Rufi Thorpe Goes to the Mat
The author’s latest novel, Margo’s Got Money Troubles, draws inspiration from OnlyFans, Wonder Woman, and World Wrestling Entertainment.
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Fake People, Real Obligations: PW Talks with Melissa B. Jacoby
In Unjust Debts, Jacoby explains how the powerful use bankruptcy to evade accountability. Read the Interview
This Must Be the Place: PW Talks with Daniel Saldaña París
For the essays in Planes Flying Over a Monster, Daniel Saldaña París travels from Montreal to Mexico City to explore how place shapes the self.
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Andrew O’Hagan Weaponizes Fiction
For the Scottish novelist and journalist, the novel is a way to fight political misinformation, conspiracy theories, and outright lies.
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Communication Breakdown: PW Talks with John Vercher
In Vercher’s Devil Is Fine, a Black writer examines his complex relationship with his late son while struggling to publish his second novel on his own terms.
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Matt Cain Is Breaking the Mold
British journalist Matt Cain returns with a comedy in the vein of The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel about a gay divorcé’s late-in-life drag makeover.
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BookLifeIndie Spotlight: End of April 2024
In this edition of Indie Spotlight, we feature humor and satire.
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Profiles
Chris Whitaker’s Survivor Stories
The novelist traded a finance career to pursue fiction. It just may have saved his life.
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Interviews
The Talented Mrs. Ripley: PW Talks with Lynne and Valerie Constantine
Writing under a joint pseudonym, sisters Lynne and Val Constantine follow up their cunning bestseller The Last Mrs. Parrish with The Next Mrs. Parrish, in which the prior book’s wealthy manipulators face a ghost from the past.
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Paradise Found: PW Talks with Olivia Laing
In The Garden Against Time (Norton, June), Laing meditates on how gardens reveal the values of the societies that create them.
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Interviews
The Latest Unicorn: Scholastic Adapts Manga for the Middle Grade
Manga for readers 12 and under is still a small category in the U.S., so it’s big news that Scholastic will begin publishing manga under its Graphix imprint. First up: an updated take on Osamu Tezuka’s Unico series, first published in 1976.
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Interviews
Close-Up on: Turner Classic Movies at 10
For a decade, Running Press has partnered with Turner Classic Movies to bring readers an expansive collection of titles about Hollywood film history and Hollywood films—whether it’s a cherished favorite or an overlooked on-screen gem. Running Press editorial director Cindy Sipala spoke with PW about the ongoing collaboration, the many ways Running Press is fostering a love for classic cinema with new and existing film buffs, and future endeavors to engage fan communities.
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Profiles
Andrew O’Hagan Weaponizes Fiction
For the Scottish novelist and journalist, the novel is a way to fight political misinformation, conspiracy theories, and outright lies.
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Interviews
Fake People, Real Obligations: PW Talks with Melissa B. Jacoby
In Unjust Debts (New Press, June), Jacoby explains how the powerful use bankruptcy to evade accountability.
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Interviews
Field Study: PW Talks with David Lapp
Lapp’s graphic memoir 'The Field' (Conundrum, May) looks back on a 1970s summer with bittersweet nostalgia.
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Beyond the Book: Carina Maggar's 'Countless Sleepless Nights'
Copywriter and graphic designer Carina Maggar, whose second book, Countless Sleepless Nights: A Collection of Coming-Out Stories (Laurence King Publishing), releases in March, spoke with PW about the endless nature of her own coming-out, why it was paramount that her book include stories from people from around the globe, and the importance of her subjects’ anonymity. (Sponsored)
