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The Top 10 Literary Landmarks of the South
Trish Foxwell's A Visitor's Guide to the Literary South is an essential companion for anyone traveling through the South who also happens to love books. Foxwell picked some of the region's best literary spots for PW.
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PW Picks: The Best New Books for the Week of September 9, 2013
This week, Suzanne Collins's picture book, Paul Harding's second novel, and Jonathan Lethem's latest. Plus: a horror book that will draw deserved comparisons to Stephen King.
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Why Don't We Want to Live Forever?
The age-old question is finally answered.
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PW Picks: The Best New Books for the Week of September 2, 2013
This week: new Margaret Atwood, new J. M. Coetzee, new Daniel Woodrell. Also, a must-read poetry collection.
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7 Timeless Coming-of-Age Novels
Donna Tartt, Charles Dickens, and more.
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PW Picks: The Best New Books for the Week of August 26, 2013
This week, the dead return to life, blood-pumping episodes of derring-do and heroism, and Amy Grace Loyd's The Affairs of Others. Plus: the latest from Edwidge Danticat.
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The American Conspiracy Theory
Jesse Walker, author of The United States of Paranoia, takes us inside 5 conspiracy theories.
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PW Picks: The Best New Books for the Week of August 19, 2013
This week, the newest from the author of Schindler's List, the letters of an underrated novelist, and the wonderful new novel from James McBride. Plus: a hard look at immortality.
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Books Are Broken-Limbed Baby Dolls: PW Talks with Hanya Yanagihara
Hanya Yanagihara took almost two decades to finish The People in the Trees. She talks about unreliable narrators, laziness, and making stuff up.
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PW Picks: The Best New Books for the Week of August 12, 2013
This week, 2013's most detestable narrator, the wonderful new Javiar Marías novel, and Orwell's letters. Plus: a mysterious boy who avoids questions about his past in a spooky Maine town.
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What It's Like to Take a Class Taught by Borges
The mesmerizing new book Professor Borges pieces together the writer's 1966 English Literature course. Here's what it was like to be a student in the class.
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PW Picks: The Best New Books for the Week of August 5, 2013
This week: a coming of age book on the high seas, a must-read crime novel, and a boy who hasn't spoken in over one year. Plus: an absorbing biography of Charles Manson.
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How My Day Job Helped Me as a Writer
If you're in the majority and work a day job when you're not writing, check out J.M. Sidorova's thoughts on balancing the two.
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8 Authors Who Crossed the Gender Line
Tolstoy's Anna Karenina, Flaubert's Madame Bovary, and more.
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PW Picks: The Best New Books for the Week of July 29, 2013
This week, the world's most elusive and delicious cheese, an autistic savant on mathematics and life, and Jason's newest graphic novel. Plus: taking a lit course taught by Borges.
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The 10 Best Italo Calvino Books
The best of the best from the fantasy, science fiction, and fable writer.
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PW Picks: The Best New Books for the Week of July 22, 2013
This week, how modern crime became modern, David Gilbert's stellar & Sons, and Ben Stroud's stellar Byzantium. Plus: Mr. Darcy's guide to courtship.
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The 10 Best Underdogs in Books
Frodo, Ron Weasley, and Kilgore Trout. Who else makes the list?
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The 10 Best Modernist Books (in English)
The easy way in to some great, challenging books.
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PW Picks: The Best New Books for the Week of July 15, 2013
This week: an author who can do seemingly anything with words, a Florida to Alaska road trip, and David Rakoff's novel in verse. Plus, a $50,000 coat.