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Jan 15, 2025 | 
rd.com | Sona Charaipotra
We asked the owners of our favorite romance bookstores to share their must-read romance novels—happy endings nonnegotiable.
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Nov 26, 2024 | 
msn.com | Sona Charaipotra
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Nov 26, 2024 | 
huffpost.com | Sona Charaipotra
Author Samira Ahmed’s latest young-adult novel, “This Book Won’t Burn,” is nothing if not timely. The book, which hit shelves in May, centers on Noor Khan, a high school senior who discovers that the library at her new school is being ravaged by book banners who have been slowly (but legally) swiping books right off the shelves — and most of the books are by writers of color or queer authors. It’s a page torn right out of her own real-life experience.
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Nov 26, 2024 | 
flipboard.com | Sona Charaipotra
1 day agoLong before Ariana Grande and Cynthia Erivo were holding space for the lyrics of “Defying Gravity,” there was “Wicked” the Broadway musical. And before that, there was “Wicked: The Life and Times of the Wicked Witch of the West,” by Gregory Maguire, based on L. Frank Baum’s characters in “The …
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Nov 15, 2024 | 
publishersweekly.com | Sona Charaipotra
While 2024 has been perhaps the busiest and most hectic year of her career, Nnedi Okorafor wouldn’t have it any other way. She was inducted into the Science Fiction & Fantasy Hall of Fame in July. She published the novella She Who Knows: Firespitter in August. She’s currently promoting her new autobiographical novel, Death of the Author,out in January from Morrow. That will be followed by a second novella, One Way Witch, and a graphic novel, The Space Cat, both due in 2025.
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Oct 25, 2024 | 
publishersweekly.com | Sona Charaipotra
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Jul 26, 2024 | 
publishersweekly.com | Sona Charaipotra
Though Danzy Senna isn’t waiting for her Hollywood moment, she has been marking time until she felt ready to write a novel about her adopted hometown.“I’ve been wanting to write my L.A. novel for 20 years,” she says via Zoom from her Los Angeles home. The room is sunny, and Senna is dressed in a white button-down, her long, dark brown hair framing her face.
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May 17, 2024 | 
publishersweekly.com | Sona Charaipotra
After six novels—most of them bestsellers named to end-of-the-year lists by the likes of People, Time, and the Washington Post—J. Courtney Sullivan just might have figured out her writing process. “I feel like I’m starting to realize a pattern,” she says via Zoom from a small office at her mother-in-law’s house in Des Moines, Iowa, where she’s hiding out, thrilled to be talking books while grandma looks after the kids.
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Dec 15, 2023 | 
publishersweekly.com | Sona Charaipotra
photo credit: Pauline St.Denis Tia Williams Tia Williams is having a moment. Sleek and elegant—and looking very much like a former beauty magazine editor—she’s settled into a cozy booth at the Smith, an upscale diner in New York City’s NoMad neighborhood, and ordered her first hot chocolate in forever, albeit without whipped cream. “I’m learning to celebrate the small moments,” she says, sipping the cocoa.
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Nov 22, 2023 | 
parents.com | Sona Charaipotra |Maurice Sendak |Jamilah Thompkins-Bigelow |Hatem Aly
As a writer, a reader, and a parent, one of the things I'm most grateful for this year—and every year—is books. And I know I'm not alone. So these Parents gathered some of your favorite children's book authors to ask them about the one book they're most thankful for. Because there's nothing like snuggling up with a cozy read after you've gathered to break bread with friends and family. And with picks from picture books to adult, there's something on this reading list for everyone in your family.
