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The Future is Female: PW Talks with Kate Elliott
With 'Unconquerable Sun' (Tor, July.) Elliott launches a space opera trilogy based on the life of Alexander the Great and following the political career of Princess Sun, heir to the Chaonian Republic.
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Ghostbuster?: PW Talks with Riley Sager
Sager’s 'Home Before Dark' (Dutton, July.) explores a family’s experience with a terrifying haunted house.
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Mother Fury: PW Talks with Mike Hawthorne
Hawthorne recalls his strong-willed but unstable Puerto Rican mother in 'Happiness will Follow' (Archaia, June.), a graphic memoir about their family’s struggle to survive in the mainland U.S.
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Q & A with Kelly Yang
We spoke with Kelly Yang about pivoting to YA in her new novel, 'Parachutes,' and the impact of personal experience on her writing.
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Q & A with Jenny Torres Sanchez
In her timely fifth book, 'We Are Not from Here,' Jenny Torres Sanchez follows three teens attempting the dangerous journey from their violence-ridden village in Guatemala to the United States.
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The Power of Perception: Spotlight on John Perkins
A writer advocates for radical transformation in business and in life. (Sponsored)
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Make America Sacred Again: Spotlight on Glenn Aparicio Parry
With Original Politics, Nautilus Book Award winner Parry looks to heal divisions and unify the United States. (Sponsored)
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Agree to Disagree: PW Talks with Tania Israel
In ‘Beyond Your Bubble’ (Aug.), psychology professor Israel offers strategies for communicating and understanding across party lines.political bubbles?
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Be Your Own Bartender: PW Talks with John deBary
In 'Drink What You Want' (Clarkson Potter, June.) veteran bartender deBary takes an egalitarian stance on cocktails.
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Duty of Care: PW Talks with Chris Hamby
Journalist Hamby’s 'Soul Full of Coal Dust' (Little, Brown, Aug.) examines the resurgence of black lung disease.
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Broken Oath: PW Talks with Lysley Tenorio
Tenorio’s 'The Son of Good Fortune' (Ecco, July.) takes a searing and humorous look at an undocumented Filipino mother— a former action movie star—and her pizza-slinging son.
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Where the Rubber Meets the Road: PW Talks with S.A. Cosby
An auto shop owner tries to put his criminal past behind him in Cosby’s 'Blacktop Wasteland' (Flatiron, July.), a neo-noir thriller set in 2012 Virginia.
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Q & A with Katherine Applegate
Katherine Applegate revisits the animal comrades from her 2013 Newbery winner, 'The One and Only Ivan,' in a new sequel, 'The One and Only Bob.'
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'This Very Cool Planet We Are Lucky to Call Home'
In her new book, adventurer, filmmaker, and environmental advocate Alison Teal combines a message of self-empowerment with a vital awareness of the climate crisis that is roiling the planet.
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Rethinking Freud: Spotlight on Jill Hannum and Ines Rieder
An English translation of the biography of one of Freud’s most mysterious patients gives readers an opportunity to reconsider the only essay on female homosexuality by the founder of psychoanalysis. (Sponsored)
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Mutual Respect: PW Talks with Marilyn Gist
Gist interviews a dozen CEOs who she says achieved success while keeping their egos in check in 'The Extraordinary Power of Leader Humility' (Berrett-Koehler, Sept.).
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Tectonic Shifts: PW Talks with Bob Davis
In ‘Superpower Showdown’ (Harper Business, June), Davis and coauthor Lingling Wei examine how U.S.-China relations deteriorated to the point of impasse just as cooperation between the world’s two largest economies has become more urgent than ever.
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Always Hustling: PW Talks with Sophia Chang
In 'The Baddest Bitch in the Room' (Catapult, Sept.), Chang discusses managing the Wu-Tang Clan and being a boss.
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The Art of Healing: PW Talks with Victor del Árbol
In del Árbol’s 'Breathing Through the Wound' (Other, July.), Eduardo Quintana, a painter who lost family to a reckless driver, is commissioned to paint a portrait of a motorist responsible for another tragic death.
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From Sea Power to the Halls of Power: PW talks with Ian W. Toll
‘Twilight of the Gods’ (Norton, July), which concludes Toll’s Pacific War Trilogy, examines critical decisions about sea and air strategy made in the final year of WWII.



