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Q & A with Dawn Quigley
We spoke with children’s author Dawn Quigley about her teaching career, what drives her to write stories featuring Indigenous characters, and why she believes there need to be a variety of voices when it comes to representation.
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Blind Spots: PW Talks with Souvankham Thammavongsa
The author’s first novel, ‘Pick a Color’ (Little, Brown, Sept.), explores the rich and mysterious inner life of a nail salon owner.
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Be Like Bruce: PW Talks with Jeff Chang
In Water Mirror Echo (Mariner, Sept.), the journalist tells the story of actor and martial artist Bruce Lee’s rise to fame alongside the cultural history of Asian America.
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In Conversation: Chelsea Lin Wallace and Thyra Heder
We asked author Chelsea Lin Wallace and illustrator Thyra Heder to discuss their new book, On Our Way with Mr. Jay, kicking off a series of picture books celebrating school heroes.
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Four Questions for Lisa Brown
We spoke with author, illustrator, and cartoonist Lisa Brown about her most recent picture book, The Moving Book—which was created in the same vein as The Airport Book and The Hospital Book—and her multifaceted artistic journey.
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Radical Time Warp: PW Talks to Ben Passmore
In ‘Black Arms to Hold You Up: A History of Black Resistance’ (Pantheon, Oct.), the Ignatz Award winner sends his cartoon avatar time traveling through Black history.
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Breaking Bread: PW Talks with Andy Shallal
In ‘A Seat at the Table’ (OR Books, Oct.), the restaurateur and activist details the founding of his Washington, D.C., eatery and bookstore Busboys and Poets, and offers insights on politics, food, immigration, and art.
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Not That Kind of Jew: PW Talks with Sarah Hurwitz
In ‘As a Jew’ (HarperOne, Sept.), former White House speechwriter Hurwitz explores the cultural forces that have shaped Jewish identity in America.
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Four Questions for Amar Shah
Set in the mid ’90s, 'Wish I Was a Baller' by Amar Shah is a graphic memoir that follows the author’s experiences as a teen sports journalist covering the golden era of the NBA.
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Return ‘Flight’: PW Talks with Kazu Kibuishi
This fall, Random House’s Inklore will reissue the influential Flight anthology series edited by Kibuishi, who discussed the process of bringing out the new editions and how his own impressions of the series have changed over the years.
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The Warmest Satirist You’ve Ever Met: PW Talks with Jess Walter
Walter’s latest novel, So Far Gone (Harper, out now), follows an unforgettable family, broken across three generations, trying to put itself back together again on a road trip around the Pacific Northwest.
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Beyond the Book: Jesse Byrd's 'Dream Warriors'
Award-winning children’s author, former college basketball star, and literary agent, Jesse Byrd, talks to his agent, Regina Brooks of Serendipity Literary, about the inspiration behind his new middle grade graphic novel, 'Dream Warriors.' (Sponsored)
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The Writer Who’s Getting Lisbeth Salander to Open Up: PW Talks with Karin Smirnoff
In ‘The Girl with Ice in Her Veins’ (Knopf, Sept.), the first female author of a Millennium series novel puts Lisbeth Salander’s niece at the center of a town’s violent struggle for mineral rights.
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The Key to Surviving: PW Talks with Daniel Gumbiner
The Believer editor talks about how the beloved Bay Area literary magazine was revived, what we can expect in its future, and why lit mags matter now more than ever.
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Beyond the Book: Sara Raasch and Beth Revis's 'Crimson Throne'
Sara Raasch and Beth Revis, whose new book 'The Crimson Throne' (Sourcebooks Fire) bows in October, spoke with PW about the draw of historical romantasy, literary Easter eggs, and the joys of tag-team writing. (Sponsored)
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‘Not Just a Literary Prize’: PW Talks with the 2025 Women’s Prize Winners
Yael van der Wouden and Rachel Clarke won this year’s Women’s Prizes for Fiction and Non-Fiction for their respective books The Safekeep and The Story of a Heart. The U.K.-based Women’s Prize for Fiction, which recognizes women novelists working in English, is now in its 30th year, while its sister award for nonfiction was launched in 2024.
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Q & A with Gus Gordon
Veteran illustrator Gus Gordon makes his solo graphic novel debut with the middle grade comic 'Into the Bewilderness.'
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From Censorship to Fascism to Extermination: PW Talks with Will Potter
In Little Red Barns (City Lights, July), the investigative journalist documents the decade he spent inside what he calls “secret world of disinformation, corporate corruption, and social control” while uncovering the connections between factory farming and the rise of authoritarianism in the U.S.
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