Jon Klassen just won the Astrid Lindgren Memorial Award and, in this Q&A, traces his eerie new board book back to Zelda's early dungeon screens and high school guided meditation tapes. He also explains why he hopes never to find out how hard his die-cut, doorway-shaped book was to actually print.
— via Literary Hub, Janet Manley
Before the knee, there was a book list. Colin Kaepernick's memoir traces his political awakening to a girlfriend who handed him "The Autobiography of Malcolm X" at 27, sending him into Fanon, Baldwin and Huey Newton while he wrestled with an existential crisis over whether football was all he had to offer.
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Nobel laureate Svetlana Alexievich admits she sometimes fuses two people's testimony into one voice, disguising identities while keeping the account "nonfiction." The confession surfaces in a new interview released alongside a Chernobyl-set oral history first published in the Review two decades ago.
— via The Paris Review, The Paris Review
Two sisters-in-grief, one publisher, books out a month apart: both lost siblings to overdose in 2015, both writing through new motherhood. One traces a podcast's 25-episode search for what could have saved her brother; the other started as letters to her dead sister's dealer.
— via Literary Hub, Nadia Bowers and Stephanie Wittels Wachs
Bestselling author Elizabeth Acevedo picks three YA novels tackling anxiety, PTSD and assault without lecturing readers. From a multigenerational Filipino family saga to a verse novel about surviving molestation, each shows teens finding their own paths through therapy, music and journaling.
— via Book Riot, Guest
Her new memoir, BROTHERS AND SISTERS, will publish in April 2027.
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