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The 10 Best Narrators in Literature
Holden Caulfield and Huck Finn make the list, but who else is among the best narrators in literature?
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Create Your Own 'Casual Vacancy'
What's the new J.K. Rowling novel like? We have no idea. But give us your best guess for how it begins and you could win a copy of the book.
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Books I Love: Libba Bray
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. Libba Bray, author of the new novel The Diviners, picks her favorites.
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The Top 10 Horror Stories
Stephen Jones, editor of the new anthology A Book of Horrors, is the multiple-award-winning editor and author of more than one hundred books in the horror and fantasy genres. Here, he gives us his 10 favorite horror stories.
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PW Picks: The Best New Books for the Week of September 24, 2012
This week: a soon-to-be classic coming-of-age story, hanging out in the morgue, and a spooky book in the vein of Shirley Jackson. Plus: the story of the richest woman in America.
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The 5 Best Music Books
Paul Elie, author of the mesmerizing new book Reinventing Bach, gives us five must-read books about music.
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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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