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PW Picks: Books of the Week, July 3, 2017

| 06/30/2017 @ 05:00AM

This week: a thriller featuring a creepy DVD, plus an excellent essay collection about the beauty of everyday mundanities.
10 Book Characters We Love to Hate

By Grant Ginder | 06/23/2017 @ 05:00AM

Including Polonius, Victor Frankenstein, and more.
PW Picks: Books of the Week, June 26, 2017

| 06/23/2017 @ 05:00AM

This week: the true story of the year-long quest to catch a Greenland shark, which can live up to 400 years.
Staff Pick: 'Fear City' by Kim Phillips-Fein

by Alex Crowley | 06/16/2017 @ 10:00AM

Reviews editor Alex Crowley recommends 'Fear City' by Kim Phillips-Fein, which explores the destructive rise of Neoliberalism in the wake of 1960s social upheaval and global economic shocks of the early 1970s.
PW Picks: Books of the Week, June 19, 2017

| 06/16/2017 @ 05:00AM

This week: Don Winslow's latest novel, plus what happens between life and death.
The 10 Best John Ashbery Poems

By Karin Roffman | 06/16/2017 @ 05:00AM

Picked by Karin Roffman, author of 'The Songs We Know Best: John Ashbery's Early Life.'
Staff Pick: 'Rampage' by Justin Scott

By Peter Cannon | 06/09/2017 @ 10:22AM

A thriller first published in 1986 and set in the world of New York real estate development reads as fresh now as when it came out. And not just because Trump gets a mention.
PW Picks: Books of the Week, June 12, 2017

| 06/09/2017 @ 05:00AM

This week: new books from Roxane Gay, Teju Cole, and more.
10 Things You Probably Didn't Know About F. Scott Fitzgerald

By David S. Brown | 06/09/2017 @ 05:00AM

Including: his last royalty check was for $13.13.
5 Writing Tips: Jeff VanderMeer

By Jeff VanderMeer | 06/02/2017 @ 05:00AM

"But at some point, no matter how good your partial or rough draft is, you may also have to methodically test your novel—in all ways, from the structure down to the paragraph level."
PW Picks: Books of the Week, June 5, 2017

| 06/02/2017 @ 05:00AM

This week: Anthony Horowitz's brilliant Agatha Christie–like mystery, plus an investigation into the Donner Party.
Staff Pick: 'The Others' by Matthew Rohrer

By John Maher | 05/26/2017 @ 10:45AM

Associate editor John Maher tells a ghost story and recommends Matthew Rohrer's otherworldly Russian nesting doll of a novel in verse, 'The Others.'
PW Picks: Books of the Week, May 29, 2017

| 05/26/2017 @ 05:00AM

This week: David Sedaris's diaries, plus the complete Jack Reacher stories.
The Weird World of Book Blurbs

By Barbara Browning | 05/26/2017 @ 05:00AM

Barbara Browning, author of the new novel, 'The Gift,' dives into the strange process of how books get blurbed.
PW Picks: Books of the Week, May 22, 2017

| 05/19/2017 @ 05:00AM

This week: a wonderful biography of F. Scott Fitzgerald, plus the controversial novel that inspired last year's hit movie 'Elle.'
The 10 Best True Crime Books

By Alexandria Marzano-Lesnevich | 05/19/2017 @ 05:00AM

Books by Truman Capote, Janet Malcolm, Dave Cullen, and more.
How to Write Suspense

By Bryn Chancellor | 05/12/2017 @ 05:00AM

Bryn Chancellor, author of the riveting novel, 'Sycamore,' on what exactly makes suspense work.
PW Picks: Books of the Week, May 15, 2017

| 05/12/2017 @ 05:00AM

This week: werewolves in the Adirondacks, plus the thrilling story of Apollo 8.
Staff Pick: 'Nutshell' by Ian McEwan

By Carl Pritzkat | 05/05/2017 @ 11:20AM

PW's vice president of business development recommends Ian McEwan's 'Nutshell,' a novel about a fetus who overhears its mother plotting the murder of its father.
PW Picks: Books of the Week, May 8, 2017

| 05/05/2017 @ 05:00AM

This week: Colm Tóibín’s retelling of the ancient Greek tale of Clytemnestra, plus Darwin's forgotten theory of mate choice.

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