International Adoption, Child-Trafficking, and China’s One Child Policy: PW Talks with Barbara Demick
In Daughters of the Bamboo Grove (Random House, May), the journalist profiles twins separated as toddlers by China’s one child policy and America’s demand for international adoptees. more...
Dennis McNally Is Still Dreaming After All These Years
In his latest book, the historian and former Grateful Dead publicist looks back on the origins of the 1960s counterculture and explains how the hippies changed America. more...
It’s All Greek to Stephen Fry
The author and entertainer returns with a conversational retelling of ‘The Odyssey’ that keys into the tale’s timeless appeal. more...
Unparenting the American Dream: PW Talks with Marina Lopes
In Please Yell at My Kids, Brazilian American journalist Marina Lopes encourages American parents to rethink rugged individualism and offers internationally tested advice on building the proverbial village. more...and more.
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InterviewsMichael O’Mara Refelcts on 40 Years of Publishing
The U.K. pubisher has survived waves of digital disruption and is now launching a U.S. list
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Interviews
The Enduring Relevance of a 75-Year-Old Hollywood Satire: PW Talks with David M. Lubin
In ‘Ready for My Closeup’ (Grand Central, Aug.), the film professor takes readers behind the scenes of the 1950 film ‘Sunset Boulevard.’
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Interviews
Age of Uncertainty: PW Talks with Angela Flournoy
Ten years after her critically acclaimed debut, the author returns with ‘The Wilderness’ (Mariner, Sept.), a story of five Black women and their bonds as they approach middle age.
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Profiles
Peter Orner’s Healthy Obsession
In his latest novel, Peter Orner uses a real-life unsolved murder from the 1960s to explore the nature of storytelling.
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Interviews
In and Out of the Dark: PW Talks with Hala Alyan
The poet and novelist’s first foray into memoir, I’ll Tell You When I’m Home (Avid Reader, June), explores the act of mothering across multiple generations.
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Interviews
The Greatest Mistake of Human History: PW Talks with Victoria Bateman
In Economica, Bateman explains that we ignore women’s historical contributions to societal wealth at our own peril.
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Profiles
Jason Mott Is Living the Dream
The National Book Award winner returns with a timely novel about gun violence and a rediscovered sense of creative freedom.
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Interviews
New York’s 1980s and the Rise of the Tabloid Titans: PW Talks with Jonathan Mahler
The ‘New York Times Magazine’ staff writer’s ‘The Gods of New York’ (Random House, Aug.) surveys the overlapping crises facing New York City in the last four years of the 1980s and profiles the power brokers who defined the era.
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Interviews
A Girl and a God: PW Talks with Michelle Wong
The graphic novel illustrator makes her prose debut with ‘House of the Beast’ (Harper Voyager, Aug.), a dark fantasy about a poor girl plotting revenge against her noble father with the aid of a dangerous god.
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Stepping into the Calling: PW Talks with Susan McPherson
The David C Cook editor founded Esther Press, an imprint publishing spiritual books by and for women, to encourage women writers to “step into their calling.”
