Why You Shouldn't Have Kids & The Hardest Job in Publishing

Tips for September 17-22 PW Picks: The Best New Books for the Week of September 17, 2012 This week, a horror anthology, a ghost anthology, and the latest from T.C. Boyle and Ken Follett. Plus: the white whale for noir scholars--the lost James M. Cain novel. more 5 Reasons Not To Have Kids If parenting is making Americans unhappy, if it's impossible to "have it all," if people don't have the economic, social, or political structures needed to support parenting, then why do it? Jessica Valenti, author of Why Have Kids?, gives five reasons why you shouldn't have kids. more The Big Books of Fall 2012 Check out our favorite books publishing this fall, including Lemony Snicket's "Who Could That Be At This Hour?" more The Hardest Job in Publishing: Editing an Anthology What goes into editing a widely bashed and widely read anthology? In one year, Mark Doty read more than anyone could be expected to read. And he liked it. more Becoming Kerouac's Biographer "He always remained a novelist, swept along by the mysterious process by which imagination transforms memories into fiction in a realm ungoverned by a writer's conscious decision making." more Excerpt: 'Winter of the World' by Ken Follett Ken Follett's second installment in the epic Century trilogy is every bit as potent as the opening opus, Fall of Giants. Continuing the stories of the five families introduced in Fall, the novel picks up in 1933 as Carla von Ulrich, 11, feels the horror of Nazi encroachment in Germany, while her older brother becomes an infatuated soldier. Read the book's opening here. more Kindle Fire HD Brings Amazon's Tablet Offerings Up to Speed Everything about the new Kindle Fire HD 7" tablet from Amazon makes it a superior device to the original Kindle Fire, which was released about a year ago. That may be more a comment on the faults of the original Kindle Fire than on the features of the new one, because the new Kindle Fire brings Amazon up to speed with the current tablet market. more No Rest for the Wicked: PW Talks with Irvine Welsh What do Irvine Welsh and the United States Army have in common? Both do more before 9 a.m. than most people do all day. Skagboys, Welsh's prequel to Trainspotting and just one of several projects the author has in the works, publishes in September. more 9 Unfinished Novels by Great Writers Steinbeck, Flaubert, Wharton, and more. MORE The 10 Most Difficult Books How many of them have you read? more The On-Sale Calendar: September 2012 For an extended list of books publishing this week, including Low Pressure by Sandra Brown, check out our On-Sale Calendar. more For more on this week's new books, visit us at www.publishersweekly.com/tipsheet Today's Job Publishers Weekly is seeking a Copy Editor. Maybe it's you! For more about this and other jobs, visit PW JobZone.	PW Bestseller Lists Week of 9/9 Hardcover Fiction #1 "Zoo" by James Patterson and Michael Ledwidge. Full list Hardcover Nonfiction #1 "No Easy Day" by Mark Owen. Full list Trade Paper #1 "Fifty Shades of Grey" by E L James. Full list Children's Fiction #1 "Captain Underpants and the Terrifying Return of Tippy Tinkletrousers" by Dav Pilkey. Full list

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