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From the Operating Room: PW Talks with Jay Wellons

By Eric Norton | 04/15/2022 @ 07:00PM

In 'All That Moves Us' (Random House, June), pediatric neurosurgeon Wellons recalls the patients and students who have taught him some powerful lessons.
Love on the Rocks: PW Talks with Angelina M. Lopez

By Laura Martinez | 04/15/2022 @ 07:00PM

A brassy bartender and a charming professor work together to find a buried treasure and save a historic bar in Lopez’s 'After Hours on Milagro Street' (Carina, July).
The Big Blackout: PW Talks with David Koepp

By Lenny Picker | 04/15/2022 @ 07:00PM

In 'Aurora' (Minotaur, June), veteran screenwriter Koepp imagines the impact of a massive, sustained global energy outage.
Big Deal in a Small Town: PW Talks with Jonathan Dyck

By Dai Newman | 04/15/2022 @ 07:00PM

Dyck’s 'Shelterbelts' (Conundrum, May) offers a complex portrait of a Manitoba Mennonite community told in spare comics short stories.
Four Questions for Jenna Bush Hager and Barbara Pierce Bush

By Sally Lodge | 04/14/2022 @ 03:00PM

Former first daughters Jenna Bush Hager and Barbara Pierce Bush spoke with PW about their new picture book, 'The Superpower Sisterhood,' a story celebrating the power of sisterly bonds
Q & A with Emily X.R. Pan

By Gilcy Aquino | 04/12/2022 @ 03:00PM

We spoke with YA author Emily X.R. Pan about her new novel, 'An Arrow to the Moon,' a mashup of 'Romeo and Juliet' and Chinese mythology.
Reimagining Beauty (and the Beast): Spotlight on Jasmine Guillory

| 04/12/2022 @ 12:00AM

With By the Book, Disney’s Beauty and the Beast gets a modern—and decidedly bookish—treatment. (Sponsored)
Who Belongs: PW Talks with Caleb Gayle

By Eric Norton | 04/08/2022 @ 07:00PM

In 'We Refuse to Forget' (Riverhead, June), Gayle examines how Black Creeks lost their tribal citizenship in 1979.
Before Seabiscuit: PW Talks with Geraldine Brooks

By Susan Wright | 04/08/2022 @ 07:00PM

In 'Horse' (Viking, June), Brooks draws on the true story of a 19th-century racehorse.
Death in Paradise: PW Talks with Debra Bokur

By Lenny Picker | 04/08/2022 @ 07:00PM

In Bokur’s ‘The Lava Witch’ (Kensington, June), the police on Maui probe the murder of a woman amid reports that “a band of witches” was seen flying through the trees near where she was killed.
Q & A with Kit Frick

By Liv Morris | 04/07/2022 @ 03:00PM

We spoke with Kit Frick about her new YA thriller, 'Very Bad People,' and the allure of boarding schools.
Q & A with Yamile Saied Méndez

By Libby Morse | 04/05/2022 @ 03:00PM

We spoke with author Yamile Saied Méndez about her new middle grade series, Horse Country, and writing inclusive books for young readers.
Fire in the Soul: PW Talks with Pat Martin

By Steph Buschardt | 04/01/2022 @ 07:00PM

In 'Life of Fire' (Clarkson Potter, Apr.), pitmaster Martin guides readers through the ins and outs of open-flame cooking—from building one’s own pit to roasting a whole hog.
Radically Mundane: PW Talks with Jamila Rowser and Robyn Smith

By Cheryl Klein | 04/01/2022 @ 07:00PM

Rowser and Smith’s 'Wash Day Diaries' (Chronicle, June) follows the stories of four friends in the Bronx through the lens of everyday self-care rituals.
Q & A with Lily Anderson

By Katrina Niidas Holm | 03/31/2022 @ 03:00PM

We spoke with 'Scout's Honor' author Lily Anderson about 'Buffy the Vampire Slayer,' teen mental health, and how her past experience as a school librarian continues to inform her YA fiction.
For Colin Kaepernick, Writing Is Another Form of Activism

By Nathalie op de Beeck | 03/29/2022 @ 04:00PM

We spoke with social justice icon and former San Francisco 49ers quarterback Colin Kaepernick about his debut picture book, 'I Color Myself Different,' and writing as an extension of his advocacy.
Down the Historical Rabbit Hole: Close-up on: Kelly Rimmer

| 03/29/2022 @ 12:00AM

Kelly Rimmer spoke to PW about her new novel, The German Wife; what draws her to write historical fiction; and the fictional relationships that enable events from the past to resonate emotionally with her readers in the present. (Sponsored)
Q & A with Emily Calandrelli

By Patricia J. Murphy | 03/28/2022 @ 09:00AM

We spoke with engineer turned Emmy-nominated science TV host Emily Calandrelli about her pivot to children's book writing.
'There Can Be No Happy Stories Here': PW Talks with Katrina Monroe

By Liz Scheier | 03/25/2022 @ 07:00PM

In Monroe's 'They Drown Our Daughters,' a seaside town's mermaid legend has sinister implications for one local family.
An Ivory Tower Murder: PW Talks with Richard White

By Lenny Picker | 03/25/2022 @ 07:00PM

In 'Who Killed Jane Stanford? A Gilded Age Tale of Murder, Deceit, Spirits, and the Birth of a University' (Norton, May), White solves a century-old murder mystery.

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