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Q & A with Travis Jonker
We spoke with author and librarian Travis Jonker about how he started writing and illustrating for kids, what he has learned from other creators over the years, and what it’s like living a life surrounded by books and book lovers.
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In Conversation: Lydia Gregovic and Krista Marino
We asked Lydia Gregovic to discuss the origins of her YA fantasy debut 'The Monstrous Kind' and the experience of shifting back and forth between writing and editing with Delacorte senior executive editor Krista Marino.
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Q & A with Bessie Flores Zaldívar
Set in 2017 Tegucigalpa, Honduras, Bessie Flores Zaldívar’s debut YA novel Libertad follows 18-year-old gay poet Libi and her family as they navigate the months before a highly anticipated—and historically controversial—presidential election.
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2024 Election and Voting-Themed Books: Q&As with Picture Book Authors
Election season is in full swing and even if young readers can't vote, they can still get involved. We spoke with three authors about how their new picture books can help children learn about civic engagement.
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Four Questions for Ellen Hopkins
In her verse novel 'Sync,' author Ellen Hopkins's first YA since 'People Kill People' in 2018, 17-year-old twins Storm and Lake struggle to navigate the foster care system and all the complications that come with it.
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Known Unknowns: PW Talks with Kelsey Johnson
In 'Into the Unknown' (Basic, Oct.), astronomer Kelsey Johnson probes the limits of scientific knowledge about the universe.
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Voices Carry: PW Talks with Maylis de Kerangal
Maylis De Kerangal explores memory, voice, and human connection in the story collection 'Canoes' (Archipelago, Oct.).
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The Past Is Never Dead: PW Talks with Brandon Shimoda
In 'The Afterlife Is Letting Go' (City Lights, Dec.), poet Brandon Shimoda reflects on attempts to memorialize the mass incarceration of Japanese Americans during WWII.
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Fall Regionals 2024: Forging Connections in California: PW Talks with CALIBA Executive Director Hannah Walcher
After being announced as the California Booksellers Alliance’s new executive director in February, Hannah Walcher, former director of Books Inc.’s nonprofit Reading Bridge book fair program, officially started work in June. We spoke with Walcher about her bookselling journey, CALIBA’s top priorities, and her excitement for the upcoming Fall Fest in Pasadena.
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Q & A with Randy Ribay
Via four generations of Filipino teens' alternating perspectives, Randy Ribay, author of 'Patron Saints of Nothing,' a National Book Award finalist, examines masculinity and familial trauma in his historical YA novel 'Everything We Never Had'.
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Throw Thorn a Bone: PW Talks with Jeff Smith
Before the great cartoonist released his classic series, Bone, he created its characters as part of his “precocious college comic strip,” Thorn.
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A Bible Study with a Monster Twist: PW Talks with Manny Arango
A Dallas preacher sees the wreckage of chaos—the dragons of anxiety, deceit, selfishness and worse—in scripture and the promise of a savior.
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The Trail Less Traveled: PW Talks with Ted Alvarez
The author of ‘Hiking Hidden Gems in America’s National Parks’ discusses the complicated allure of Instagrammable landscapes.
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The Art of Grieving: PW Talks with Sarah Leavitt
Leavitt channels her grief over her partner’s medically assisted suicide into diary comics in 'Something, Not Nothing' (Arsenal Pulp, Sept.).
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Hundreds of Open Tabs and a Lot of Imagination: PW Talks with Andreas Malm and Wim Carton
In 'Overshoot' (Verso, Oct.), climate scholars Andreas Malm and Wim Carton debunk easy technical fixes and propose a forceful economic vision for how to stop global warming.
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Q & A with Julian Winters
In Julian Winters's latest YA romance, 'Prince of the Palisades,' the titular royal Jadon is sent to L.A. to prove to his family that he can be the kind of prince and leader his nation Rêverie needs.
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Four Questions for Abigail Hing Wen
Abigail Hing Wen sets sail from her bestselling Loveboat series to chart new territory in the rom-com thriller 'Kisses, Codes, and Conspiracies', her first standalone YA novel.
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Q & A with Jordan Ifueko
Jordan Ifueko confronts the complex aftermath of revolution in her YA fantasy 'The Maid and the Crocodile,' set 10 years after her Raybearer series.
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Four Questions for Hayley Dennings
YA author Hayley Dennings’s bloodthirsty romantasy debut, 'This Ravenous Fate,' takes place during the lively Harlem Renaissance era.
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Revenge and Revolution: PW Talks with August Clarke
Marney Honeycutt, seeking revenge after her family is murdered in a strike break, joins a crew of lesbian bandit revolutionaries in Clarke’s 'Metal from Heaven' (Erewhon, Oct.).
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