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10 Best Road Books
Bill Bryson, L. Frank Baum, and more books about road trips to take on the road with you this summer.
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PW Picks: Books of the Week, May 5, 2014
This week, new Michael Cunningham, a big Michael Jordan biography, and an evil place called the Thickety.
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5 Writing Tips: Dinaw Mengestu
"Be generous to your characters: kill them, save them, break their hearts and then heal them."
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PW Picks: Books of the Week, April 28, 2014
This week, love and other foreign words, inside the ocean, and malevolent rabbits.
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PW Picks: Books of the Week, April 21, 2014
This week, Elizabeth McCracken's outstanding story collection, a true story of a changing brain, and a toy figurine with hidden meaning.
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13 Untranslatable Words
Notoriously difficult words to wrap your head around.
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PW Picks: Books of the Week, April 14, 2014
This week, the town the American Dream forgot, the eye-opening effects of technology, and an evil nanny.
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PW Picks: Books of the Week, April 7, 2014
This week, a "word flu" virus, new Lydia Davis, and fun with cryogenics.
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The 13 Best John Steinbeck Books
Celebrating the writer's best books on the 75th anniversary of "The Grapes of Wrath."
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PW Picks: Books of the Week, March 31, 2014
This week, a delightfully unlikable narrator, Emma Donoghue's latest, and the most dangerous man in America.
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How To Write A Personal Essay
Leslie Jamison, author of "The Empathy Exams," shares her secrets.
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PW Picks: Books of the Week, March 24, 2014
This week, evil teenagers, bad teeth, and a girl born with wings.
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The 10 Best Robert Frost Poems
The best poems from one of the greats.
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PW Picks: Books of the Week, March 17, 2014
This week, "Dr. Jekyll" from Hyde's perspective, wrestling wildlife in the jungle, and Michael Rockefeller's disappearance.
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How to Research Like a Writer
How to fit real-life information into your story without sacrificing or slowing down the story.
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PW Picks: Books of the Week, March 10, 2014
This week, Philip Marlowe returns, how Paris became Paris, and the book that powerful people don't want you to read.
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12 Books That End Mid-Sentence
Books that leave you hanging.
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PW Picks: Books of the Week, March 3, 2014
This week, a dangerous game in small-town America, a book that will get you obsessed with dinosaurs, and an extreme survival camp.
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How to Write YA
Author Seth Fishman shares six tips on how to tackle a YA novel.
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PW Picks: Books of the Week, February 24, 2014
This week, Lorrie Moore's first collection in 15 years, the award-winning novel that was rejected by over 60 publishers, and what neuroscience can tell us about joy and anger.