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Octopus’s Garden: PW Talks with Ray Nayler
Nayler’s sci-fi debut, 'The Mountain in the Sea' (MCD, Oct.), hinges on the discovery of intelligent octopus life.
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The Real Agatha Christie: PW Talks with Lucy Worsley
In 'Agatha Christie: An Elusive Woman' (Pegasus Crime, Sept.), historian Worsley reframes the prolific detective novelist’s life.
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Four Questions for Elizabeth Kilcoyne
We spoke with Elizabeth Kilcoyne about horror, grief, and her YA debut, 'Wake the Bones.'
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From Hardback to Substack: PW Talks with Mary Gaitskill
The author of 'Bad Behavior,' 'The Mare,' and more on the freedom of an email newsletter and the horrors of the internet.
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Outside of Society: PW Talks with Ernesto Mestre-Reed
In Cuban American author Mestre-Reed’s 'Sacrificio' (Soho, Sept.), a young man falls into a group of queer counterrevolutionaries in late-1990s Havana.
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After the Untouchables: PW Talks with Daniel Stashower
In 'American Demon: Eliot Ness and the Hunt for America’s Jack the Ripper' (Minotaur, Sept.), Stashower explores the legendary lawman’s career after the arrest of Al Capone.
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The Past Is Never Dead: PW Talks with Orlando Figes
In 'The Story of Russia' (Metropolitan, Sept.), Figes surveys the history of Russian leaders reimagining their nation’s past to suit their present-day political agendas.
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'Games Are Another Form of Storytelling': PW Talks to Gabrielle Zevin
Zevin, whose 'Tomorrow, and Tomorrow, and Tomorrow' (Knopf, July) does for game design what her 2014 'The Storied Life of A. J. Fikry' did for indie bookstores, talked with 'PW' about storytelling, cultural appropriation, and more.
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Q & A with Lora Senf
In 'The Clackity' by debut author Lora Senf, 12-year-old Evie Von Rathe journeys into a terrifying supernatural world populated by ghosts and witches.
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Four Questions for Eileen Grimes
Eileen Grimes, a former high school teacher and the founder of the company Loved as You Are, is sharing her book 'The Us Journal: A Parent-Child Journey of Love and Discovery' with children and caregives in Uvalde, Tex., to help families process the recent school shooting.
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Spring 2022 Flying Starts: Chioma Ebinama
The last year has been filled with milestones for Nigerian American illustrator and fine artist Chioma Ebinama.
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Spring 2022 Flying Starts: Andrew Joseph White
Andrew Joseph White has been writing since before he could write; that passion blossomed into a goal to finish a full-length book at an early age, finally leading to the release of his debut novel, 'Hell Followed with Us,' this month.
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Spring 2022 Flying Starts: Julian Randall
Twenty years in the making, 'Pilar Ramirez and the Escape from Zafa' marks Julian Randall’s middle grade debut with the first in a series that meshes historical elements of the 1950s Trujillo dictatorship with Dominican mythology.
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Spring 2022 Flying Starts: Judy Lin
Debut author Judy Lin has harbored a love of mythological worlds and magic since she was a child, browsing the aisles in Taiwan bookstores, always gravitating toward Japanese and Celtic folklore.
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Spring 2022 Flying Starts: Carl Joe Williams
According to debut children’s book illustrator Carl Joe Williams ('Mardi Gras Almost Didn’t Come This Year' by Kathy Z. Price), art has been part of his life from the beginning.
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Spring 2022 Flying Starts: Camille Gomera-Tavarez
The inspirations for Camille Gomera-Tavarez’s widely praised debut collection 'High Spirits: Short Stories on Dominican Diaspora'—her far-flung family and its lore, her interest in the art of bookmaking, her admiration for favorite authors’ work—were always on the edge of her mind; she just didn’t know it until she got to college.
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Portrait of the Artist as a Young Activist: PW Talks with Prince Shakur
In 'When They Tell You to Be Good' (Tin House, June), Shakur combines reflections on coming of age as a Black queer artist with journalistic dives into family stories and Jamaican history to create a memoir of political resistance.
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Murder in the Heartland: PW Talks with John Galligan
In Galligan’s 'Bad Day Breaking' (Atria, Aug.), Wisconsin sheriff Heidi Kick probes a murder possibly connected to a cult.
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Four Questions for Melanie Crowder
Melanie Crowder is the award-winning author of several young adult and middle grade novels. 'Jumper' is her first contemporary YA novel.
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Four Questions for Juliana Goodman
Juliana Goodman's debut YA novel 'The Black Girls Left Standing' follows 16-year-old Beau investigating the death of her older sister Katia at the hands of the police.
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