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Q & A with James L. Swanson

By Sally Lodge | 12/21/2017 @ 03:00PM

PW spoke with the author of 'Chasing King’s Killer' about his interest in sparking kids’ love of history.
In Conversation: Tim Federle and Marla Frazee

| 12/19/2017 @ 04:00PM

Authors Federle and Frazee discuss seeing their picture book adaptations on the big screen.
When Siddartha Met Sigmund: 'PW' Talks with Mark Epstein

By John Maher | 12/15/2017 @ 07:00PM

Psychiatrist Mark Epstein’s 'Advice Not Given: A Guide to Getting Over Yourself' (Penguin Press, Jan. 2018) explores the connection between Buddhism and psychotherapy.
Social Worker with a Gun: 'PW' Talks with Kent Anderson

By Patrick Millikin | 12/15/2017 @ 07:00PM

Anderson’s 'Green Sun' (Mulholland, Feb.) is set in the early 1980s, and the novel’s cop hero, Hanson, works the night shift patrolling the streets of East Oakland, Calif., alone in his squad car.
Questioning the Conquest: 'PW' Talks with Matthew Restall

By Divya Subramanian | 12/08/2017 @ 07:00PM

Historian Restall challenges established interpretations of the encounter between Montezuma and Hernando Cortés in 'When Montezuma Met Cortés' (Ecco, Jan.).
The Zen of Frugality: PW Talks with Elizabeth Willard Thames

By Ellen Stark | 12/01/2017 @ 07:00PM

In ‘Meet the Frugalwoods,’ the blogger shares how she and her husband gave up the 9-to-5 for a more fulfilling life.
Four Questions for Jack White

By Matia Burnett | 11/30/2017 @ 04:00PM

PW spoke with the lead singer and guitarist for The White Stripes about adapting his song “We’re Going to Be Friends” into picture book form.
Q & A with Emma Mills

By Donna Freitas | 11/28/2017 @ 04:00PM

PW caught up with Mills in Indianapolis, where she attends graduate school, for a discussion of mean girls in books and film, and her forthcoming novel.
Ames to Please: 'PW' Talks with Jonathan Ames

By Lenny Picker | 11/24/2017 @ 07:00PM

Best known for his comic novels, Ames tries his hand at noir in 'You Were Never Here' (Vintage Crime/Black Lizard, Jan.).
Global Kids Connect 2017: Four Questions for Meera Dolasia

By Charlie Schroder | 11/21/2017 @ 03:00PM

In advance of next month’s GKC conference, we spoke with the CEO and founder of DOGO Media about the surprising ways kids choose to engage with each other and with the world around them.
We Only Wear Different Clothes: 'PW' Talks with Jessica Fellowes

By Lenny Picker | 11/17/2017 @ 07:00PM

In 'The Mitford Murders' (Minotaur, Jan.), Downton Abbey expert Fellowes, the niece of the show’s creator, Julian Fellowes, kicks off a series featuring the members of the aristocratic Mitford family and providing plausible solutions to real-life crimes.
Four Questions for Oliver Jeffers

By Emma Kantor | 11/14/2017 @ 03:00PM

PW spoke with Jeffers about his new picture book, and the ways that fatherhood has given an immediacy to his storytelling.
Trading the Immortal for the Transitory: PW Talks with Jonathan Moore

By Eric Norton | 11/10/2017 @ 07:00PM

Moore explores the link between shopping and sexual desire in 'The Night Market' (HMH, Jan.), a futuristic thriller.
Q & A with Shane Burcaw

By Sara Grochowski | 11/09/2017 @ 03:00PM

PW spoke with Burcaw about his first foray into writing for young readers, and his mission of changing the public perception of disability.
Four Questions for Jeff Kinney

By Emma Kantor | 11/07/2017 @ 10:00AM

PW spoke with Kinney about his beloved and bestselling Diary of a Wimpy Kid series, which is now celebrating 10 years in print.
Health & Fitness 2017: Leslie Jamison on Creativity in Recovery

By Daniel Lefferts | 11/03/2017 @ 07:00PM

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.
Health & Fitness 2017: Austerity Measures

| 11/03/2017 @ 07:00PM

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.”
Bringing It Home: 'PW' Talks with A.J. Tata

By Allen Appel | 11/03/2017 @ 07:00PM

Tata, a retired brigadier general, imagines a terrorist plot that targets America’s top military leadership in 'Direct Fire' (Kensington, Jan.).
Q & A with Barbara Lehman

By Antonia Saxon | 11/02/2017 @ 03:00PM

PW spoke Lehman about wordless books, how children react to her stories, and her sequel to 'The Red Book.'

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