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WI2026: PW Talks with Min Jin Lee

by Claire Kirch | 02/06/2026 @ 07:00PM

The Korean American novelist continues to explore the Korean diaspora in her new book.
WI2026: PW Talks with Xochitl Gonzalez

By Nathalie op de Beeck | 02/06/2026 @ 07:00PM

The author puts a 21st-century Brookyn spin on ‘The Great Gatsby.’
WI2026: PW Talks with Soman Chainani

By Nathalie op de Beeck | 02/06/2026 @ 07:00PM

In a near-future novel by the author of the School for Good and Evil series, a teen’s viral plea rockets him to the nation’s highest office.
WI2026: PW Talks with Isaac Fitzgerald

By Ed Nawotka | 02/06/2026 @ 07:00PM

Author’s second memoir explores the life and legend of Johnny Appleseed.
Childhood, Interrupted: PW Talks with Hannah Thurman

By Margaret Quamme | 02/06/2026 @ 07:00PM

The author’s debut novel, ‘Mercy Hill’ (Doubleday, Apr.), follows four sisters who grow up on the grounds of a state mental institution in North Carolina.
Out of Africa: PW Talks with Melvin Gibbs

By William Boisvert | 02/06/2026 @ 07:00PM

In ‘How Black Music Took Over the World’ (Basic, Apr.), composer and bassist Gibbs charts the spread of African rhythms around the globe and across musical genres.
Stories of Empowerment: PW Talks with Niki Théron

By Ed Nawotka | 02/06/2026 @ 07:00PM

The Frankfurt Book Fair’s senior manager of international projects and film is gearing up for this year’s Books at Berlinale, a collaboration between Frankfurt and the Berlin Film Festival where agents pitch books to film producers, on February 16.
WI2026: PW Talks with Derrick Palmer

By Sam Spratford | 02/06/2026 @ 07:00PM

Amazon Labor Union’s cofounder spills some tea on the corporate behemoth.
Four Questions with Shannon J. Spann

By Iyana Jones | 02/05/2026 @ 03:00PM

We spoke with Shannon J. Spann about her YA fantasy debut, 'A Stage Set for Villains,' her theater roots, and facing a world with an imperfect moral compass.
Four Questions for Sara Pennypacker

By Krystyna Poray Goddu | 02/03/2026 @ 03:00PM

After more than two dozen middle grade and picture books, Sara Pennypacker has written her first work of historical fiction for children, 'The Lions' Run.'
Magical Thinking: PW Talks with Anna Badkhen

By Jasmina Kelemen | 01/30/2026 @ 07:00PM

In ‘To See Beyond’ (Bellevue Literary, Apr.), the former war correspondent examines how humanity processes despair and finds hope amid conflict and climate catastrophe.
Mind Games: PW Talks with Lucy Ashe

By Vicki Borah Bloom | 01/30/2026 @ 07:00PM

The British novelist’s third thriller, The Model Patient (Union Square, Apr.), explores the fraught dynamic between a young wife and her therapist in 1960s London.
Four Questions for Kelly Quindlen

By Amanda Ramirez | 01/29/2026 @ 03:00PM

Young adult romance novel 'Her Name in the Sky' by Kelly Quindlen gets a traditional release 12 years after its self-publication in 2014; in a conversation with PW, Quindlen spoke about revisiting her debut and how it ties into her forthcoming novel 'This Must Be the Place.'
The Quixotic Quest to Define Color Words: PW Talks with Kory Stamper

By Tori Telfer | 01/23/2026 @ 07:00PM

Lexicographer Kory Stamper’s ‘True Color’ (Knopf, Mar.) profiles early-20th-century scientists Margaret and I.H. Godlove, who defined colors for Merriam-Webster.
Brazil Is What I Am: PW Talks with Marcello Quintanilha

By Christopher Burkhalter | 01/23/2026 @ 07:00PM

A disastrous fishing trip in 1950s Guanabara Bay tests the bond between friends in the Brazilian cartoonist’s ‘The Lights of Niterói’ (Fantagraphics, Mar.).
Four Questions for L.S. Stratton

By Erika Hardison | 01/22/2026 @ 03:00PM

PW spoke with L.S. Stratton about her career as a crime reporter and how that impacts her debut YA novel, 'Sundown Girls,' which blends historical happenings and genre-bending horror.
In Conversation: Jen Bryant, Rebecca Donnelly, and Lindsay H. Metcalf on Eunice Newton Foote

| 01/21/2026 @ 03:00PM

This season, no fewer than three books introduce young readers to the life and work of Eunice Newton Foote, the first person to discover that trapped carbon dioxide warms the Earth’s surface, a process that causes climate change. We invited authors Bryant, Donnelly, and Metcalf to discuss their research into Foote's scientific contributions.
How Change Happens: PW Talks with Benoit Denizet-Lewis

By William Boisvert | 01/16/2026 @ 07:00PM

In ‘You’ve Changed: The Promise and Price of Self-Transformation’ (Morrow, Apr.), the journalist unpacks the persistent human desire to reinvent oneself with religion, therapy, drugs, and more.

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