Interviews and Conversations

Growing up in Brooklyn in the early 1950s, Avi had a first-hand brush with some of the fallout of the Red Scare. In his latest novel, Catch You Later, Traitor,...

GENA KITTNER For the State Journal A couple of years ago, Madison resident Brooke Saucier dusted off a children’s book he’d written and kept on a thumb drive for 17...

The Press recently interviewed Mahtomedi resident Vicki Toups Sheaffer about the publication of her new children's book, “Oh Mother How Funny,” in collaboration with Kristie Kaiser Frudden, also of Mahtomedi,...

She’s written picture books, middle-grade fiction, and young adult novels, but Rachel Vail breaks new ground as an author in her latest novel, Justin Case: School, Drool, and Other Daily...

  The Auckland Writers Festival has set central Tāmaki Makaurau abuzz this week with a strong lineup of leading local and international authors, panel discussions, and events, including the Ockham New...

Teacher turned filmmaker Nick Brooks follows up his middle grade debut Nothing Ever Happens to Ethan Fairmont with a highly anticipated foray into YA, a thriller called Promise Boys. In...

Susi Q’s Evening with an Author to feature Pulitzer Prize winner Héctor Tobar Susi Q’s next Evening with An Author will feature Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist and novelist Héctor Tobar, the...

SF Said is the author of the Varjak Paw books about a cat with mystical fighting skills. He won the Smarties Gold Book Prize for...

With his new novel The Dead Republic, acclaimed Dublin author Roddy Doyle completes a trilogy that began with 1999’s A Star Called Henry, focused on the character of Henry Smart,...

“The truth is rarely pure and never simple,” wrote Oscar Wilde, a sentiment that underscores PEN/Hemingway Award-winner **Jennifer Haigh’**s ripped-from-the-headlines fourth novel, Faith, which is, at its purest and simplest...