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Call Patricia Lockwood's latest a memoir, a novel or anything you want
Patricia Lockwood’s life and art are so closely linked that it’s appropriate for a cat meowing in the background during a phone interview from her Savannah, Georgia, home to make it into this story.
That cat, Miette, also is in Lockwood’s novel “Will There Ever Be Another You,” in fact. “Will There Ever” is a tricky book, with a ...Read more

'Slow Horses' author Mick Herron reveals the secret origins of Slough House
In the middle of a conversation about “Clown Town,” the new Slow Horses novel, author Mick Herron reveals a bit of previously untold lore about the origins of Slough House.
Referring to a team of older spies who appear in the just-published book, Herron says, “Their careers never really went in the direction that they should have, very ...Read more

Review: Author's mom gave her 'Silent Treatment' for months at a time
Plenty of memoirs have been written about fraught relationships between mothers and daughters, but few are as disturbing and fascinating as Jeannie Vanasco’s third memoir.
“A Silent Treatment” is about the ghosting the author’s mother inflicts on her frequently, for long periods of time and for reasons that are nearly unfathomable.
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This week's bestsellers from Publishers Weekly
Here are the bestsellers for the week that ended Saturday, Sept. 13, compiled from data from independent and chain bookstores, book wholesalers and independent distributors nationwide, powered by Circana BookScan © 2025 Circana.
(Reprinted from Publishers Weekly, published by PWxyz LLC. © 2025, PWxyz LLC.)
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1. The Secret of...Read more

This week's bestsellers from Publishers Weekly
Here are the bestsellers for the week that ended Saturday, Sept. 13, compiled from data from independent and chain bookstores, book wholesalers and independent distributors nationwide, powered by Circana BookScan © 2025 Circana.
(Reprinted from Publishers Weekly, published by PWxyz LLC. © 2025, PWxyz LLC.)
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1. "The Secret ...Read more

Oscar-winner Cameron Crowe is going on tour to promote his memoir, 'The Uncool'
SAN DIEGO — As one of the most prominent music critics of the 1970s, Cameron Crowe often accompanied legendary rock bands on tour to conduct interviews and chronicle their work and lives. Now, the Oscar-winning screenwriter and veteran film director is set to hit the road on his own to discuss his upcoming memoir, “The Uncool,” in what is ...Read more

Review: Memoir 'The Dirt Beneath Our Door' is shocking, sad and hopeful
Once she turned 13, author Pamela Jones’ marriage clock began ticking, as the Twin Cities resident writes in “The Dirt Beneath Our Door”: “I was expected to become a wife in the next few years and fulfill my mission to produce as many children as possible for my husband’s posterity.”
Jones was born into the Church of the First Born ...Read more

Review: It's no fun being a 'Middle Spoon,' or reading about it
The narrator of Alejandro Varela’s novel-slash-diatribe about polyamory in contemporary gay life is a self-professed overthinker/oversharer who mounts a full-throated defense of open relationships. Polyamorists must await another champion, however, since the one here fails to “make the case.”
The title itself is misleading. A “Middle ...Read more

Books for fall 2025: Luigi, Ozzy and the great beyond
You know what’s scary this fall?
How many new books are coming.
So many that no less than Thomas Pynchon, publishing’s favorite recluse, is back. Not to be outdone, even Harper Lee returns with a posthumous collection. But you know what’s scarier? How many new scary books are coming between now and November, and beyond. Horror, hotter ...Read more

Artist K. Woodman-Maynard has a bold take on beloved 'Tuck Everlasting'
MINNEAPOLIS -- ln a comic she drew before bedtime one night, K. Woodman-Maynard manifested a project that would occupy her for the next couple of years.
The author and cartoonist, who lives in south Minneapolis with husband Mike Schowalter and a one-eyed Vizsla named Leif, writes a “diary comic” each night. Creator of a graphic novel ...Read more

Review: When literally all of your family members are 'Crooks'
The Mercurios are probably not what you think of when you hear the phrase “crime family.” The words evoke traditional images of gruff, dangerous men in suits — Tony Soprano or Michael Corleone, spewing threats and radiating violence.
But in Lou Berney’s latest novel “Crooks,” the Mercurios are an actual family. A mom and dad, five ...Read more

Column: Tax breaks on books won't save reading from a slow death
In a series of tax reforms designed to ease the burden on consumers’ wallets, Denmark has made several household essentials cheaper: Electricity, coffee, chocolate, cream puffs and books.
OK, so the cream puffs, or Vandbakkelser, may not be strictly necessary. In fact, the removal of the country’s oldest tax on chocolate and confectionery ...Read more

How to become a VIP guest at restaurants in six easy steps
A year and a half ago, a reader posed a newsletter question to the food editor at Bloomberg Pursuits (me): Do restaurant servers hate diners?
To answer that thought-provoking query, I turned to Adam Reiner, a Bloomberg Pursuits contributor and James Beard-winning writer. He spent more than 20 years waiting tables in New York City, everywhere ...Read more
This week's bestsellers from Publishers Weekly
Here are the bestsellers for the week that ended Saturday, Sept. 6, compiled from data from independent and chain bookstores, book wholesalers and independent distributors nationwide, powered by Circana BookScan © 2025 Circana.
(Reprinted from Publishers Weekly, published by PWxyz LLC. © 2025, PWxyz LLC.)
HARDCOVER FICTION
1. The Hallmarked...Read more

This week's bestsellers from Publishers Weekly
Here are the bestsellers for the week that ended Saturday, Sept. 6, compiled from data from independent and chain bookstores, book wholesalers and independent distributors nationwide, powered by Circana BookScan © 2025 Circana.
(Reprinted from Publishers Weekly, published by PWxyz LLC. © 2025, PWxyz LLC.)
HARDCOVER FICTION
1. "The ...Read more

Caricature artist draws the famous and the rest of us
Robin Schwartzman is a woman of 10,000 faces.
That’s at least how many faces she’s drawn over the past 23 years as a professional caricature artist.
The Minneapolis resident wears other artistic hats: She’s a lecturer who teaches 3D modeling and digital fabrication at the University of Minnesota Department of Art, where she got her MFA ...Read more

'Collateral Stardust' describes Nikki Nash's long connection with Warren Beatty
ANAHEIM, Calif. — As a teen growing up at the end of the ’60s, Nikki Nash had a celebrity crush like young people do, but hers was something different, Nash writes in her new memoir.
Where her girlfriends got dreamy-eyed over Paul McCartney, the cute Beatle, or Davy Jones, the cute Monkee, the 14-year-old Nash fell for film star Warren ...Read more

Review: Basically, be glad you didn't have Arundhati Roy's mother
Arundhati Roy’s coruscating new memoir centers her tumultuous relationship with her mother Mary Roy, a brilliant but volatile pathbreaker the acclaimed novelist calls “my mother, my gangster...my shelter and my storm.”
In “Mother Mary Comes to Me,” the Booker Prize winner (for “The God of Small Things”) unpacks memories of her ...Read more

Michael Osterholm on the next pandemic, which he says will be worse
Any time Michael Osterholm needs inspiration to continue fighting for public health, he glances at a gift on his desk, a Christmas present from his two adult children.
“It’s an electronic picture frame and they keep putting in pictures of my five grandkids,” said Osterholm, an internationally renowned epidemiologist who leads the “...Read more

Think 'The Thursday Murder Club' is everywhere? You're not wrong
How pervasive is the “Thursday Murder Club” universe? Consider this: The fifth book in the bestselling series, “The Impossible Fortune” (out Sept. 30), includes a joke about an actor who stars in the movie version of the first book, which zipped to the top of Netflix playlists last month.
That Pierce Brosnan inside joke in “Impossible...Read more