PW Picks: Books Of The Week, January 13, 2014

Best New Books Out This Week

This week, the true story that inspired Herman Melville, a pizza hotline, and a soldier's exorcism. Plus: a new translation of The Human Comedy.

'The Human Comedy: Selected Stories' by Honoré de Balzac, trans. from the French by Linda Asher, Carol Cosman, and Jordan M. Stump, edited by Peter Brooks (New York Review Books)

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