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Join New Books Amazon senior editor Al Woodworth has picks for great fiction and nonfiction in our current issue. Here are five more you might like. Dear Bob… by Martha Bolton and Linda Hope. Comic and USO performer Bob Hope would get thousands of letters a week from the soldiers he entertained during World War II. This is a collection of some of those letters and his responses. The New York Times Cooking No-Recipe Recipes by Sam Sifton. Of course, you can’t have a recipe book without rec...

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Samantha Schoech March 9, 2021Updated: March 9, 2021, 1:46 pm “You’re Leaving When? Adventures in Downward Mobility,” by Annabelle Gurwitch. Photo: Counterpoint If you are, like Annabelle Gurwitch, “just another ordinary cisgender heterosexual” woman of a certain age, reading her new collection of personal essays, “You’re Leaving When?” will most likely feel like a long, intimate chat with your funniest friend. Gurwitch is a bestselling author and one of those actor...

Annabelle Gurwitch is also the author of I See You Made an Effort and Wherever You Go, There They Are. Jason Rothenberg/Counterpoint Press "It was the worst of times. It was the worst of times." Author Annabelle Gurwitch now scoffs at those opening lines of her new memoir — she had no idea just how bad it would get. In Youre Leaving When? Adventures in Downward Mobility, Gurwitch finds herself divorced after a 22-year marriage, an empty-nester with no retirement plan. After los...

By Liza Monroy | These days, essayist Annabelle Gurwitch ( You’re Leaving When?, Counterpoint, Apr.) appreciates writing that offers closure. “With the pandemic, everything’s taking so much longer,” she says. “It seems harder to complete tasks, but reading essays and short stories, I get that beginning, middle, and end experience.” Personal essays in particular can offer a welcome sense of connection with the writer, say other practitioners of the form. “One of the th...