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Art Check: Illustrating Isabel Toledo
In Roots of Style, “designer’s designer” Isabel Toledo shares the story of her life and career, including fashion tips, while her husband Ruben Toledo shares his exquisite illustrations.
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On-Sale Calendar: Week of March 12, 2012
Your mostly-complete list of books going on sale in the next week.
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PW Picks: Week of March 12, 2012
This week in picks: Dale Carpenter, Marilynne Robinson, Mark Bittman, Roland Barthes, M.J. Rose, Heidi Julavits, Lauren Groff, Olen Steinhauer, Lyndsay Faye, Madeline George, and more.
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PW Tip Sheet: This Week in History
Historical fiction makes up more than half of the just-released Orange Prize longlist, and scripted historicals are in full force on TV and at the movies. They’re also all over the On-Sale Calendar.
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Excerpt: Think Small, Basic, Ugly, Economical, and Foreign
For Mad Men fans with the TV DTs, the Tip Sheet gives you another dose of 1960s adman excitement, this time from Andrew Cracknell’s The Real Mad Men, just out on Feb. 28 from Running Press.
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PW Tip Sheet: William Gay's Last Road Trip
MacAdam/Cage editor-in-chief Sonny Brewer tells the story of his final road trip with his close friend William Gay, whose work drew comparisons to Faulkner and O’Connor, and who died on Feb. 23.
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Completely On Their Own: A Q&A with Jessie Klein
In The Bully Society, professor Jessie Klein takes a hard look at bullying: its root causes and the full range of consequences—school shootings being the most extreme example.
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Excerpt: Less Wild Every Day
In her debut story collection, Megan Mayhew Bergen explores the swamps and woodlands of her native North Carolina with “straightforward, elegant prose” and “a great facility for off-kilter observations.”
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On-Sale Calendar: Week of March 5, 2012
The most complete list of this week’s releases you’re likely to find anywhere.
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PW Picks: Week of March 5, 2012
Irresistible fiction from Matthew Glass, Madeline Miller and others, a tragically prescient look at school shootings in America, two cagey memoirs, the next 39 Clues installment, and more.
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PW Tip Sheet: Author-Spotting in Savannah
The Savannah Book Festival on President’s Day weekend was another success for the festival’s directors, volunteers, and the 38 authors in town to promote their work—and The Tip Sheet was there.
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The Many Facets of Dickens: A Q&A with Jenny Hartley
In time for his 200th birthday, Jenny Hartley pored through the 12-volume British Academy Pilgrim collection of Charles Dickens’s correspondence to produce The Selected Letters of Charles Dickens.
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Excerpt: Was There Really That Much Sex in the Office?
In her eye-opening memoir Mad Women: The Other Side of Madison Avenue in the ’60s and Beyond, advertising veteran Jane Maas pulls the curtain back on the reality behind the hit series Mad Men.
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Art Check: Hockney's Plus-Sized Panoramas
In the catalog from his first museum exhibition in years, David Hockney unveils the large-scale, brightly colored landscape work from the latter part of his long career.
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Excerpt: The Silent Brother
In his latest, poet and essayist Wayne Koestenbaum examines the work and legacy of Harpo Marx, the mop-headed Marx brother who communicated entirely through pantomime, song, and a brass taxi horn.
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PW Picks: Week of February 27, 2012
This week: Jodi Picoult, Tery Bisson, Nicci French, Simon Lelic, Gail Jones, J.G. Ballard, Michel Stone, Esi Edugyan, Catherine Chung, Marina Warner, Elizabeth Little, Charles Dickens, and more.
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On-Sale Calendar: Week of February 27, 2012
Your list of nearly every book releasing this week.
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The Oscars Are What Hollywood Pretends It Does: A Q&A with Edward Jay Epstein
In The Hollywood Economist 2.0, Epstein considers the new dynamics of movie-making, including the rise of Netflix, how Hollywood beat Wall Street, and the declining quality of Hollywood product.
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PW Tip Sheet: Today the Oscars, Tomorrow...?
In preparation for the Oscars, we check in with the authors whose works were turned into Best Picture-nominated films, to find out what they’re working on now—besides their Oscar night outfits.
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On-Sale Calendar: Week of February 20, 2012
What’s coming out next week? It’s probably listed here:
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