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PW Tip Sheet: Welcome to the General Election
Now that you’ve got your candidate options narrowed down to two, it’s time to focus on the issues. Fortunately, the publishing week of April 16 has you covered, beginning with The Presidents Club.
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PW Picks: Week of April 16, 2012
This week, a bestseller surge: new offerings from Eric Jerome Dickey, David Baldacci, Nora Roberts, and a bestseller’s great-grandmother, Elizabeth Gilbert’s “Gima” Margaret Yardley Potter. Plus more!
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Discover a Publisher: TrineDay
This week: a new feature where we look at one of the many publishing houses toiling outside the mainstream. Our inaugural subject is TrineDay, which covers subject matter too taboo for the Big Six.
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Don't Make the Same Mistake Your Grandmother Made: A Q&A with Elizabeth Gilbert
When Elizabeth Gilbert rediscovered her great-grandmother’s 1947 cooking- entertainment guide At Home On the Range, the last thing she expected to find was a daring foodie decades ahead of her time.
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On-Sale Calendar: Week of April 9, 2012
Your long, long list of this week's releases.
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The Wisdom of Hugely Successful Books: A Q&A with James W. Hall
Prolific thriller writer James W. Hall took time out from his popular PI series for Hit Lit, a captivating look at the qualities common to 12 of the 20th century's biggest-selling novels.
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Art Check: Japan's Premodern Master
A new catalog from the Univ. of Chicago captures the beauty of Colorful Realm of Living Beings, the landmark, 30-scroll series of bird-and-flower paintings by Japan's premodernist master Ito Jakuchu.
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Excerpt: The Hero or Heroin of This Story
In his fiction debut, poet Jeet Thayil chronicles 30 years in the Bombay underworld, subverting Indian lit conventions with a focus on drugs, sex, violence, and the soul of a growing metropolis.
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PW Picks: Week of April 9, 2012
Our picks panel could hardly contain itself this week, collating a record-setting list of 29 titles, including new books from John Grisham, Elizabeth Hand, Susan Sontag, Bill Clegg, and many more.
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PW Tip Sheet: Read More Poems
It’s happened again: while you were busy worrying about all the unimportant things—taxes, sacred religious holidays—National Poetry Month has snuck up on you, and you’re plum out of fresh verse.
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Five Alternates for Fifty Shades
E.L. James’s gazillion-selling international hit Fifty Shades of Grey hits American shores in paperback on April 3. But what if a sexually naïve woman’s initiation into S&M isn’t your thing?
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Excerpt: Don’t Pay Attention to What It Says in the Script
Rachel Dratch spent seven seasons on SNL, where she appeared with everyone from Will Ferrell to Maya Rudolph to Jimmy Fallon, and created everyone's favorite wet blanket, Debbie Downer.
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Excerpt: The Family Microbus
In The Red Book, a "smart, funny, engrossing and action-packed meditation," Deborah Copaken Kogan looks at the lives of Harvard graduates approaching their 20th class renunion.
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No One Had a Story Like Hers: A Q&A with Robin Gaby Fisher
Robin Gaby Fisher tells the tale of Tania Head who for four years was a fierce advocate for survivors of 9/11—until it was revealed that her own story of survival was a complete fabrication.
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On-Sale Calendar: Week of April 2, 2012
All the books coming out next week, in one convenient location: it’s your list of lists!
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PW Picks: Week of April 2, 2012
The newest from Robert Olmstead, Joseph Wambaugh, Anne Tyler, Alexander McCall Smith, Mo Willems, and Holly Hobbie, plus a little international bestseller called Fifty Shades of Grey. And more!
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Art Check: A Beauty Mark on the Sun
In the illustrated volume The Transit of Venus: 1631 to the Present, Sydney astronomer Nick Lomb looks at the history, science, and significance of the rare alignment among Earth, Venus, and the Sun.
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Notable Stories
Welcome to your one-stop shop for book-related interestingness. Here you'll find an array of reading recommendations, commentary, and good ol' articles of authors and book lovers talking about why they love the books they love.
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On-Sale Calendar: Week of March 26, 2012
Once again: the most complete list of next week's releases you're likely to find anywhere.
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PW Tip Sheet: This Week in Autism
One obvious constant in autism is the yearly increase in diagnoses—and a similar increase in books on it. On average, 2011 saw 18 autism books released every week. This week, there’s just 12. (12!)
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