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Travel Journalism Begins at Home: PW Talks with Bill Hayes
Hayes discusses his latest book of photography, ‘How We Live Now’ (Bloomsbury, Aug.), which captures New York City under lockdown.
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Anxious Authority: PW Talks with Jeremy Leon Hance
In ‘Baggage’ (HCI, Oct.), environmental journalist Hance conveys what it’s like to travel with severe anxiety and OCD.
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The World of Malcolm X: PW Talks with Tamara Payne
Payne completed her father’s biography of Malcolm X, The Dead Are Arising (Liveright, Sept.), after his death in 2018.
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What Isn’t Said: PW Talks with Katharina Volckmer
Volckmer’s debut novel, The Appointment (Avid Reader, Sept.), satirizes the German struggle to overcome the atrocities of the country’s past.
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Getting It Together: PW Talks with Sophie Yanow
Yanow chronicles youthful European hitchhiking escapades
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Murder in the Peace Corps: PW Talks with Peter H. Reid
In Every Hill a Burial Place: The Peace Corps Murder Trial in East Africa (Univ. of Kentucky, Sept.), Reid revisits a 1966 murder in Tanzania that rocked the program.
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A Changing Neighborhood: PW Talks with Alyssa Cole
In Cole’s 'When No One Is Watching' (Morrow, Sept.), gentrification of a Brooklyn neighborhood pushes out the longtime Black residents, many of whom disappear without a trace.
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The Best Seat in the House: PW Talks with Michael Riedel
In 'Singular Sensation' (Avid Reader, Nov.), theater columnist Riedel details the history of Broadway in the 1990s.
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Q & A with Sarah Crossan
We spoke with Sarah Crossan, who has just ended her term as Ireland’s Children's Laureate, about her new YA novel-in-verse, 'Being Toffee.'
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Obituary: Joanna Cole
Children's book author Joanna Cole, widely recognized for her nonfiction, and especially for the popular Magic School Bus series, died on July 12 of idiopathic pulmonary fibrosis in Sioux City, Ia.; she was 75.
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Beyond Kindness: PW Talks with Rebekah Taussig
With her memoir ‘Sitting Pretty’ (HarperOne, Aug.), the disability advocate and educator hopes to help readers “think about bodies differently.”
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Ancient Wisdom: PW Talks with Ryan Holiday and Stephen Hanselman
Holiday and Hanselman’s 'Lives of Stoics' (Portfolio, Sept) profiles Stoic philosophers to consider different paths to living a good life.
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When Love Just Isn’t Enough: PW Talks with Charlot Kristensen
Dublin artist Kristensen’s debut graphic novel, 'What We Don’t Talk About' (Avery Hill, Sept.), focuses on an uncomfortable weekend trip taken by Farai and Adam, a young interracial couple.
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The Dangers of Duality: PW Talks with Rachel Howzell Hall
In Hall’s 'And Now She’s Gone' (Forge, Sept.), rookie detective Gray Sykes tries to find out what happened to a missing woman who calls herself Isabel Lincoln.
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Four Questions for Lisa Moore Ramée
Ramée spoke with PW about the inspiration for her new book, 'Something to Say.'
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Four Questions for James Patterson
James Patterson introduces a mysterious new character into his Maximum Ride universe in 'Hawk,' a YA novel he wrote with Gabrielle Charbonnet.
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Middle School Magic: PW Interviews Ailis Maeve Thornton and Na’ya Leiburne-Thornton
PW spoke with Na’ya and Ailis about life as weirn kids in a land of "things that would gladly eat you for dinner” and, even scarier, about the perils of middle school. (Sponsored)
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Codger Columbos: PW Talks with Richard Osman
In British TV personality Osman’s 'The Thursday Murder Club' (Viking/Dorman, Sept.), four retirement home residents fascinated by crime attempt to solve a murder.
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Transplanted Romantics: PW Talks with Adriana Herrera
Herrera launches a new series with 'Here to Stay' (Carina, Sept.), an interracial, enemies-to-lovers romance between the head of a charitable foundation and the consultant who may eliminate her job.
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Human First: PW Talks with Claudia Rankine
In 'Just Us' (Graywolf, Sept.), Rankine explores the challenges and rewards of talking about racial division in America.



