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The War Within the War: PW Talks with Rajiv Chandrasekaran
Little America: The War Within the War in Afghanistan is an in-depth account and indictment of President Obama's 2009 surge in Afghanistan. Rajiv Chandrasekaran, senior correspondent and associate editor of The Washington Post, talked with PW about where we go from here.
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Excerpt: 'The Age of Miracles'
Poised to be one of the hot books of the summer, The Age of Miracles is the terrifying and gripping debut from Karen Thompson Walker about a day when the earth's rotation begins slowing, hurling the planet into disarray. Take an early look at the book's opening here.
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The Rules for Suspense Writing
Heather Gudenkauf knows her way around a gripping suspense yarn. Take notes, because she's sharing her secrets with Tip Sheet.
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PW Picks: The Best New Books for the Week of June 25, 2012
This week: the book everyone will be (rightfully) talking about, The Age of Miracles. Plus, memoirs on both cooking and cycling, and a psychological thriller set on a mysterious island.
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Treating Books Badly: PW Talks with Donald Antrim
In Donald Antrim's hilarious debut novel, Elect Mr. Robinson for a Better World, violence is everywhere. A dismembered body must be scatter-buried, books are thrown at Claymore mines in the local park, and a 1:32-scale "Portuguese interrogation chamber" is built in a residential basement. PW talked with Antrim about treating books badly and writing the old fashioned way.
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Iraq in the Berkshires: PW Talks with Joshua Henkin
The World Without You is a family drama set during the course of the Fourth of July weekend in 2005. PW talked with author Joshua Henkin about working with a big cast and that old Tolstoy saw about unhappy families.
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How To Survive the Zombie Apocalypse
This Is Not a Test is The Breakfast Club meets George Romero. Here, author Courtney Summers shares her survival tips for the impending zombie takeover. Better cut your hair!
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The Life of Animals After Death
Life Everlasting: The Animal Way of Death is a moving exploration of the life and death cycles of the animal kingdom, and how the two cycles intersect. Here, author Bernd Heinrich details the connection between a bird's death and a beetle's mating ritual, and what happens to a Blue whale's body when it dies.
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PW Picks: The Best New Books for the Week of June 17, 2012
This week: the new Dave Eggers novel, turning a crack house into a dream home, and a salacious (and true!) Victorian divorce case. Plus, what happens when an astronaut returns home to find his family in pieces?
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How 'Tristram Shandy' Saved My Mom
In this essay from his collection We Learn Nothing, Tim Kreider reads the famously frustrating book to his convalescing mother in the hospital.
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Translating a Pablo Neruda Mystery
The translator for The Neruda Case, Carolina De Robertis, discusses the fine details of translation within the context of the book's missing person mystery, starring none other than Pablo Neruda himself.
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The Top 10 Nabokov Short Stories
The fanatical Anatomy of a Short Story looks at Nabokov's "Signs and Symbols" from every possible angle. Yuri Leving, the book's editor, gives us his 10 favorite Nabokov short stories.
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PW Picks: The Best New Books for the Week of June 11, 2012
This week: a missing person mystery starring Pablo Neruda, Tennessee Williams's family troubles, and a relationship dissected in The Forever Marriage. Plus: why Darwin didn't discover evolution by himself.
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The Loneliness of Delaying Death: PW Talks with Jill Lepore
In The Mansion of Happiness: A History of Life and Death, Jill Lepore examines life's stages, beginning before birth and ending after death, covering everything from cryogenics to breast pumps. PW Tip Sheet caught up with Lepore to find out how much we know about life and death.
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When Fiction Beats Fact: Antony Beevor on Imagining WWII
Antony Beevor's newest book, The Second World War, compresses the entirety of the century's most important event into a single volume. In this essay for Tip Sheet, Beevor tackles the perils of "faction."
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PW Picks: The Best New Books for the Week of June 4, 2012
This week: Gillian Flynn's highly anticipated Gone Girl, a legless girl causes a bizarre military impasse, and an exploration of morality. Plus, James Joyce and World War II each get comprehensive accounts.
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How Sex Changed James Joyce
In this excerpt from the most comprehensive Joyce biography since Richard Ellman's James Joyce, Gordon Bowker explores the sexual awakening in the pious young Joyce.
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Disneyland in Saudi Arabia: PW Talks with Kim Barnes
Kim Barnes's novel In the Kingdom of Men follows a barefoot girl from red-dirt Oklahoma to a lavish oil company compound in Saudi Arabia. Tip Sheet caught up with Barnes to discuss George Bush, Bedouins, and the place of research in novel writing.
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PW Picks: The Best New Books for the Week of May 28, 2012
This week: teaching Jane Austen in Latin America, a bloody love story, and a first-rate espionage thriller. Plus: Civil War master Jeff Shaara returns to what he does best.
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The Jane Austen Novels Ranked
Amy Elizabeth Smith, a Jane Austen fan and teacher of her books overseas, chronicles the writer's impact across cultures and languages in her memoir, All Roads Lead to Austen: A Yearlong Journey with Jane. Tip Sheet asked her to rank the Austen novels, and you may be a bit surprised at the results.
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