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When Alt Goes Mainstream: PW Talks with Peter Ames Carlin
In The Name of This Band Is R.E.M. (Doubleday, Nov.), journalist Carlin traces how the rock group shaped the genre.
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Lovely, Dark and Deep: PW Talks with Julia Heffernan
Painter Julie Heffernan’s lush, surrealism-infused graphic memoir debut, Babe in the Woods: The Art of Getting Lost (Algonquin, Sept.), follows her winding path through fear and memory after taking the wrong turn on a hike with her infant son.
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In Conversation: Wade Hudson and Don Tate
We asked author Wade Hudson and illustrator Don Tate to discuss their new picture book, 'The Day Madear Voted,' which traces one Black family’s journey to the polls in 1969.
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Q & A with Tricia Levenseller
An ambitious teenager will stop at nothing to get what she wants in 'The Darkness Within Us,' the companion novel to YA romantasy author Tricia Levenseller's viral BookTok sensation 'The Shadows Between Us.'
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Beyond the Book: Katherine Arden's 'The Strangest Fish'
In her debut picture book, The Strangest Fish (Astra Young Readers, Sept.), award-winning fantasy author Katherine Arden (the Winternight trilogy and the Small Spaces Quartet series) follows a girl who wins a secretly powerful fish at the county fair. PW spoke with Arden about writing for very young readers and how her dog, Moose, inspires her fiction. (Sponsored)
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The Coming Storm: PW Talks with Porter Fox
In ‘Category Five,’ the ‘Nowhere’ magazine editor describes how climate change is making storms more intense.
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Blood in the Water: PW Talks with Hailey Piper
The murder of a trans teen reveals the dark, vampiric underbelly of a quaint beach town in Hailey Piper’s horror novel 'All the Hearts You Eat.'
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Q & A with Jill Baguchinsky
Jill Baguchinsky—the author of contemporary YA novel 'Mammoth'—goes dark and moody in 'So Witches We Became,' a supernatural YA horror novel.
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The Holocaust Doesn’t Come Out of Nowhere: PW Talks with Solomon J. Brager
The author of 'Heavyweight,' which draws lines between the German genocide of the Herero and Nama peoples in South Africa and the Holocaust, hopes that memory and narrative can create a more inclusive culture—one with ample humor and creativity.
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ALA 2024: Q & As with Featured Children's Authors
We spoke with six authors of books for young readers ahead of their appearances at the ALA annual conference in San Diego.
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