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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.
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The 10 Best Movies That Were Never Made
From a Pink Floyd/Dali version of "Dune" to Kubrick's "Napoleon," these are the best movies you'll never see.
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PW Picks: Books of the Week, February 17, 2014
This week, a retelling of Sleeping Beauty, true crime that calls to mind "In Cold Blood," and a massive engineering mistake.
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The Most Anticipated Books of Spring 2014
The big books of the season.
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10 Dirty Romance Novels
Steamy romance novels for the more sinful side of Valentine's Day, picked by Victoria Dahl.
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PW Picks: Books of the Week, February 10, 2014
This week: cows and UFOs in Mexico, "Robinson Crusoe" in space, and the best movies you'll never see.
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PW Picks: Books of the Week, February 3, 2014
This week, the superb first novel in a sci-fi/horror trilogy, why certain groups in the U.S. perform better than others, and a story collection that reads like a cross between Mary Gaitskill and Grace Paley.
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PW Picks: Books of the Week, January 27, 2014
This week, the best fictional treatment of the Dreyfus Affair yet, a Burroughs bio, and a life in Middlemarch. Plus: why are you so sad?
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The 10 Worst Jobs in Books
Book characters with way worse jobs than yours. Unless you're a scrivener.
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The 10 Best Contemporary War Novels
A surprise number one pick.
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PW Picks: Books of the Week, January 20, 2014
This week, the Rapture, an alien probe at the bottom of Lake Michigan, and Hitchcockian suspense at a museum.
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PW Picks: Books of the Week, January 13, 2014
This week, the true story that inspired Herman Melville, a pizza hotline, and a soldier's exorcism. Plus: a new translation of "The Human Comedy."
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The 9 Best Books That Don't Exist
The world would certainly be a better place if they did exist (except #4 and probably #1).
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PW Picks: Books of the Week, January 6, 2014
This week, 2014 gets a strong start with Chang-Rae Lee, Laurie Halse Anderson, and Gary Shteyngart. Plus: a book on a life spent reading.
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The Crossword Puzzle Turns 100
Do the world's first ever crossword puzzle!