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His books include The New York Trilogy, Moon Palace, Leviathan and the Book of Illusions.

His new book, coauthored with Sophie Cull, is called The Jailhouse Lawyer.

Calvin Duncan's new book is called The Jailhouse Lawyer. It's cowritten by Sophie Cull.

He's written several books about the intersection of law, business, and power, and Servants of the Damned, Giant Law Firms, Donald Trump, and the Corruption of Justice.

Her landmark books, Killing the Black Body and Torn Apart, helped reshape how we understand the policing of reproduction, parenting, and race in America.

If heaven, according to the talking heads, is the place where nothing ever happens, the Bardo, according to George Saunders, is as jampacked and frantic as Costco on Black Friday. Saunders set much of his magnificent 2017 debut novel, Lincoln in the Bardo, in the actual mausoleum and surrounding cemetery, where in February of 1862, Abraham Lincoln sat cradling the body of his 11yearold son, Willie.

The book is called Stay True and was awarded a Pulitzer this year, cited as an eloquent and poignant comingofage account that considers intense youthful friendships, but also random violence that can suddenly and permanently alter the presumed logic of our personal narratives.

His memoir, Stay True, was awarded the Pulitzer Prize this year. His book is about his teenage and college years and his search for identity.

The result was the 1991 Showtime documentary Hearts of Darkness of filmmakers apocalypse a hauntingly honest look at a film and filmmaker lost in the jungle just like the story's protagonist.

Yeah it's amazing there's a wonderful new book called Barrens about the food industry written by Austin Freerich and he told me in the book something I had no idea that there's one company called J.A.B. Holding Company and it's controlled by this very secretive family in Germany, the Rymans and J.A.B. Holding Company sells more coffee than Starbucks.

Arthur says that living your life through the lens of death can actually make you happier her new book is called Briefly Perfectly Human

On tomorrow's show writer Salman Rushdie talks about the knife attack while he was on stage that doctors didn't expect him to survive. This was 33 years after Iran's Ayatollah Khomeini issued a fatwa a religious ruling calling for Rushdie's death as punishment for his book The Satanic Versus.

Now he's starring as a con man with no conscience in the new Netflix series Ripley, an adaptation of the Patricia Highsmith novel The Talented Mr Ripley.

you know it's an eight-hour adaptation of the novel so we have a sort of very particular opportunity in this one to spend an inordinate amount of time with a singular character

Andrew Scott stars in the new Netflix series Ripley an adaptation of the Patricia Heismith novel The Talented Mr Ripley.

His books include Inside Warner Brothers and behind the scene.

His books include Inside Warner Brothers and behind the scene.

she switches out Dostoevsky's crime and punishment for a later novel of his you know the one called The Idiot

his great uncle gave him a copy of a book that was written in the middle of the 19th century called Explorations and Adventures in Equatorial Africa by a man by the name of Paul Ducheloux and in it he's describing these terrifying gorillas

Her previous book the Lake Effect was an investigation into whether the elevated cancer rates in her community including in her own family were a result of toxic fumes from nearby paint factories and hazardous waste that was dumped in nearby superfund sites

We're going to listen to Terry's 2004 interview with Steve Rifle author of a book about the making of Godzilla and its many sequels titled Japan's Favorite Monstar.

rifle is the author of Japan's favorite monstar about the original Godzilla and its many sequels

She's also the author of two other nonfiction books including Cultish and Word Slut, a feminist guide to taking back the English language.

And I explored that topic in the context of gender in my first book, Word Slut, which is kind of a quick and dirty crash course in feminist sociolinguistics.

And Daniel Kahneman, anyone who's read Thinking Fast and Slow or Noise Will Be Familiar.

she switches out dostoyevsky's crime and punishment for a later novel of his you know the one called The Idiot