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Now he stars in a new Netflix series called Ripley, which is an adaptation of the Patricia Highsmith novel The Talented Mr. Ripley.

It's an eight-hour adaptation of the novel.

we talk with Amanda Montell about her new book she's a linguist known for her sense of humor and for her books word slut and cultish

Martell released only one album in 1970 called Color Me Country. A half century later, it holds up as first rate pop country but at the time, the country industry's racist treatment of Martell buried it.

There are also a few seconds at the start of a tune called Sweet Honey Buckin' when Beyonc murmurs the opening lines of the 1961 Patsy Klein hit I Fall To Pieces.

Dive into Sasheng Liu's The Three Body Problem with a brand new audiobook edition read by Rosalind Xiao, star of the upcoming Netflix series.

Now, Scott stars in a new series, Ripley, adapted from the novel The Talented Mr. Ripley.

Patricia Highsmith wrote her first of several novels about Tom Ripley, a successful con man, back in 1955. Four decades later, that first book, The Talent at Mr. Ripley, was adapted into the 1999 movie starring a young Matt Damon.

His latest is The Wide Wide Sea Imperial Ambition, First Contact and the Faithful Final Voyage of Captain James Cook.

It's one of the kind of forensic questions that comes up repeatedly in my book is what's ailing the captain?

We are speaking with Hampton sides his new book is The Wide Wide Sea Imperial Ambition first contact and the fateful final voyage of Captain James Cook.

Hampton Sides book is The Wide Wide Sea imperial ambition first contact and the fateful final voyage of Captain James Cook.

His book is Hits, Flops, and Other Illusions, My 40-something Years in Hollywood.

And that's our guest Ed's Wic, reading from his new book, hits, flops and other illusions, my 40-something years in Hollywood.

His book also shares plenty of tips he's learned and insights into movie making, like why crying scenes pose such a challenge to shoot, and why actors, directors, and crew all dread sex scenes.

We are speaking with Ed's Wicke he's a veteran writer director and producer his new memoir is hits flops and other illusions my 40 something years in Hollywood.

Ed's Wic is a veteran writer, director and producer. His new memoir is Hitz Flops and Other Illusions, My 40 Something Years in Hollywood.

My guest journalist Nancy Nichols has written a new book about how cars became our most gendered technology.

Nancy Nichols has written a new book called Women Behind the Wheel, an unexpected and personal history of the car.

I really enjoyed your book. What were your preconceptions that you were brought up with about women drivers?

And now as you point out in your book, bodies of cars are made out of some kind of plastics. You don't have to wax them anymore. They're not going to rust. They'll crumble maybe.

Nancy Nichols' new book is called Women Behind the Wheel.

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.

He's also author of the book The Last Yakuza, based on the life of his former bodyguard.

For Colored Girls, it's a raw poetic exploration of what it means to be black and a woman in America.

I still have my hard copy that I stole, sorry, from the Brooklyn Library. I still own it.

Rachel Eliza Griffith is also the author of the novel Promise and several poetry collections, including Seeing the Body.

Zengerle is the author of the new book about Carlson called Hated by All the Right People, Tucker Carlson and the Unraveling of the Conservative Mind.

My guest is Jason Zengerle, author of the new book, Hated by All the Right People, Tucker Carlson and the Unraveling of the Conservative Mind.

Your book is subtitled Tucker Carlson and the Unraveling of the Conservative Mind.

Jason Zengerle is the author of a new book about Tucker Carlson called Hated by All the Right People.

The memoir is called 'The Mixed Marriage Project.'

The memoir is called The Mixed Marriage Project, a memoir of love, race, and family.

Now I knew it wasn't that his falling in love with my mother and marrying her motivated him to do this research. It might have been the opposite.

I feel dizzy as the realization sets in. I am research participant number 224.

But discovering that he considered me an actual subject of study, that was a whole new level of entanglement. I begin to wonder, was I born entirely from his love for my mother? Or was I, in some way, an extension of his mission to document and popularize mixed marriages?

And I do believe that beginning at that young age, I recognized the power of structural racism and could not accept his view that interracial love by itself would be strong enough to transcend it or overcome it or dismantle it. And so from that time on, we began to have debates about it.

Lubna Murai's new book is called Defiance, a memoir of awakening, rebellion, and survival in Syria.

Two parts in particular really got under my skin. First, the toxic family dynamics that honestly feel wincingly familiar to me and probably to many of you listening. And then the less familiar part, she documents how her country fell apart.

Because memoirs, especially memoirs that are filled with pain and grief, they are very difficult to write because you really need to write about people with love and nuance. And write with love even about the people that you hate and despise the most.

And pain tempts us, pain and anger tempts us to see things in absolutes, to flatten people into heroes and villains. And when you do that, you risk leaving parts of the truth out.

I found Defiance to be breathtaking. And I was really pulled in, frankly, because I'm worried about the stability of my own country, the United States.

You may have also heard her interviews on her podcast, Art of Power, or read her migrant memoir, which is about fighting ice to protect her father. It's called Here We Are.

Masters of the Air is based on the book by Donald L. Miller