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“We’re All the Products of Housework”: PW Talks with Emily Callaci
Historian Callaci delves into the 1970s movement to demand fair pay for household labor in ‘Wages for Housework: The Feminist Fight Against Unpaid Labor’ (Seal, Mar.).
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Q & A with Danielle Parker
PW spoke with Parker about her new YA romance, 'Love on Paper,' her success with Pitch Wars, and her experiences as a teacher.
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The Blessing of Culture Shock: PW Talks with Rick Steves
‘On the Hippie Trail’ is a portrait of the venerable travel writer as a young man in 1978, when he and his friend Gene Openshaw ventured overland from Istanbul to Kathmandu.
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The Indie Publishing Outlook for 2025: PW Talks with Andrea Fleck-Nisbet
The Independent Book Publishers Association CEO talks about what’s on tap after her organization merges with PubWest later this year, and what indie publishers can expect to see in the year ahead.
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Saline and Secrets: PW Talks with Katy Hays
A wealthy family comes apart at the seams in ‘Saltwater’ (Ballantine, Mar.), Hays's devilish sophomore thriller.
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Your Mind Is Not Your Own: PW Talks with Rebecca Lemov
In ‘The Instability of Truth: Brainwashing, Mind Control, and Hyper-Persuasion’ (Norton, Mar.), historian Lemov explores how brainwashing plays out in Chinese reeducation camps, American universities, and elsewhere.
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Finishing the Book Is Just the Beginning: PW Talks with Malcolm Gladwell
The popular podcaster and author of 'Revenge of the Tipping Point' shares how his thinking about producing, publishing, and promoting books has evolved in the 25 years since he first became a bestseller.
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Four Questions for Kami Garcia
Young adult author and graphic novelist Kami Garcia releases her first middle grade graphic novel 'Mixed-Up', illustrated by Brittney Williams, which follows a creative fifth grader navigating a dyslexia diagnosis.
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The Far Corners of This World: PW Talks with Mike Mignola
The creator of Hellboy returns to comics on January 22 with the debut anthology volume in a series called Lands Unknown, published by a new Dark Horse Comics imprint, Curious Objects. Mignola spoke with PW about folklore, worldbuilding, and more.
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Q & A with Maria van Lieshout
Maria van Lieshout’s YA graphic novel 'Song of a Blackbird,' brings a little-known piece of World War II history to the fore.
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What’s Driving the Christian Publishing Boom: PW Talks with Andrea Doering
With Christian living and fiction titles having seen huge sales gains over the past two years, the editorial director of Baker Publishing Group’s Revell imprint talks about why more readers are looking for inspiration in new places.
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Sex During Lockdown: PW Talks with Amy Shearn
In the novelist’s ‘Animal Instinct,’ an app developer and recent divorcee experiments with online dating during the Covid-19 lockdown.
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Probability Doesn’t Exist (Probably): PW Talks with David Spiegelhalter
In ‘The Art of Uncertainty: How to Navigate Chance, Ignorance, Risk and Luck’ (Norton, Mar.), the statistician explores how to think about what one doesn’t know.
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Q & A with Mina Fears
“I’m really honored to be part of this rapidly developing landscape of fantasy written by Black authors,” says Mina Fears while discussing her debut YA novel, 'The Scorpion Queen,' a fantasy novel based in often unexplored Malian history and mythology.
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Oceans Apart: Children's Author Padma Venkatraman Showcases BIPOC Scientists
Author Padma Venkatraman reflects on her education in STEM, the challenges facing BIPOC women in science, and her forthcoming middle grade novel, 'Safe Harbor.'
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Four Questions for Gianna Marino
In author-illustrator Gianna Marino's latest picture book, a loving older horse encourages a pony in its care to “run wild” and spend the day exploring a lush meadow, assuring the young one that “I will always be there.”
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Double Trouble: PW Talks with Sanjena Sathian
The 2021 Writer to Watch honoree's sophomore novel, 'Goddess Complex' (Penguin Press, Mar.), follows a woman named Sanjana Satyananda who discovers she has a double, an Indian fertility influencer named Sanjena Sathian.
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Her Sister’s Keeper: PW Talks with Amal El-Mohtar
Two sisters who guard the woods that separate their town from fairyland are courted by their power-hungry neighbor in the Hugo Award winner's 'The River Has Roots' (Tordotcom, Mar.).
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Unfree Speech: PW Talks with David Enrich
In 'Murder the Truth: Fear, the First Amendment, and a Secret Campaign to Protect the Powerful' (Mariner, Mar.), the 'New York Times' editor exposes a right-wing push to undo journalists’ protection from libel lawsuits by overturning the Supreme Court’s 1964 decision in 'New York Times Co. v. Sullivan.'
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To Give Voice to the Dead: PW Talks with Chris Bohjalian
Chris Bohjalian, the bestselling author of 24 books, discusses the balancing act of writing both drama and fiction and why his novel 'The Sandcastle Girls,' about the Armenian genocide, remains the closest to his heart out of any of his works.