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PW Picks: Books of the Week, May 25, 2015
This week: a brain surgeon's memoir, Robert McCammon's latest, and a page-turning mystery set in the Arctic.
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Never Get Good At What You Hate: Advice for Graduates
"I’d never stuck with anything that I was bad at. Writing is the first. Maybe because when I began, I didn’t care if I was good or bad. I just loved who I was when I was doing it."
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10 Best Dark Books
Picked by Amelia Gray.
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PW Picks: Books of the Week, May 18, 2015
This week: a book within a book, the end of the U.S. space program, and solitude in New York City.
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Why I Read the Most Controversial Books in Print Today
What you'll find on the dark side of literature.
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PW Picks: Books of the Week, May 11, 2015
This week, Sally Mann's amazing memoir, original sin, and the latest from Anne Enright.
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PW Picks: Books of the Week, May 4, 2015
This week: David McCullough on the Wright Brothers, Kate Atkinson's follow-up to "Life After Life," and the definitive biography of Saul Bellow.
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The 10 Best T. S. Eliot Poems
Prufrock, "The Waste Land," and more.
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PW Picks: Books of the Week, April 27, 2015
This week: Werner Herzog walks on ice, Oliver Sacks's new memoir, and the golden age of murder.
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PW Picks: Books of the Week, April 20, 2015
This week, Toni Morrison's new novel, the story of Anders Breivik and the Massacre in Norway, and Montmartre at the beginning of modernism.
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How To Become a Better Reader in 10 Steps
Gretchen Rubin, author of "The Happiness Project," on how to become a better reader.
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5 Writing Tips: Ann Packer
Tips from the bestselling author of "The Dive From Clausen's Pier" and the new novel "The Children's Crusade."
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PW Picks: Books of the Week, April 13, 2015
This week: our future in space, Chigozie Obioma's wonderful debut novel, and new Amelia Gray.
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PW Picks: Books of the Week, April 6, 2015
This week: Larry Kramer's epic novel 30 years in the making, new Ann Packer, and the life of a "New Yorker" copyeditor.
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What Exactly Was Joseph Mitchell Doing All Those Years at 'The New Yorker'?
He showed up for work, the magazine kept paying him, but he published nothing for over 30 years. One of the great literary mysteries is finally solved.
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10 Best Southern Gothic Books
Flannery O'Connor, William Faulkner, and more.
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PW Picks: Books of the Week, March 30, 2015
This week, Jon Ronson's fascinating exploration of shaming, Pulitzer-winner Tracy K. Smith's wonderful memoir, and how to clone a mammoth.
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10 Best Coming-of-Age Books You've Never Read
Diamonds in the rough.
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PW Picks: Books of the Week, March 23, 2015
This week, Colm Toibin on Elizabeth Bishop, and a new Sherlock Holmes mystery.
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Why Writing is So Hard
Matt Sumell, author of the exceptional "Making Nice," on writing as an "emotionally expensive" undertaking.