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Working with a Master: PW Talks with Max Allan Collins
Mickey Spillane expert Collins readied Spillane’s final completed novel, The Last Stand (Hard Case Crime, Mar.), for publication just in time for the writer’s centennial.
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In Conversation: Mary H.K. Choi and Richard Lawson
PW asked the two cultural reporters to interview each other about their contemporary YA debuts, and working across multiple media platforms.
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What’s It Really Like to Write a Guidebook?: Travel Books 2018
Five travel guide authors offer a behind-the-postcard look at their job.
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Math and Murder: PW Talks with Nova Jacobs
In Jacobs’s 'The Last Equation of Isaac Severy' (Touchstone, Mar.), the title character, a brilliant mathematician, leaves behind cryptic clues to his mysterious death for his granddaughter to solve.
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Junot Díaz Draws from Immigrant Experience in Debut Children's Book
The Pulitzer Prize-winning author of books for adults is finally ending what he calls “the epoch of disappointment” by publishing his first children’s book, 'Islandborn.'
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The Stains of Crime: 'PW' Talks with Andrew Wilson
In Wilson’s 'A Different Kind of Evil' (Atria, Mar.), Agatha Christie solves a series of baffling murders on one of the Canary Islands.
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Four Questions for Neal Shusterman
PW spoke with Shusterman about book two in his Arc of a Scythe series.
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The Importance of Sharing Media: PW talks with Anya Kamenetz
In ‘The Art of Screen Time,’ the NPR education reporter looks at the divisive topic of devices.
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Rising Through Even the Worst Circumstances: PW Talks with Alma Katsu
In 'The Hunger' (Putnam, Mar.), Katsu puts an unusual twist on the tragic story of the Donner Party.
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Q & A with Melba Pattillo Beals
Beals spoke with PW about revisiting her past as a member of the Little Rock Nine, and what she hopes readers will glean from her new memoir.
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A Modern-Day Sherlock Holmes: 'PW' Talks with Jonathan Kellerman
Kellerman’s psychologist sleuth, Alex Delaware, assists the LAPD in solving a particularly baffling crime in "Night Moves" (Ballantine, Feb.).
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Q & A with James L. Swanson
PW spoke with the author of 'Chasing King’s Killer' about his interest in sparking kids’ love of history.
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In Conversation: Tim Federle and Marla Frazee
Authors Federle and Frazee discuss seeing their picture book adaptations on the big screen.
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When Siddartha Met Sigmund: 'PW' Talks with Mark Epstein
Psychiatrist Mark Epstein’s 'Advice Not Given: A Guide to Getting Over Yourself' (Penguin Press, Jan. 2018) explores the connection between Buddhism and psychotherapy.
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Social Worker with a Gun: 'PW' Talks with Kent Anderson
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.
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Questioning the Conquest: 'PW' Talks with Matthew Restall
Historian Restall challenges established interpretations of the encounter between Montezuma and Hernando Cortés in 'When Montezuma Met Cortés' (Ecco, Jan.).
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The Zen of Frugality: PW Talks with Elizabeth Willard Thames
In ‘Meet the Frugalwoods,’ the blogger shares how she and her husband gave up the 9-to-5 for a more fulfilling life.
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Four Questions for Jack White
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.
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Q & A with Emma Mills
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.
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Ames to Please: 'PW' Talks with Jonathan Ames
Best known for his comic novels, Ames tries his hand at noir in 'You Were Never Here' (Vintage Crime/Black Lizard, Jan.).



