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How to Write a Great Letter

An expert in correspondence shares how to craft letters with impact for both the sender and the recipient.

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How to Write a Great Letter

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Writers Are Making Millions Selling Short Stories to Hollywood

Publishers generally don’t race to acquire story collections these days, but studios appear eager to shell out for unpublished short works.

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Writers Are Making Millions Selling Short Stories to Hollywood

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Book Review: ‘Peck & Peck,’ by Bonnie Garmus

In the fizzy if didactic “Peck & Peck,” Bonnie Garmus observes a young man climbing the ranks of a very eccentric literary magazine.

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Book Review: ‘Peck & Peck,’ by Bonnie Garmus

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Manhattan Bookstore Crawl: Where to Shop in Chinatown, the Lower East Side and the East Village

This Manhattan walking tour includes used-book emporiums, animal- and vegetable-themed stores and bookshop bars that serve up literature with a boozy twist.

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NYT Books and Literature

Manhattan Bookstore Crawl: Where to Shop in Chinatown, the Lower East Side and the East Village

NYT Books and Literature

How Patricia Highsmith Came to Star in a Ripley-esque Movie

“A Talent for Murder” turns the novelist into a suspicious character in a psychological thriller. The author’s caustic personality makes the leap plausible.

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NYT Books and Literature

How Patricia Highsmith Came to Star in a Ripley-esque Movie

NYT Books and Literature

What to Read This Halloween, According to Two Best-Selling Writers

Leigh Bardugo and Paul Tremblay share the books that scared them as kids, the stories that still unnerve them and their recommendations for readers new to horror.

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NYT Books and Literature

What to Read This Halloween, According to Two Best-Selling Writers