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Black Bookstore Power!: PW Talks with Char Adams

By Claire Kirch | 02/07/2025 @ 07:00PM

In Black-Owned: The Revolutionary Life of the Black Bookstore (Tiny Reparations, Nov.), journalist Adams unearths the history of Black bookselling in the U.S.
WI2025: Bookselling Is Resilient: PW Talks with Allison Hill

By Ed Nawotka | 02/07/2025 @ 07:00PM

The CEO of the American Booksellers Association says that booksellers will always be there for each other.
WI2025: Beyond (S)kin Deep: PW Talks with Ibi Zoboi

by Idris Grey | 02/07/2025 @ 07:00PM

The author’s debut YA fantasy novel, (S)kin (Versify, out now), written in verse, follows an undocumented Caribbean mother and daughter who work for pennies by day and shed their skin to feast on the life force of their enemies at night.
Catching a Buzz: PW Talks with Shawn Harris

By Nathalie op de Beeck | 02/06/2025 @ 03:00PM

The Caldecott Honor winner discusses interactive readings, the appeal of working in crayon, and his new picture book, Let's Be Bees (Neal Porter Books).
Four Questions for Katherine Paterson

By Erica Wetter | 02/04/2025 @ 03:00PM

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.
Messy Love: PW Talks with Ashley Herring Blake

by Isabel Montero | 01/31/2025 @ 07:00PM

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.
Criticism Isn’t Art: PW Talks with Andrea Long Chu

by Zachary Fletcher | 01/31/2025 @ 07:00PM

In ‘Authority: Essays’ (Farrar, Straus and Giroux, Apr.), the Pulitzer Prize–winning book and TV critic reflects on the function of criticism.
Backing Down on Book Blurbs: PW Talks with Sean Manning

By John Maher | 01/31/2025 @ 07:00PM

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.
Q & A with Debbie Levy

By Amy E. Magnus | 01/27/2025 @ 09:00AM

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.'
Beyond the Book: Claribel A. Ortega and Oz Rodriguez Introduce 'The Girl and the Robot'

| 01/27/2025 @ 12:00AM

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)
We Didn’t Start the Fire: PW Talks with Anders Nilsen

by Chris Burkhalter | 01/24/2025 @ 07:00PM

The punishment of Prometheus casts a long shadow over present-day global turmoil in Tongues (Pantheon, Mar.), the first volume of a new graphic novel saga from the Ignatz Award–winning cartoonist.
“We’re All the Products of Housework”: PW Talks with Emily Callaci

by Vicki Borah Bloom | 01/24/2025 @ 07:00PM

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.).
Q & A with Danielle Parker

By Michael M. Jones | 01/23/2025 @ 03:00PM

PW spoke with Parker about her new YA romance, 'Love on Paper,' her success with Pitch Wars, and her experiences as a teacher.
The Blessing of Culture Shock: PW Talks with Rick Steves

By Elaine Aradillas | 01/17/2025 @ 07:00PM

‘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.
The Indie Publishing Outlook for 2025: PW Talks with Andrea Fleck-Nisbet

By Jim Milliot | 01/17/2025 @ 07:00PM

The Independent Book Publishers Association CEO talks about what’s on tap after her organization merges with PubWest later this year, and what indie publishers can expect to see in the year ahead.
Saline and Secrets: PW Talks with Katy Hays

by Vicki Borah Bloom | 01/17/2025 @ 07:00PM

A wealthy family comes apart at the seams in ‘Saltwater’ (Ballantine, Mar.), Hays's devilish sophomore thriller.
Your Mind Is Not Your Own: PW Talks with Rebecca Lemov

by Will Boisvert | 01/17/2025 @ 07:00PM

In ‘The Instability of Truth: Brainwashing, Mind Control, and Hyper-Persuasion’ (Norton, Mar.), historian Lemov explores how brainwashing plays out in Chinese reeducation camps, American universities, and elsewhere.
Finishing the Book Is Just the Beginning: PW Talks with Malcolm Gladwell

By Ed Nawotka | 01/17/2025 @ 09:00AM

The popular podcaster and author of 'Revenge of the Tipping Point' shares how his thinking about producing, publishing, and promoting books has evolved in the 25 years since he first became a bestseller.
Four Questions for Kami Garcia

By Amanda Ramirez | 01/16/2025 @ 03:00PM

Young adult author and graphic novelist Kami Garcia releases her first middle grade graphic novel 'Mixed-Up', illustrated by Brittney Williams, which follows a creative fifth grader navigating a dyslexia diagnosis.
The Far Corners of This World: PW Talks with Mike Mignola

By Michael Seidlinger | 01/15/2025 @ 11:00AM

The creator of Hellboy returns to comics on January 22 with the debut anthology volume in a series called Lands Unknown, published by a new Dark Horse Comics imprint, Curious Objects. Mignola spoke with PW about folklore, worldbuilding, and more.

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