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Judith Geisberg's arresting book also called Last Seen closely reads 10 of those ads giving readers a deeper sense of the lived experience of slavery and its aftermath.

A Marriage at Sea by Sophie Elmhurst tells how in 1972 Morris and Marilyn Bailey spent four months adrift in the middle of the Pacific after a whale knocked a hole in their wooden sloop, holding themselves together mentally by focusing on small things like the card games that Marilyn devised.

I got a book of Cruel Shoes, this amazing short story collection he had written.

I have a book that had the address of all the movie studios and TV networks. And so I would write Carol Burnett... I got an autograph from Andy Kaufman... I kept writing Paul Lind again. He sent me another one.

I was always a fan of these books like the Marx Brothers scrapbook, and there was a Saturday Night Live scrapbook that came out in the 70s.

I was always a fan of these books like the Marx Brothers scrapbook, and there was a Saturday Night Live scrapbook that came out in the 70s.

Terry first spoke to Susan Stamberg in 1982 about her book Every Night at Five, about All Things Considered and her decade on the air.

After the publication of her book, Talk, which featured excerpts of 20 years of interviews and reflections on her work.

She was touring with the novel, her last novel, A Book of Common Prayer.

The newly released movie Fairyland, produced by Sofia Coppola and directed by Andrew Durham, stars Scoot McNary as a gay single father raising his daughter in San Francisco in the 1970s. It's based on a memoir of the same name by Alicia Abbott, who wrote about growing up in the early years of the gay rights movement in the capital of gay America, San Francisco.

Alicia Abbott, welcome to Fresh Air. I'm so glad you wrote this book because I feel like we, or at least I've read a lot more about what it's like to be a gay parent than what it's like to be a child of a gay parent.

A lot of your memoir is based on your father's journals and on letters he wrote and my impression reading your book was that he had meant he had intended those journals to be read it by you at some point so that you would understand more of who your father was.