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Wildest Imagination: PW Talks with Ed Yong
In 'An Immense World: How Animal Senses Reveal the Hidden Realms Around Us' (Random House, July), journalist Yong challenges readers to imagine the sensory worlds of animals.
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Murder and Matrimony: PW Talks with Alan Gordon
Writing as Allison Montclair, defense attorney, librettist, and novelist Gordon provides another murder for the proprietors of the Right Sort Marriage Bureau to solve in 'The Unkempt Woman' (Minotaur, July).
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Weird, Perverse Fun: PW Talks with Nick Drnaso
In 'Acting Class' (Drawn & Quarterly, Aug.), Drnaso follows a group of characters who join an acting class, through which their understanding of themselves— as well as the limits of reality—gets tested.
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Big Love: PW Talks with Jodie Slaughter
Slaughter's 'Bet on It' (Griffin, July) begins with a bingo-based sex pact and ends with two broken souls finding each other and themselves.
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Q & A with Derrick Barnes
In 'The Queen of Kindergarten,' Derrick Barnes returns to the first day of school in this follow-up to his bestselling picture book, 'The King of Kindergarten,' both illustrated by long-time collaborator Vanessa Brantley-Newton.
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Q & A with Kendall Kulper
Kendall Kulper spoke with PW about her new YA novel, ' Murder for the Modern Girl,' and writing historical fantasy.
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Q & A with Lisa Fipps
PW spoke with author and library marketing director Lisa Fipps about how her multiple roles intersect, and why 'Starfish' is the book she had to write.
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False Promises: PW Talks with Rina Raphael
The author of 'The Gospel of Wellness' (Holt, Sept.) spoke with 'PW' about gender, the commodification of health, and America’s long history of snake oil salespeople.
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Learning How to Feel: PW Talks with Batja Mesquita
In 'Between Us' (Norton, July), psychology professor Mesquita explores the social origins of emotions.
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A Lie Foretold: PW Talks with Jonathan Lemire
In 'The Big Lie: Election Chaos, Political Opportunism, and the State of American Politics After 2020' (Flatiron, July), journalist Lemire examines the roots and repercussions of Donald Trump’s false claims about the 2020 election.
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Roots of Revolution: PW Talks with Kelly Lytle Hernández
MacArthur Fellow Kelly Lytle Hernández, author of 'Bad Mexicans: Race, Empire, and Revolution in the Borderlands' (Norton), spoke with 'PW' about the book, the absence of adequate historical education on U.S.-Mexican relations in America, and more.
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Q & A with Julio Torres
In his first picture book, 'I Want to Be a Vase' (Atheneum), 'SNL' writer and comedian Julio Torres's protagonist is a bathroom plunger who declares it is leaving its job to become "a vessel for beauty."
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In on the Joke: PW Talks with Sona Movsesian
Movsesian, longtime assistant to Conan O’Brien, takes a riotous look back at her 13 years working with the legendary late-night host, while sharing the often hilarious lessons she learned along the way in 'The World’s Worst Assistant' (Plume, July).
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Music of the Spheres: PW Talks with Alex White
A musician teams up with an extraterrestrial robot to save humanity in 'White’s August Kitko and the Mechas from Space' (Orbit, July).
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Amphitheaters of Blood: PW Talks with Lindsey Davis
In Davis’s 'Desperate Undertaking' (Minotaur, July), series heroine Flavia Albia tracks a killer in Domitian’s Rome.
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A Personal Portrait of Politics: PW Talks with Sofia Warren
For 'Radical: My Year with a Socialist Senator' (Top Shelf, June), Warren spent a year as an embedded cartoonist in the office of New York state senator Julia Salazar.
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Q & A with Ali Stroker
Ali Stroker, the first actor using a wheelchair to win a Tony Award, presents her second work for young readers, 'Ali and the Sea Stars,' a picture book illustrated by Gillian Reid, with a message of chasing dreams.
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Four Questions for Natalia Sylvester
Natalia Sylvester's new YA novel, 'Breathe and Count Back from Ten,' follows Verónica, a Peruvian American teenager born with hip dysplasia, who dreams of becoming a mermaid at a summer theme park.
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Get in the Game: PW Talks with Francine Parham
In 'Please Sit Over There,' Francine Parham examines workplace power, exclusion, and success.
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Speaking for the Forgotten Dead: PW Talks with Billy Jensen
In 'Killers Amidst Killers: Hunting Serial Killers Operating Under the Cloak of America’s Opiod Epidemic' (Morrow, July), journalist Jensen investigates the cases of 30 women who were murdered in Ohio in the 2010s.
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