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Q & A with Raegan Revord
Actor, producer, and book club creator Raegan Revord is best known for their role on 'Young Sheldon' as the beloved Missy Cooper. At just 14, Revord signed a two-book deal, and the now 17-year-old child star is releasing their debut YA novel, 'Rules for Fake Girlfriends.'
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Four Questions for Ingrid Law
Ten years after the release of her middle grade novel Switch, Newbery Honor winner Ingrid Law returns to the children’s lit scene with a picture book debut of the bedtime variety.
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Why Oral History Matters: PW Talks with Garrett M. Graff
The bestselling Pulitzer finalist discusses 'The Devil Reached Toward the Sky,' his oral history of the atomic bomb, which arrives on the 80th anniversary of the weapon's use on Hiroshima and Nagasaki.
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Freedom Fighting and History Writing: PW Talks with Rob Edwards
In his new graphic novel, Defiant (Legion M/Stranger, out now), the Captain America: Brave New World screenwriter tells the little-known story of Robert Smalls, who escaped slavery in 1862 and went on to become a U.S. Congressman.
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Four Questions for A.J. Wood
Veteran children’s book publisher and author A.J. Wood, creator of the bestselling Ologies series, turns her attention to the mysterious side of science with 'The Wizard’s Guide to Magical Experiments.'
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Beyond the Book: 'New York Times' Bestselling Author Kathleen Norris Is Back with a 'Miracle' Memoir
'New York Times' bestselling author Kathleen Norris pens a deeply personal memoir centered on her relationship with her sister, Becky, who was born with a disability. Norris explores the myriad ways God works in our lives and reflects on how Becky's spirit and resilience illuminate the hidden power of faith, family, and love. (Sponsored)
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All in This Together: PW Talks with Lev A.C. Rosen
In the 1950s-set novel ‘Mirage City’ (Minotaur, Oct.), queer San Francisco PI Evander Mills returns home to L.A. for a hardboiled adventure involving motorcycle gangs and the Mattachine Society.
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No Holds Barred: PW Talks with OverDrive’s Ryan Fish
The head of product at OverDrive, the digital distribution company behind Libby and Sora, lays out the topics sure to keep librarians talking at its Digipalooza conference, which comes to Cleveland August 12–14.
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Death’s Door: PW Talks with Mariana Enríquez
International Booker finalist Mariana Enríquez, who specializes in gothic fiction and horror, makes her nonfiction debut with Somebody Is Walking on Your Grave, a travelogue that takes readers to cemeteries and graveyards on four continents.
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How to Tell Queer Histories: PW Talks with Anthony Delaney
The historian’s 'Queer Enlightenments' (Atlantic Monthly, Oct.) profiles queer and gender-nonconforming figures of the 18th and early 19th centuries.
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Q & A with James Ransome
Multifaceted artist and renowned author-illustrator James Ransome returns with a new picture book, 'A Place for Us,' the wordless story of an unhoused mother and son.
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In Conversation: Aaron Reynolds and Peter Brown
We asked the duo behind Jasper Rabbit’s Creepy Tales to discuss their new spinoff chapter book series, which kicks off with 'Troubling Tonsils,' and striking the right tone for kids.
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Q & A with Jeanne Birdsall
Penderwicks series author Jeanne Birdsall returns with 'The Library of Unruly Treasures,' a lightly fantastical contemporary middle grade novel illustrated by Matt Phelan.
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Bookseller Andrew Laties on Championing Banned Books
We spoke with Andrew Laties, longtime activist bookseller, author, and publisher of the Rebel Bookseller imprint, about his latest title to focus on banned books, 'You’re Telling My Kids They Can’t Read This Book?'
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Four Questions for Charlene Chua
A grieving girl finds the ideal way to honor her late aunt in Charlene Chua’s 'The Pink Pajamas: A Story About Love and Loss,' the second picture book Chua has both written and illustrated (after 2020’s 'Hug?').
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Four Questions for Elizabeth Scully
We spoke with reading specialist and former classroom teacher Elizabeth Scully about her experience creating decodable books.
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Hip-Hop Is the Medium: PW Talks with Jeff Pearlman
In ‘Only God Can Judge Me: The Many Lives of Tupac Shakur’ (Mariner, Oct.), the biographer unpacks Shakur’s origins, contradictions, and artistic legacy.
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Hot as Hell: PW Talks with Alexandria Bellefleur
A heartbroken woman makes a deal with a sexy demon to win back her ex-girlfriend in the Lambda Award winner’s 'The Devil She Knows' (Berkley, Oct.).
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Four Questions for Jeannine Atkins
Jeannine Atkins, the writer of several biographies of remarkable women in history, grapples with her own past and the impact of a sexual assault she suffered during college in her new memoir in verse 'Knocking on Windows.'
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Paging ‘Dr. Werthless’: PW Talks with Harold Schechter and Eric Powell
The duo takes on the famed psychiatrist and anti-comics crusader Fredric Wertham in their new graphic novel, which offers a multifaceted portrait of a complex man who claimed that reading comics led to violence.