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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 electromagnetic radiation,” and I was like, really, little Bobby does? Or maybe you do? I’d start ...

The Evolution of Morgan Parker By L’Oreal Thompson Payton | Apr 16, 2021 Allow Morgan Parker to reintroduce herself. Months ahead of the reissue of her out-of-print 2015 poetry collection, Other People’s Comfort Keeps Me Up at Night (Tin House, July), she is reflecting on how far she’s come and where she’s going next. “It’ll be interesting to know how folks come to my work—if they’ve read my other books and are returning to Other People’s Comfort Keeps Me Up at Night or if this is their first introduction,” she says. “Because as an introductio...

By Katrina Niidas Holm | In Afia’s debut, Dead Dead Girls (Berkley Prime Crime, June.), Louise Lloyd, a Black former showgirl, reluctantly helps police hunt a serial killer in 1920s Harlem. What inspired this book? I wrote it for National Novel Writing Month in 2016. I had just finished writing a romance, and I wanted to challenge myself, so I decided to write a mystery. I was watching a lot of Prohibition era–set TV, and I was also studying that period in my history class, so I was like, “I love this era! I’m going to write a Prohibition-era mystery!”