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PW Picks: The Best New Books for the Week of May 14
Fiction from Craig Johnson, China Mieville, Timeri Murari, Peter Carey, Garth Nix, and Tania James; the first collection of Batman’s “New 52” incarnation; the follow-up to Sh*t My Dad Says, and more.
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Art Check: A Broadway Couple Shoots NYC
In the handsome new coffee table book The Outdoor Museum, stage actress Margery Gray Harnick sets the scene while her husband, Pulitzer-winning lyricist Sheldon Harnick, provides poetic accompaniment.
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Same Sex, Different Story: PW Talks with Rodger Streitmatter
Just as president Obama comes out in favor of gay marriage, a new book takes a close look at American same sex couples, from Walt Whitman to Greta Garbo to Jasper Johns.
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First Look: The Family Corleone by Ed Falco
A new Godfather book hits this week, and we've got the first chapter. Working from a Mario Puzo screenplay, novelist Ed Falco goes back to 1933 New York and a 17-year-old Sonny Corleone.
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Harvey Pekar, Back From the Dead
For Harvey Pekar's Cleveland, Top Shelf and Zip Comics recruited artist Joseph Remnant, whose work recalls longtime Pekar collaborator R. Crumb, but with a lighter touch and a charm all its own.
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PW Picks: The Best New Books for the Week of May 7, 2012
This week, novels from Toni Morrison and Cassandra Clare, urban histories from David Talbot and cartoonist Harvey Pekar, a thriller from Larry Bond, Augusten Burroughs solves your problems, and more.
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On-Sale Calendar: Week of April 30, 2012
Your long, long list of titles going on sale in the week ahead.
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Art Check: Gursky's Extraterrestrial Perspective
Three photos that tell a very short version of Gursky's story: his images are epic, his subject matter is the entire world, and his perspective is, in his words, "alien”—a view from above and beyond.
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Eye on the Stars: Big Week for Celeb Memoirs
A rare week gives us three celeb memoirs by boldface names: Sissy Spacek, Gregg Allman, and Dan Rather are telling all. Turns out, fame is great and all, but what stars really want is a book deal.
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Book Excerpt: 'The Uninvited Guests' by Sadie Jones
With Downton Abbey on hiatus, Sadie Jones has your fix: her twisty British country drama The Uninvited Guests, centers on a house called Sterne and the family desperate to hold onto it. Read the first chapter here.
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PW Picks: Week of April 30, 2012
Music legend Gregg Allman tells all, Dan Rather’s life in news, Sissy Spacek’s ordinary life, plus big novels from Nell Freudenberger, Rick Riordan, Charlaine Harris, and Swedish crime queen Camilla Läckberg, and more.
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PW Tip Sheet: The Great Pulitzer Debate
As you probably know already, the collective outrage of the publishing world found a new and wholly unexpected target this week: the Pulitzer Prize award selection committee.
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On-Sale Calendar: Week of April 23, 2012
The long, long list of this week’s releases.
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Excerpt: Care and Caring, Time and Efficiency
In her debut, physician Victoria Sweet pulls the curtain back on her 20 years at San Francisco’s Lagunda Honda Hospital, the country’s last “almshouse” for the poor and chronically disabled.
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Art Check: Paper Planes for Sophisticates
Since 2004, artist Kelly Lynn Jones has been showcasing the work of young artists on her art community web site. Her first book, Little Paper Planes, features 20 artists’ unique paper plane designs.
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PW Picks: Week of April 23, 2012
This week: Anna Quindlen, Jonathan Franzen, Madeline Albright, and Stephen King make new visits to old territory. Plus Alice Randall, Auma Obama, Oklahoma City, another Kennedys memoir, and more.
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Oklahoma City, 17 Years On: A Q&A with Andrew Gumbel
In time for the attack’s 17th anniversary, Morrow releases Oklahoma City: What the Investigation Missed—and Why It Still Matters by investigative journalists Andrew Gumbel and Roger G. Charles.
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On-Sale Calendar: Week of April 16, 2012
Your long, long list of the week's book releases.
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Excerpt: When the Yankees Lose, I Blame Myself
Hart Seely explains the mystical power of Juju: the armchair athlete’s system of magical thinking that's help propelled many a half-deluded fan through a hopeless season.
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Art Check: The Mighty Mamika
French photographer Sacha Goldberger decided to use his 93-year-old grandmother as his subject and muse, arranging her in outrageous costumes and stunts to create a series of unforgettable images.