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Teaching from the Cloud: PW Talks with Adam Bessie
Bessie documents his experience teaching community college during the pandemic while going through treatment for brain cancer in 'Going Remote' (Seven Stories, Mar.), a graphic memoir drawn by Peter Glanting.
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Q & A with Nick Brooks
Teacher turned filmmaker Nick Brooks follows up his middle grade debut 'Nothing Ever Happens to Ethan Fairmont' with a highly anticipated foray into YA, a thriller called 'Promise Boys.'
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Q & A with Ami Polonsky
Ami Polonsky's newest book for young readers, 'World Made of Glass,' is set in 1987 and features Iris, a 12-year-old facing her father's death from AIDS.
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Body Language: PW Talks with Virginia Sole-Smith
In 'Fat Talk' (Holt, Apr.), the journalist and 'Burnt Toast' podcaster encourages parents to name and navigate anti-fat bias.
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Hashtag Blessed: PW Talks with Sara Petersen
The author of 'Momfluenced' (Beacon, Apr.) delves into the public performance of motherhood on Instagram.
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The Truth About Lie Detectors: PW Talks with Amit Katwala
In 'Tremors in the Blood: Murder, Obsession, and the Birth of the Lie Detector' (Crooked Lane, Mar.), 'Wired' reporter Katwala examines the origins of the polygraph.
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Broken Homes: PW Talks with Roxanna Asgarian
In 'We Were Once a Family' (FSG, Mar.), journalist Asgarian reveals how flaws in the child welfare system contributed to the 2018 murder-suicide of six children by their adoptive parents.
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Flights of Fancy: PW Talks with Kelly Link
Link’s engagement with the strange reaches its apotheosis in 'White Cat, Black Dog,' (Random House, Mar.), in which she draws on fairy tales including “Hansel and Gretel” and “Snow White and Rose Red.”
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Q & A with Claire Swinarski
PW talked with Claire Swinarski about addressing the "urgent and timeless" problem of sexual harassment in her new middle grade novel, 'What Happened to Rachel Riley?'
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The DIY Cosmic Cover Art of Sun Ra
In case his musical legacy wasn’t enough, free and spiritual jazz pioneer Sun Ra was also a visual artist, which is the subject of the new book 'Sun Ra: Art on Saturn: The Album Cover Art of Sun Ra’s Saturn Label.' We spoke with Irwin Chusid, who co-edited the book with Chris Reisman, about the visual art of Sun Ra.
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How Did Poe Die?: PW Talks with Mark Dawidziak
In 'A Mystery of Mysteries: The Death and Life of Edgar Allan Poe' (St. Martin’s, Feb.), former film and television critic Dawidziak uses Poe’s puzzling death as a hook to revisit the writer’s life.
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A Dystopian Diet: PW Talks with Chana Porter
Two very different women navigate a world where food is taboo in Porter’s 'The Thick and the Lean' (Saga, Apr.).
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Fall 2022 Flying Starts: Jas Hammonds
You could say it was written in the stars for flight attendant–turned–author Jas Hammonds to write books. Their YA debut, 'We Deserve Monuments', showcases a multigenerational story about a Black family and their roots in the small town of Burrell, Ga.
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Fall 2022 Flying Starts: Esme Symes-Smith
Born in Exeter, in the southwest of England, Esme Symes-Smith spent a great deal of time in Cornwall, which would later influence the setting of their debut novel, 'Sir Callie and the Champions of Helston', a middle grade fantasy in which a nonbinary would-be knight pushes back against gender stereotypes and restrictions.
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Fall 2022 Flying Starts: C.C. Harrington
Debut author C.C. Harrington has felt a strong draw toward animal stories since her childhood in the English countryside. Set in 1963, her middle grade novel 'Wildoak' follows two viewpoints: those of 11-year-old Maggie Stevens and snow leopard cub Rumpus.
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Fall 2022 Flying Starts: Liza Ferneyhough
“It was a drawing I did of my grandmother’s teacup,” author-illustrator Liza Ferneyhough says, recalling the image that set her on the creative path of transforming a mental catalog of multicultural family memories into her debut picture book, 'Nana, Nenek & Nina'.
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Fall 2022 Flying Starts: Skyler Schrempp
Debut author Skyler Schrempp's experience in theater helped her to home in on the voice of her historical middle grade novel, 'Three Strike Summer', about a girl whose family loses their Dust Bowl farm during the Great Depression.
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Fall 2022 Flying Starts: Zoulfa Katouh
Science and stories have always been twin threads running through Zoulfa Katouh’s life. Now a pharmacist working on cancer research and the debut author of the acclaimed novel 'As Long as the Lemon Trees Grow,' set amid the Syrian revolution, Katouh has found a way to keep both sides of her heart engaged.
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Carpe Diem: PW Talks with Jenny Odell
In 'Saving Time' (Random House, Mar.), Odell investigates alternative ways of understanding and evaluating time.
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From Pariah to Grand Master: PW Talks with Max Allan Collins and James L. Traylor
In 'Spillane: King of Pulp' (Mysterious, Feb.), Collins and Traylor deliver the first comprehensive biography of Mike Hammer creator Mickey Spillane.
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