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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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Questions for a Bookseller: Hollywood's Diesel Books
With six of the nine best picture Oscar nominees being book adaptations, we asked John Evans of Diesel Books in Malibu and Brentwood to comment on movie tie-in editions and other Oscar-related issues.
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PW Picks: Week of February 20, 2012
Burning up the Picks list this week: top-notch crime fiction from the late Donald E. Westlake, sophomore novelist Matt Pavelich, and Arthur Ellis Award winner Peter Robinson.
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Excerpt: Just Like Your Handsome Father
Adam Wilson’s debut, the aimless-young-man novel Flatscreen, comes anointed by masters of the form Tom Perrotta (“the slacker novel to end all slacker novels”) and Gary Shteyngart (“OMFG”).
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The Wonderful and Terrible Habit of Buying Too Many Books
"A library of mostly unread books is far more inspiring than a library of books already read. There's nothing more exciting than finishing a book, and walking over to your shelves to figure out what you're going to read next."
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When Gamblers and Readers Get Together, Anything Can Happen: A Q&A with Tupelo Hassman
Tupelo Hassman’s debut Girlchild is a novel that drops us into the Reno trailer park home of Rory Hendrix and invites us to be the only other member of her Girl Scout troop.
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If They Only Knew Her Secret: A Q&A with Anne Sebba
Already a bestseller in the UK, That Woman takes a fresh look at the much-vilified American-born divorcee for whom Prince Edward abdicated the throne.
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Exercising the Moral Imagination: A Q&A with Eyal Press
Beautiful Souls probes the legacy of human goodness versus a corrupt mob mentality: the whistleblower in the financial industry, the U.S. military prosecutor who resigns over conditions at Gitmo.
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