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Will Our Love Affair With Thrillers Ever Subside?
The fiction bestseller lists are dominated by crime novels—a literary trend so overwhelming, it...
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Who Helped Harper Lee With "Mockingbird"?
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We like to think of writers, like heroes, as isolated beings....
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Our Mysterious Stranger
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Mark Twain made us wait 100 years for this memoir. He’s still an enigma shrouded in a white suit.
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Excerpt From ‘The Autobiography of Mark Twain’
In a passage from the legendary writer's newly published memoir, he spars with a librarian who's chosen to ban "Huck Finn." MORE
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Self-Publishing: Who Needs a Publisher Anymore?
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Memoirs: Conversation With Clegg and Strauss
Many first-time memoirists are motivated by self-serving desires: to make the world notice them or to make the world like them.... MORE
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A Real-Life Comic-Book Superhero
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What You Need to Read Now
The world is a crazy, mixed-up place, isn’t it?... MORE
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What You Need to Read Now: Rebels With a Cause
Before Glenn Beck, there were—well, lots of cranks and soreheads just like him, and on both ends of the political spectrum.... MORE
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What You Need to Read Now: Economic Survival
Hot summer reading for a cooling economy. Intelligent, slightly oblique takes on the big-picture issues of the day, from climate change to financial reform. MORE
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What You Need to Read Now: Immigration
Pretty much since we got here, Americans have been arguing over the right time to hang out the no vacancy sign. MORE
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What You Need to Read Now: Man-Made Disasters
Who knows why environmental catastrophes bring out the best in contemporary novelists, but thank goodness they do. MORE
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What You Need to Read Now: Adultery
Without its inspiration, there would be fewer novels, fewer operas—but many more politicians still in office. MORE
