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Becoming Kerouac's Biographer
Joyce Johnson reflects on 50 years of Kerouac in The Voice Is All: The Lonely Victory of Jack Kerouac.
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The Hardest Job in Publishing: Editing an Anthology
What goes into editing a widely bashed and widely read anthology? In one year, Mark Doty read more than anyone could be expected to read. And he liked it.
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Excerpt: 'Winter of the World' by Ken Follett
Ken Follett's second installment in the epic Century trilogy is every bit as potent as the opening opus, Fall of Giants. Continuing the stories of the five families introduced in Fall, the novel picks up in 1933 as Carla von Ulrich, 11, feels the horror of Nazi encroachment in Germany, while her older brother becomes an infatuated soldier. Read the book's opening here.
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PW Picks: The Best New Books for the Week of September 17, 2012
This week, a horror anthology, a ghost anthology, and the latest from T.C. Boyle and Ken Follett. Plus: the white whale for noir scholars--the lost James M. Cain novel.
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No Rest for the Wicked: PW Talks with Irvine Welsh
What do Irvine Welsh and the United States Army have in common? Both do more before 9 a.m. than most people do all day. Skagboys, Welsh’s prequel to Trainspotting and just one of several projects the author has in the works, publishes in September.
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5 Reasons Not To Have Kids
In Why Have Kids?, Jessica Valenti takes a scathing look at contemporary parenting and measures just how much the current American ideal of parenting fails to match reality. Here, she gives us five reasons why you shouldn't have kids.
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5 Things You Didn't Know About Working In America
Jeanne Marie Laskas's Hidden America is an exploration of the unseen people who make America work, from coal miners to oil-rig roughnecks to migrant laborers. Laskas shared five facts you probably didn't know about America with Tip Sheet.
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PW Picks: The Best New Books for the Week of September 10, 2012
This week: Junot Diaz's new short story collection, a murder mystery starring Machiavelli and da Vinci, and Jack Kerouac's early years. Plus, the people with jobs that no one else wants.
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Why the Best Mysteries Are Written in English
Otto Penzler: "It is an inarguable fact that virtually everything of interest and significance in the history of detective fiction has been written in the English language, mainly by American and English authors."
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Five Things You'll Learn From 'No Easy Day'
Inside dope on the killing of Osama bin Laden.
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Inside the Clintons' Strategic Marriage
"Ultimately, Hillary concluded that the benefits of working toward a common goal of political leadership was worth the risk of tolerating Bill's shortcomings."
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PW Picks: The Best New Books for the Week of September 3, 2012
This week: the new Zadie Smith novel, a gripping chronicle of the days immediately following 9/11, and a masterpiece set in the Congo. Plus: a book that includes an ice pick-wielding henchwoman.
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Excerpt: 'Mortality' by Christopher Hitchens
Mortality is Christopher Hitchens's stark and powerful memoir on his own suffering after being diagnosed with the esophageal cancer that would eventually take his life, as well as the etiquette of illness and wellness.
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PW Picks: The Best New Books for the Week of August 27, 2012
This week: using rocks to disprove Noah's flood, a brilliant whodunit in a monastery, and creepy puppets. Plus: biographies for both Henry James and David Foster Wallace.
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The Top 10 Henry James Novels
Michael Gorra, author of the new critical biography, Portrait of a Novel: Henry James and the Making of an American Masterpiece, gives us his favorites of the prolific writer's novels and longer stories.
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5 Things You Didn't Know About Sleep
PW Pick Dreamland: Adventures in the Strange Science of Sleep has everything you ever wanted to know about sleep, including myths and truths, as well as the downright strange. Author David K. Randall shares five facts from his book.
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Books I Love: Paula Bomer
Books I Love is a series where writers talk about the books that inspired them, the books they keep coming back to, and the books they'll always remember. Paula Bomer, author of the new novel Nine Months, picks her favorites.
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PW Picks: The Best New Books for the Week of August 20, 2012
This week, the new Martin Amis novel, a small town murder mystery, and Nick Hornby's reading list. Plus, a literary horror novel set in a mental hospital where the patients believe the devil is hiding.
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The Troubled History Behind George Orwell's Complete Works
Peter Davison, the editor of The Complete Works of George Orwell, discusses its troubled genesis and what might loosely be called "the autobiography Orwell never wrote"--his Diaries and A Life in Letters--now to be published for the first time in the United States.
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How I Turned My Life Into a Memoir
David Fitzpatrick's Sharp is a memoir covering his 46-year-life, and his two-decade struggle with bipolar disorder and self-injury. Here, he writes about how he turned his experiences into a memoir.
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