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  • In his new book, Killing Yourself to Live, senior writer for Spin magazine and Esquire columnist Chuck Klosterman travels to and explores every venue of rock star demise, from the Chelsea Hotel to the swamp where Lynyrd Skynyrd's plane went down.… more

  • John Shelby Spong is one of the leading spokespersons for liberal Christianity and the author of many books, including the bestselling and controversial Rescuing the Bible from Fundamentalism , written during his tenure as Episcopal bishop of… more

  • Bob Herbert has been an op-ed columnist for The New York Times since 1993, and was previously a correspondent for NBC News and a reporter, columnist, and editorial board member for the New York Daily News. His work is characterized by a strong… more

  • Bebe Moore Campbell is the author of three New York Times bestsellers: Brothers and Sisters, Singing in the Comeback Choir, and What You Owe Me. 72 Hour Hold is a novel of family and redemption concentrating on the relationship between Keri and… more

  • Featuring award-winning poet Lamont B. Steptoe, African music by the Women's Sekere Ensemble, and a discussion by Dr. Desmond Johns, a South African medical doctor and Director of the UN AIDS Office.

  • Paul Theroux has written more than two dozen novels, including The Mosquito Coast , Kowloon Tong, and most recently, Hotel Honolulu. His acclaimed travel writing includes The Old Patagonian Express, The Happy Isles of Oceania , and Dark Star… more

  • Bruce Campbell is the ultimate "B" movie actor and the star of director Sam Raimi's cult classics Evil Dead, Evil Dead II, and Army of Darkness. His autobiography, If Chins Could Kill , was a major sleeper hit in 2001 and became a New York Times… more

  • The author of Ghost World and David Boring, Daniel Clowes is widely regarded as one of the most brilliant cartoonists of his generation. His ongoing comic, Eightball, was one of the most talked-about series of the 1990s, and the film version of… more

  • Inspired by Virginia Woolf and her novel, Mrs. Dalloway, Michael Cunningham's best-selling novel, The Hours, won both the Pulitzer Prize and the PEN/Faulkner Award, and became the Academy Award-winning film starring Meryl Streep, Nicole Kidman,… more

  • Nick Hornby is the author of three previous novels , High Fidelity, About a Boy, and How to be Good, and two works of non-fiction, Fever Pitch and 31 Songs, and has edited two anthologies, My Favourite Year and Speaking With the Angel. His… more

  • When Julius and Ethel Rosenberg were executed for treason in 1953, their family's destiny was forever changed. Join their sons, Robert Meeropol ( An Execution in the Family: One Son's Journey ) and Michael Meeropol ( Heir to an Execution ) for a… more

  • The concluding volume of Newt Gingrich and William Forstschen's best-selling, alternative civil war trilogy opens with Grant's army pursuing Robert E. Lee's confederates deep into Maryland territory after a surprising rebel victory near… more

  • Molly Ivins has called Thomas Frank's New York Times bestseller What's the Matter with Kansas ? " hilariously funny . . . the only way to understand why so many Americans have decided to vote against their own economic and political interests."… more

  • A two-time Pulitzer Prize winner and National Book Award recipient, historian David McCullough has chronicled the greats of American history from John Adams to Harry Truman. In 1776, McCullough tackles the story of America's tumultuous beginning,… more

  • The sparkling memoir of a movie icon's life in the footlights and on camera, The Good, the Bad, and Me tells the extraordinary story of Eli Wallach's many years dedicated to his craft. Beginning with his early days in Brooklyn and his college… more

  • Chilean author Isabel Allende has written many books, including Portrait in Sepia, Eva Luna, the memoir Paula, and a new novel on the legend of Zorro. Her novel, Daughter of Fortune, was an Oprah book club selection, and The House of the Spirits… more

  • • Recorded May 18, 2005

    Walter Mosley is the best-selling author of Little Scarlet , Fear Itself , and Bad Boy Brawley Brown ; the acclaimed Easy Rawlins series of mysteries; and other works of fiction and nonfiction in nearly every genre. His latest book and first… more

  • With his regular contributions to Sports Illustrated (where his by-line first appeared in 1962) and NPR's Morning Edition, Frank Deford is one of the most influential voices in the American sports media. The author of fourteen books and a Hall of… more

  • Peter D. Kramer, a practicing psychiatrist and professor of psychiatry at Brown University, is the author of the international bestseller Listening to Prozac: A Psychiatrist Explores Mood-altering Drugs and the Meaning of the Self. The book was a… more

  • Jonathan Eig, Luckiest Man: The Life and Death of Lou Gehrig - Jonathan Eig is a senior special writer for The Wall Street Journal, has written for Esquire, The New Republic , and other major magazines, and has appeared on CNN, FOX, MSNBC, and… more