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PW Picks: The Best New Books for the Week of May 13, 2013
This week, a near masterpiece of a novel, strong short story collections, and engrossing histories. Plus: Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie's latest.
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PW Picks: The Best New Books for the Week of May 6, 2013
This week, dismantling psychiatry, gaming in Michigan's Upper Peninsula, and a "mojo bag." Plus: this year's biggest book about werewolves.
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How To Be a Grown-Up in 10 Steps
10 easy steps to get you started on being a successful adult.
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10 Things You Didn't Know About Yellowstone
The country's best national park has some amazing and little-known facts.
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Anthony Marra on Writing the Only Novel on the Chechen Wars
The author of A Constellation of Vital Phenomena talks about the inspiration for his novel.
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How Becoming a Librarian Saved Me
Josh Hanagarne, author of the quirky new memoir The World's Strongest Librarian, talks about the importance of working in a library.
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How H.P. Lovecraft Was Made Into a Graphic Novel
The story behind one of Lovecraft's great stories, "The Case of Charles Dexter Ward."
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PW Picks: The Best New Books for the Week of April 29, 2013
This week, Frank Bidart's latest, Eve Ensler gets personal, and the biological roots of crime. Plus: a memoir by Edna O'Brien.
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10 Things You Probably Didn't Know About Willa Cather
The Selected Letters of Willa Cather, despite the author's wish for her correspondence to remain unpublished, finally sees the light of day this month. The editors of the book, Andrew Jewell and Janis Stout, take us inside the private life of a great American writer.
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Books I Love: Edith Grossman
One of the world's most renowned translators shares her favorite books.
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PW Picks: The Best New Books for the Week of April 22, 2013
This week, Michael Pollan's latest, Mo Willems's latest, and a white-knuckle WWII true story. Plus: why time is "the heart of nature."
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PW Picks: The Best New Books for the Week of April 15, 2013
This week, a mischievous book about a crumbling mansion, 100 years done in 100 pages, and the truth about dinosaurs. Plus: the best book about Rhode Island...ever?
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The American Cult: A History
Peggy Riley's debut novel Amity & Sorrow is a fierce but compassionate look at nature vs. nurture through the lens of a polygamous cult. Riley, who took inspiration from a photograph of a burning wooden church, walks us through the history of the American cult.
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The 10 Best Book Endings
Hemingway, Woolf, Márquez. What other authors gave us unforgettable endings?
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PW Picks: The Best New Books for the Week of April 8, 2013
This week: Lovecraft gets graphic, the rise of the American novel, and what nonhuman species reveal about being human. Plus, getting held hostage in a small town.
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The 10 Best Small Towns in Books
Mount Judge, Pennsylvania. Oberlin, Ohio. Splendora, Texas. What other small towns were put on the map because of books?
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PW Picks: The Best New Books for the Week of April 1, 2013
This week, Lemony Snicket and Jon Klassen join forces, loneliness in the digital age, and the deadliest jellied gasoline ever. Plus: James Salter's first novel in over 30 years.
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10 Hidden Places Around the World
Moses Gates's Hidden Cities: A Memoir of Urban Exploration is a wildly entertaining journey beyond barriers to find the off-the-radar places in locales around the world. Gates has some hidden places for you to explore on your next trip.
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How I Accidentally Wrote a Bestseller
Nick Turse’s Kill Anything That Moves, now in its sixth printing, is an eye-opening look at the U.S.'s “search-and-destroy” tactic employed in Vietnam, but it began 12 years ago with Turse, a PhD student, toiling away in the National Archives. It was there that he found documents (which have since been pulled from the public shelves) that became the inspiration for his book.
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PW Picks: The Best New Books for the Week of March 25, 2013
This week, a Catcher in the Rye for Internet youth, the new Zelda Fitzgerald novel, and a must-have Charles Simic collection. Plus: something is below the ice in Antarctica.
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