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PW Picks: Books of the Week, October 21, 2019
This week: the latest from Nelson DeMille, plus a biography of Thomas Edison from a Pulitzer winner.
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6 Things You (Probably) Didn't Know About Flannery O'Connor
O'Connor's resistance of the "Southern writer" label, the secret order to "A Good Man is Hard to Find," and more.
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10 Essential Music Biographies
Biographies of Elvis Presley, James Brown, Leonard Cohen, and more.
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PW Picks: Books of the Week, October 14, 2019
This week: new books from Bill Bryson, Elizabeth Strout, and more.
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PW Picks: Books of the Week, October 7, 2019
This week: new books from Zadie Smith, Jason Reynolds, and more.
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On Body Horror and the Female Body
"The female body is a nexus of pain almost by design, but it is also potentially monstrous—an object traditionally subjugated, both for its presumed weakness and its perceived threat."
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PW Picks: Books of the Week, September 30, 2019
This week: new books from Jeanette Winterson, Joe Hill, and more.
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10 Haunting Ghost Stories
Books by Robert Aickman, Louise Erdrich, and more.
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PW Picks: Books of the Week, September 23, 2019
This week: new books from Ta-Nehisi Coates, Ann Patchett, Patti Smith, Chris Ware, and more.
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10 Essential Literary Thrillers
Books by Haruki Murakami, Katherine Dunn, and more.
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PW Picks: Books of the Week, September 15, 2019
This week: new books from Attica Locke, Jacqueline Woodson, and more.
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10 Authors Shaking Up Space Opera
Books by Ann Leckie, Kameron Hurley, and more.
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PW Picks: Books of the Week, September 9, 2019
This week: a 750-page Man Booker finalist, plus Stephen King's latest.
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PW Picks: Books of the Week, September 2, 2019
Salman Rushdie's reimagining of "Don Quixote," plus the story of the woman who defied the Nazis in the world’s most dangerous horse race.
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How the Absurdity of the Five-Paragraph Essay Inspired Rion Amilcar Scott's Novella
The novella, "Special Topics in Loneliness Studies," is about a professor whose doomed class investigates loneliness through the syllabus.
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PW Picks: Books of the Week, August 26, 2019
This week: new books from Edwidge Danticat, Louise Penny, and more.
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Kimberly King Parsons on the Most Difficult Story She Ever Wrote
Kimberly King Parsons outlines the challenges of composing a story from her collection, "Foxes," that took her 12 years to complete.
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PW Picks: Books of the Week, August 19, 2019
This week: Rachel Cusk's arresting first essay collection, plus a superb police procedural with supernatural overtones.
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PW Picks: Books of the Week, August 12, 2019
This week: a luscious, unsettling Louisiana horror novel, plus, an island that is in the process of disappearing, item by item.
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PW Picks: Books of the Week, August 5, 2019
This week: new books from Ruth Ware, Silvia Moreno-Garcia, and more.



