey Trial right coming up in July, we spoke with Levy about her new nonfiction book for young readers, 'A Dangerous Idea: The Scopes Monkey Trial, the Original Fight over Science in Schools.'
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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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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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“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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Q & A with Danielle Parker
PW spoke with Parker about her new YA romance, 'Love on Paper,' her success with Pitch Wars, and her experiences as a teacher.
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The Blessing of Culture Shock: PW Talks with Rick Steves
‘On the Hippie Trail’ is a portrait of the venerable travel writer as a young man in 1978, when he and his friend Gene Openshaw ventured overland from Istanbul to Kathmandu.
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