Interviews and Conversations

Small Spaces, Katherine Arden’s atmospheric middle grade horror quartet, comes to a close with Empty Smiles, which features the final, frightening face-off between Ollie, Coco, and Brian and the smiling...

The Texas Book Festival, one of the largest literary festivals in the country, announced its lineup of more than 200 authors. The fest returns to Austin with a mix of...

Letters are more than just exercises in politeness, How to Send a Hug’s young narrator points out; they’re a way to send a warm hug to a distant loved one....

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SVbKV8ER9zUhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SVbKV8ER9zU The Atlantic Council’s Digital Forensic Research Lab is pleased to announce a virtual book launch event and conversation with the authors of SYSTEM ERROR: Where Big Tech Went Wrong...

By Patricia J. Murphy | As a child, Emma Bland Smith fell in love with Robert McCloskey’s books. This affection has continued as a librarian in the San Francisco Public...

Clunes, the bibliophile capital of regional Victoria, is set to come alive this autumn in a celebration of books, words, writers and renowned authors following a two-year hiatus. For two days,...

As actors, husband and wife Jazmyn Simon and Dulé Hill have worked on several projects together, including HBO’s Ballers, the Psych movies on Peacock, and ABC’s The Wonder Years. Inspired...

By Michael M. Jones | While musician Colin Meloy may be best known for his long-running stint as frontman of the indie-rock band The Decemberists, he’s also an accomplished middle...

By Patricia J. Murphy | Heather Ayris Burnell grows book collections, readers… and garlic. As a children’s author, Washington State librarian, and a garlic farmer, she gets books into kids'...

In this action-packed adventure from a New York Times bestselling author, two teenagers from opposite worlds must fight their way through a vast walled quarantine zone in a dystopian America toward their...