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Her new book of essays, Lifeform, covers some of the same ground.

But critic Thomas Floyd of the Washington Post writes of the book that Slate wields dream logic and other devices to unpack the same experience in surrealist fashion.

The comic and actor has a new book of essays that cover the same ground as her comedy special Season Professional.

The new book is titled Life Form.

Jessica Mitford was famous for several reasons. One reason was her investigative books, including her bestknown one, The American Way of Death, published in 1963. It revealed how the funeral industry was financially taking advantage of griefstricken Americans.

Jessica Mitford, let's talk a little bit about your writing. You're best known for the book, The American Way of Death, your expose of the funeral industry.

After writing The American Way of Death, did you find yourself in the position of having to genuinely prepare somebody's funeral and having to shop for real in the funeral industry?

when he'd just written his Memoir titled Me.

So the book has a very candid description of your life.

James McBride, who also wrote the novels The Color of Water and The Good Lord Bird.

and Going Clear, his book about Scientology.

There was one time I dropped into a colleague's barracks room to borrow a book, The Psychology of Killing.

His most popular music was the music he wrote for Broadway musicals, including On the Town, Wonderful Town, West Side Story, and Candide.

And then in another instance, she, having been banned from Facebook, having read also Sheryl Sandberg's memoir, Lean In, she goes to the Facebook offices in California and sort of tries to insinuate herself into their workplace environment saying, you know, I'm leaning in. I just want to be here. I just want to be heard. Why don't you want me here?

there is a big metaphor like in literature you have it, for example, the white whale, Moby Dick, and the hunt for it or Don Quixote attacking the windmills with his lance.

whose racist bestseller The Passing of the Great Race garnered a fan letter from Adolf Hitler, were all simultaneous residents of the Burrough.

we're headed to the open range with Morning Edition's Michelle Martin to break down Charles Portis' classic True Grit.

She adapted her first bestselling book, Fleishman Is in Trouble, and to the FX on Hulu series under the same name where she served as the writer, showrunner, and executive producer.

She is also the writer, showrunner and executive producer of the FX on Hulu limited series Fleischman Is in Trouble, an adaptation of her first bestselling novel.

She's the author of the FX/Hulu limited series Fleischman Is in Trouble, an adaptation of her first bestselling novel.

Taffy BrodesserAkner adapted her previous novel, Fleishman Is in Trouble, into a limited FX series on Hulu.

Terry Gross spoke with Norman Lear in 2014, when he had written his autobiography, Even This I Get to Experience.

Graham's new book is The Project.

His essays and novels addressed racial issues head on. Baldwin's best known works include Go Tell It on the Mountain, Giovanni's Room, Nobody Knows My Name, The Fire Next Time, and Another Country.

Go Tell It on the Mountain was a fairly autobiographical novel.

James McBride, who also wrote the novels The Color of Water and The Good Lord Bird.

He illustrated the classic children's book The Phantom Tollbooth.

Wright is probably best known for his Pulitzer Prizewinning book, The Looming Tower, about the rise of AlQaeda.

It was based on a book by Robert Block.

Well, actually, in the novel, it's only two pages.

The film was adapted from Lynn's memoir, which described how she grew up in poverty in eastern Kentucky, became a wife at age 15, and after having four children, started writing songs and performing.