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In her new novel, The President and the Frog, the author explores narrative’s power to heal political and personal wounds

James Lee Burke Goes Time Traveling By Ed Nawotka | Jun 04, 2021 James Lee Burke’s office in his home outside Missoula, Mont., as seen on a Zoom call, is cluttered with the detritus of a long literary life. There are books, photographs, a clutch of pens, and family heirlooms, including a Confederate sword carried by his great grandfather through the Civil War. The tenor of Burke’s voice is a bit like the wheels on a Ford F-150 rolling down a highway: bass tones highli...

In Kleeman’s Something New Under the Sun (Hogarth, Aug.), a writer assists with the film adaptation of his novel and, along with a former child star, tries to unravel the secrets of WAT-R, a synthetic water product.

Booksellers, publishers, librarians, and agents are encouraged to look at the 79 self-published titles below. Each appears with a list of retailers that are selling the book and a description provided by its author.

Like her self-described “nice Jewish girl” protagonist Rachel Rubenstein-Goldblatt, debut rom-com author Jean Meltzer has a secret: she adores Christmas.

Writing an Old Friend: Spotlight on J. William Lewis The teenage protagonist in J. William Lewis’s debut novel, The Essence of Nathan Biddle, seeks to answer life’s biggest questions May 24, 2021 An uncle who enacts a deranged Christian test of faith, a high school teacher who encourages poetry writing, and an ill-fated joyride in a stolen maintenance vehicle. These are the characters and events that shape the sprawling debut bildungsroman from J. William Lewis, set in the...

In this roundup of the best-reviewed BookLife titles, we highlight a mystery concerning public pension plans, a thriller about hunting humans, and more.

Meet the Finalists of the 2020 BookLife Prize in Nonfiction By PW Staff By PW Staff | May 12, 2021 Four books were selected by a panel of guest judges as the finalists for the 2020 BookLife Prize Nonfiction Contest. One title was chosen from each of the following genres: Self-Help/Relationships, Memoir/Autobiography, Inspirational/Spiritual, and Business/Personal Finance. Here we meet the finalists who are each now in-the-running for the grand prize, which will be a...

A pulpy graphic novel series transports readers to 1980s Los Angeles Apr 22, 2021 In the Reckless series of graphic novels, written by Ed Brubaker and illustrated by Sean Phillips, a principled—if unorthodox—private eye looks back on his career as a “trouble-maker for hire.” In the latest book, Friend of the Devil, Ethan Reckless investigates the disappearance of a missing woman and, in the process, exposes a seedy and sinister side of Hollywood. The longtime collaborators spoke t...

By Lenny Picker | In You’ve been a science educator and children’s book author for a while. What led you to write this book? I’ve been doing Kate the Chemist—where I travel across the country and blow stuff up for kids to make science fun, exciting, and entertaining—for three or four years. At the end of my shows, I always get kids running up with questions, but I started to notice that parents were coming up, too. They were saying, “Little Bobby has a question about el...