In Conversation

Inviting History to Dinner with Victor Piñeiro
Time travel in fiction often requires an elaborate device, like a machine, or a tear in the fabric of reality. In Victor Piñeiro’s middle grade novel Time Villains, it begins with a dinner invitati...
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Weathering the Storm with Rebecca Mix
It was a cold afternoon in January when I spoke with Rebecca Mix. Snow had been threatening all morning, the kind of winter light that makes it hard to tell what time it is. Our conversation focuse...
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Reading the Sky with Britney Truempy
Weather forecasts are usually delivered as data, but under the surface is something more subjective. Two meteorologists can study the same model and arrive at different conclusions, and two writers...
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Keeping Time with Ann Napolitano
We talk about time as if it’s fixed, but most of us know it’s anything but. An hour can stretch or disappear depending on what life asks of us, and very few novelists make that instability feel as ...
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