19 June 2023
In 2015, PW first interviewed Emily Knox for her then-new Book Banning in 21st-Century America, a fascinating exploration of how and why people challenge books and what those challenges tell us about the immense power of reading. Read more
On literary snobbery
‘I always quote Kurt Vonnegut. He said in the early part of his career he was dismissed as a science fiction writer and that critics tend to put genre books, including sci-fi, in the bottom drawer of their desk... It's true. I get the New York Times every Sunday. In 37 novels, I've never had a stand-alone review. I'm always in the crime round-up. Read more