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PW Picks: The Best New Books for the Week of December 24, 2012

By Gabe Habash | 12/21/2012 @ 12:00AM

This week: how to stay sane, faking a deadly peanut allergy, and the forgotten writings of Bram Stoker.
Bram Stoker's Lost Romance Story

| 12/21/2012 @ 12:00AM

Check out an excerpt from Bram Stoker's forgotten "When the Sky Rains Gold"--a short story that shows the horror master also wrote romances.
The Four Corners of Sanity

By Philippa Perry | 12/21/2012 @ 12:00AM

In her new book How to Stay Sane, author and psychotherapist Philippa Perry breaks down what makes (and keeps) us sane. Here are her four keys.
10 Books for Twentysomethings

By Robin Marantz Henig and Samantha Henig | 12/14/2012 @ 12:00AM

What books can help the disaffected youth of 2012?
Saving a Forgotten Masterpiece

By Judith Gurewich | 12/14/2012 @ 12:00AM

Why a masterpiece that was written in 1928 and has since been forgotten matters today.
10 Best Christmas Romance Novels

By Anne Browning Walker | 12/07/2012 @ 12:00AM

If you're looking for a great romance book this holiday season, we've got 10 to check out.
PW Picks: The Best New Books for the Week of December 10, 2012

By Gabe Habash | 12/07/2012 @ 12:00AM

This week: a British variation on A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius, a moving book on our own extinction, and a book all Cloud Atlas lovers need to read.
Books I Love: Ken Jennings

By Ken Jennings | 11/30/2012 @ 12:00AM

Jeopardy! master Ken Jennings hates writing "favorite books" lists. We made him do it anyway.
PW Picks: The Best New Books for the Week of December 3, 2012

By Gabe Habash | 11/30/2012 @ 12:00AM

This week, a neglected novel from a master, the definitive biography of The Smiths, and the letters of William Styron. Plus: what happens when you get locked in a trunk with a strange man.
William Styron's Letter to Robert Penn Warren

| 11/30/2012 @ 12:00AM

In this 1967 letter to Robert Penn Warren, published in the excellent Selected Letters from William Styron, the novelist explains his inspiration for The Confessions of Nat Turner.
The Top 10 Charles Dickens Books

By Robert Gottlieb | 11/30/2012 @ 12:00AM

The 10 best from one of literature's great masters.
PW Picks: The Best New Books for the Week of November 26, 2012

| 11/21/2012 @ 12:00AM

This week: famous fraternal sagas, a brilliantly constructed whodunit, and why 1776 is overrated.
The Most Expensive Books of the Season

| 11/21/2012 @ 12:00AM

Looking for a good gift? We have some expensive options for you.
5 Writing Tips from Laini Taylor

By Laini Taylor | 11/16/2012 @ 10:00AM

Laini Taylor's Days of Blood & Starlight (the follow-up to Daughter of Smoke & Bone) is filled with dazzling writing, not to mention fantasy, suspense, and a page-turning story. Take notes, because Taylor's sharing her 5 writing tips.
Picture Books for Adults: PW Talks to Victoria Roberts

By Mike Harvkey | 11/16/2012 @ 12:00AM

While picture books for adults aren’t unheard of, their writing and illustrating requires two sets of talent, something that New Yorker cartoonist Victoria Roberts, born in New York City, raised in Mexico and Australia, knows a thing or two about. Both talents are on display in After the Fall (Nov.), a book 25 years in the making.
The Dark Side of the Elizabethan Era

| 11/16/2012 @ 12:00AM

The Watchers: A Secret History of the Reign of Elizabeth I is Stephen Alford's page-turning history of assassination plots, torture, and espionage. Here, he gives us a primer on the dark side of the reign of Elizabeth.
5 Books Inspired by Beethoven's Fifth

By Matthew Guerrieri | 11/16/2012 @ 12:00AM

Nietzsche, Sartre, Chinese Maoists, Nazis and their Allied opponents all attached meaning to the Fifth. What writers were inspired to write about it?
Nate Silver's Big Week

By Judith Rosen | 11/09/2012 @ 12:00AM

For bookstores, elections are seldom good for business. But for author Nate Silver, the blogger behind fiveeightythree, the election has given his book a boost, at least at Amazon.
3-Minute Reads: 'Crazy' by Ron Hansen

| 11/09/2012 @ 12:00AM

3-Minute Reads is a series featuring very short writing you can enjoy instantly. This week, "Crazy" by Ron Hansen, featured in the new collection She Loves Me Not. Hansen is the author of The Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford and Nebraska.
The Top 10 Cities in Literature

By Mark Binelli | 11/09/2012 @ 12:00AM

Madrid, New York, and Tulsa (!) make the list. What other cities have been given the best portraits in literature?

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