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PW Picks: On Sale the Week of October 10, 2011

By Parul Sehgal | 10/07/2011 @ 12:00AM

Our top 10 picks of books hitting bookstores this week, including new titles by Jane O'Connor and Robin Preiss Glasser, Jeffrey Eugenides, Harry Belafonte, Roz Chast, and Alan Hollinghurst.
Reading List: Jeffrey Eugenides

| 10/07/2011 @ 12:00AM

The Marriage Plot, Jeffrey’s Eugenides’s highly anticipated new novel is out this week, and we asked the Pulitzer Prize–winning author of Middlesex and The Virgin Suicides to make us a reading list of books on marriage. He sent us five titles, “the books I know best, and thought most about, while writing The Marriage Plot.”
In Praise of 'Messy' Writing

By Gabe Habash | 10/07/2011 @ 12:00AM

Too often writers forget how rewarding it is for readers to stumble upon that extra detail extraneous to the narrative, there because it’s there. (This is especially true for writers coming out of M.F.A. background where economy is fetishized.) Even writers on the terser end of the prose spectrum slow down just for a moment.
Tip Sheet for the Week of October 10, 2011: For Pleasure

By Parul Sehgal | 10/07/2011 @ 12:00AM

This week’s Tip Sheet is dedicated to reading and writing with pleasure and for pleasure. We have a reading list from Jeffrey Eugenides, a q&a with Austin, Tex.’s BookPeople’s children’s buyer on what the littlest readers are looking forward to, and an essay by our Gabe Habash in praise of “messy writing.”
What is PW Tip Sheet?

| 09/30/2011 @ 12:00AM

Welcome to our newest weekly newsletter, print column and Web page, coming Fridays online and Mondays in print. Edited by Parul Sehgal with contributions from Gabe Habash and other PW staff members, Tip Sheet covers books hitting shelves this week and books already in the marketplace making news. You'll see an incisive weekly essay, exclusive author interviews, bookseller Q&As, hot picks from our On-Sale Calendar, and timely features from PW's archives. So, without further ado, here's this week's issue:
Welcome to PW Tip Sheet

By Parul Sehgal | 09/30/2011 @ 12:00AM

PW lives in the future. (But only slightly, three months to be exact.) Which means that while everyone else is enjoying autumn, we’re in December, huddling between stacks of dog-eared galleys, agonizing over our best books list. We’re having spirited cubicle confabs and doing loads of rereading, waiting and hoping for that click in the brain—there really should be a word for it—when you realize the book you’re reading isn’t just good, it’s special. The click in the brain that signals, Yes. This book I will revisit and recommend.
Black Like Who?: PW Talks with Toure

By Parul Sehgal | 09/30/2011 @ 12:00AM

Touré's highly anticipated Who's Afraid of Post-Blackness just hit the shelves (and the cover of the New York Times Book Review). We catch up with the journalist, talk show host, and Twitter-provocateur to get the story behind the book.
Three Questions (for a bookseller): Greenlight's Rebecca Fitting

By Parul Sehgal | 09/30/2011 @ 12:00AM

Rebecca Fitting, co-owner of Brooklyn's Greenlight Bookstore, cues us in to the books she (and her customers) are looking forward to this season.
On Sale This Week: PW's Top 10 Books for the Week of October 3, 2011

By Parul Sehgal | 09/30/2011 @ 12:00AM

Our top ten picks of books hitting bookstores this week, including new ones from Art Spiegelman, Ellen DeGeneres and Bill Cosby!
On Sale This Week: PW's Top 10 Books for the Week of October 3, 2011

By Parul Sehgal | 09/29/2011 @ 12:00AM

Our top ten picks of books hitting bookstores this week, including new ones from Art Spiegelman, Ellen DeGeneres and Bill Cosby!
The Worst Book Ever is 'How to Avoid Huge Ships'

By Gabe Habash | 07/21/2011 @ 01:00PM

Currently only available from nine sellers, the lowest price sitting at $131, details about this mysterious book are scant. What we do know is that it’s written by Captain John W. Trimmer, and that it’s 112 pages. And that’s about it.
Excerpt: The Fever Had Many Facets

By Walter Mosley | 00/00/0000 @ 12:00AM

In his latest, Walter Mosley brings back Leonid McGill, who has to fend off the problems of a dysfunctional family and one Zella Grisham, who can't quite remember shooting her boyfriend seven years prior.

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