In This Issue

There's a special kinship between writers and booksellers, and that warmth is on full display in several new books, including Katie Clapham's charming and witty Receipts from the Bookshop, which inventories a year of observations and musings at the store she co-owns with her mother in the U.K. Similarly, thriller author Harlan Coben's Plot Twist details his writing life with "succinct insights" and a breezy sense of humor, resulting in a book on craft that doubles as advice on living. Likewise, novelist Isabel Allende presents "an impassioned defense of the labor and the art of writing" in Story Telling, a cache of wisdom earned through her very long career. Whether its books about books or writers on writing, there's always something new to learn from taking a closer look at the wonderfully dynamic and creative community behind the literary arts.