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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.
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PW Picks: Books of the Week, March 16, 2015
This week: Ayn Rand's connection to the 2008 financial collapse, America's youngest serial killer, and a modern retelling of "Madame Bovary."
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PW Picks: Books of the Week, March 9, 2015
This week: Erik Larson's account of the 'Lusitania,' and a coming-of-age novel about a girl...who's also a cannibal.
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The Fall of Language in the Age of English
The fate of national languages when English has become the world’s dominant “universal” language.
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Staff Pick: ‘The Smell of Other People’s Houses’ by Bonnie-Sue Hitchcock
Associate children's books editor Natasha Gilmore recommends ‘The Smell of Other People’s Houses’ by Bonnie-Sue Hitchcock; set in the Fairbanks of the 1970s, the 'masterful novel' follows the lives of four very different teens.
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Who’s the Greatest Unreliable Narrator in Literature?
Jeremy M. Davies and Colin Winnette debate and settle it once and for all (maybe).
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PW Picks: Books of the Week, March 2, 2015
This week: new Kazuo Ishiguro, and the controversial "The Bunker Diary."
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Why James Baldwin's FBI File Was 1,884 Pages
The weird, secret world of FBI files as literary criticism.
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PW Picks: Books of the Week, February 23, 2015
This week: Umberto Eco tells you how to write a thesis.
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10 Best Historical Romance Novels
Beverly Jenkins picks her favorites.