The Book of V.E. Schwab's Heart
The author's next novel, ‘The Invisible Life of Addie LaRue,’ was nearly a decade in the making. more...Shared Work of Resistance: PW Talks with Willie James Jennings
Jennings’s 'After Whiteness' (Eerdmans, Oct.) critiques Western higher education as a system formed to create and sustain white supremacy. more...and more.
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Interviews
A Recipe for the New Age: PW Talks with Sam Sifton
In 'No-Recipe Recipes' (Ten Speed, Mar.) Sifton, founding editor of NYT Cooking, envisions the future of recipes.
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Interviews
When Push Comes to Shove: PW Talks with Nimmi Gowrinathan
In 'Radicalizing Her' (Beacon, Apr.), journalist Gowrinathan examines the motivations of female resistance fighters.
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Interviews
The Jesus Year: PW Talks with Kirstin Valdez Quade
'The Five Wounds' (Norton, Apr.) examines a Latinx man’s desire for redemption on the eve of his performance as Jesus in a New Mexico Passion play.
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Interviews
Hollywood Noir: PW Talks with Ava Barry
In Barry’s 'Windhall' (Pegasus Crime, Mar.), an unsolved 1948 murder obsesses L.A. journalist Max Hailey decades later.
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Profiles
Lisa Scottoline Heads to Rome In Her New Novel
In her first historical novel, 'Eternal,' the bestselling author tackles a story that’s been percolating in her mind for decades.
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Profiles
Writers to Watch Spring 2021
This season’s hot debuts include a psychological thriller about a young woman who will stop at nothing to achieve her writerly ambition, a systems novel set in Las Vegas, and more.
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Interviews
Legitimate Experiences: PW talks with Krys Malcolm Belc
The author of ‘The Natural Mother of the Child’ (Counterpoint, June) describes what it means to be “not a mom, and not in the fatherhood realm.”
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Profiles
Russell Banks's Book of Canadian Homesick Blues
In the author's new novel, 'Foregone,' an aging filmmaker who fled the U.S. during the Vietnam War looks back.
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BookLife
Autofiction: What It Is and What It Isn’t
Whether writing autobiographical fiction or memoir, writers must own their truths.
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BookLife
First Lines: January 2021
Our monthly look at some of the best first lines by BookLife authors.