“Diary of a Wimpy Kid” author Jeff Kinney has been contemplating mortality. Specifically, Greg Heffley’s. In “Partypooper,” Kinney’s latest “Diary of a Wimpy Kid” book (out now from Abrams), ...

When I wrote Diary of a Wimpy Kid, I pictured it in the humor section of the bookstore. It was the only section I thought a book like this could go. During the whole eight or nine-year stretch when I ...

A lot has happened in the 18 years since the first “Diary of a Wimpy Kid.” There has been a pandemic, huge jumps in advanced technology and new even popes. Through it all, "Wimpy Kid" main character ...