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According to the acknowledgments, this memoir started as "a fifty-page poem and then grew into hundreds of pages of…more poetry." Readers will be glad that Anderson eventually turned to writing prose, ...

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Gould (Can’t Buy Me Love, 2007) begins his biography of art-rock legends Talking Heads with an account of the band’s first show at legendary New York club CBGB, writing that the performance didn’t ...

Sometimes, novelists like to shake a story up with a dramatic late-in-the-game revelation that makes readers reconsider everything that came before it. In Gone Girl, the smash 2012 bestseller by ...