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Still Here, Still Queer: PW Talks with Francesca Ekwuyasi
Ekwuyasi’s 'Butter Honey Pig Bread' (Arsenal Pulp, Dec.) explores a cursed mother’s complicated relationship with her daughters, as well as the lives of queer Nigerians.
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Crime in the Countryside: PW Talks with Kjell Eriksson
In Eriksson’s 'The Night of Fire' (Minotaur, Nov.), retired Swedish police inspector Ann Lindell probes a fatal arson.
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Four Questions for Tom Lichtenheld
We spoke with Tom Lichtenheld about 'Moo-Moo, I Love You!,' his final book with friend Amy Krouse Rosenthal, which he completed after she died in 2017.
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Q & A with Amy Timberlake
Newbery Honor author Amy Timberlake introduces a pair of unlikely animal roommates in her latest book, 'Skunk and Badger,' a middle-grade novel illustrated by Caldecott Medalist Jon Klassen.
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Q & A with Corinne Duyvis
Corinne Duyvis spoke with us about her new YA novel, 'The Art of Saving the World,' LGBTQIA+ representation, and the impact of the #OwnVoices hashtag that she coined five years ago.
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Trailblazing, Warts and All: PW Talks with Janice P. Nimura
Nimura chronicles the lives of medical pioneers Emily and Elizabeth Blackwell in 'The Doctors Blackwell' (Norton, Oct.)
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In Conversation: Andrea Davis Pinkney and Brian Pinkney
We asked husband-and-wife collaborators Andrea Davis Pinkney and Brian Pinkney to interview each other about their latest book, 'Loretta Little Looks Back: Three Voices Go Tell It,' the cross-generational story of a Black family.
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In the Presence of History: PW talks with P. Djèlí Clark
Though the KKK members of ‘Ring Shout’ are literal demons, Clark notes, ‘the actual Klan doesn’t need to be composed of otherworldly creatures to be inhuman.’
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Reclaiming the Subversive: PW talks with Alix E. Harrow
In ‘The Once and Future Witches,’ Harrow deploys fairy tales and feminist thought to show why witches might just be the heroes modern times demand.
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Significant Self: PW Talks with Melissa Croce
Croce delivers a witty guide to living romantically unattached in 'Single and Forced to Mingle' (Atria, Dec.).
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Taking It to the Limit: PW Talks with Becky Cooper
In 'We Keep the Dead Close: A Murder at Harvard and a Half Century of Silence' (Grand Central, Nov.), Cooper delves into the 1969 murder of Harvard student Jane Britton, which was finally solved in 2018.
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Evolution of a Suffragette: PW Talks with Rachel Holmes
In 'Sylvia Pankhurst: Natural Born Rebel' (Bloomsbury, Dec.), historian Holmes details the life of the British activist.
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Little Garden of Horrors: PW Talks with James Brogden
A woman with early-onset dementia discovers her neighbors are cannibalistic cultists while tending her garden in Brogden’s 'Bone Harvest' (Titan, Nov.).
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In Conversation: Ibi Zoboi and Yusef Salaam
We asked co-authors Ibi Zoboi and Yusef Salaam, a member of the Exonerated Five, to interview each other about their new YA novel, 'Punching the Air,' and fighting institutional racism.
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Q & A with Garth Nix
For his latest novel, 'The Left-Handed Booksellers of London,' Garth Nix channels his earlier life in the book trade.
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Four Questions for Bill Konigsberg
Bill Konigsberg spoke with us about his new YA novel, 'The Bridge,' and teen suicide prevention.
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Q & A with Phil Bildner
Phil Bildner spoke with us about how he went from teaching kids to writing books for them, and about the inspiration for his latest novel, 'A High Five for Glenn Burke.'
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Just Like Bibi Used to Make: PW Talks with Hawa Hassan
With ‘In Bibi’s Kitchen’ (Ten Speed, Oct.), Somali-born home cook Hassan shares the stories and recipes of grandmothers from eight African countries.
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Things to Come: PW Talks with Julie Shah and Laura Major
Shah and Major look into the near and less-near future of human-robot cooperation in 'What to Expect When You’re Expecting Robots' (Basic, Oct.).
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A Dangerous Book: PW Talks with Emily M. Danforth
Danforth follows 2012’s 'The Miseducation of Cameron Post' with 'Plain, Bad Heroine' (Morrow, Oct.), a paean to queer romance, metafiction, and gothic horror.



