NEW YORK — Hervé Tullet has created over 80 books, perhaps most famously the bestselling, interactive “Press Here,” which invites children to touch and shake its pages. His latest project is “The Ideal Exhibition,” a series of workshops he conducts around the world in which attendees are invited to participate in the art-making process. We spoke at his studio on the top floor of the brownstone he lives in with his family in Manhattan’s Harlem neighborhood. These are edited excerpts from our c...
It’s easy to see how “Born a Crime,” Trevor Noah’s funny and devastating memoir of growing up mixed race in South Africa, became a best-seller. Less predictable was the success of the book’s young readers’ edition, published this month and aimed at children 8 and up. I asked the comedian and talk show host to talk about adapting his story for a much younger audience. These are excerpts from our conversation.
Few first novelists have the kind of success Angie Thomas saw with “The Hate U Give,” which has spent 100 weeks on the Times Best-Seller list and been made into an equally acclaimed movie. Perhaps even fewer write a second novel that gets as many advance raves as Thomas’ “On the Come Up,” which will be published this month. It’s set in the same fictional community, Garden Heights, as “The Hate U Give,” but Thomas turns her attention away from Starr (the protagonist in her first novel) to the ...
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