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Dave Itzkoff, author of Robin

From his rapid-fire stand-up comedy riffs to his breakout role in “Mork & Mindy” and his Academy Award-winning performance in Good Will Hunting, Robin Williams was a singularly innovative and beloved entertainer. He often came across as a man possessed, holding forth on culture and politics while mixing in personal revelations --- all with mercurial, tongue-twisting intensity as he inhabited and shed one character after another with lightning speed.

Week of May 13, 2019

Paperback releases for the week of May 13th include James Patterson’s TARGET: ALEX CROSS, which finds Alex Cross leading an investigation into a series of assassinations that runs so long and deep that a constitutional crisis occurs; AN UNWANTED GUEST, a twisty psychological thriller from Shari Lapena about a weekend retreat at a cozy mountain lodge that is supposed to be the perfect getaway...but when a storm hits, no one is getting away; ROBIN, New York Times culture reporter Dave Itzkoff's definitive biography of Robin Williams --- a compelling portrait of one of America’s most beloved and misunderstood entertainers; and THE WOMAN IN THE WOODS by John Connolly, in which Private Investigator Charlie Parker is hired to track down the identity of a dead woman --- who apparently died in childbirth --- and her missing child.