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Ripley is based on the Patricia Highsmith novel The Talented Mr. Ripley, the first of several books about Tom Ripley

Sheenan's book is Jesus Wept

His new memoir is called Talk to Me, Lessons from a Family Forged by History.

my guest is Rich Benjamin. He's the author of the new book, Talk to Me.

Rich Benjamin's new memoir is called Talk to Me, Lessons from a Family Forged by History.

Her other books include Twilight of Democracy, Red Famine, Stalin's War on Ukraine, and Gulag, A History, which won the Pulitzer Prize for general nonfiction.

Horwitz, who was a fit 60-year-old, died ... a few days after his book, Spying on the South, was published.

Like his 1998 bestseller, Confederates in the Attic, Spying on the South presciently explored the great divide in America between red states and blue.

She was able to finish her stalled novel-in-progress, Horse, which was published in 2022.

His 2007 book, Takeover, The Return of the Imperial Presidency and the Subversion of American Democracy, is about the Bush-Cheney administration's efforts to expand the president's power.

Franken even wrote a book of Stuart's daily affirmations and released an audio tape of his guided visualizations. Both of those works were titled, I'm Good Enough, I'm Smart Enough, and Doggone It, People Like Me.

writer and dominatrix Brittany Newell joins us to talk about her new novel Softcore, which explores the underworld of San Francisco's dive bars, strip clubs, and BDSM Dungeons.

Her newest novel, Softcore, takes the reader into San Francisco's underworld of dive bars, strip clubs, and BDSM dungeons, where tech bros, executives, and outcasts live out their fantasies.

I really enjoyed your book. It was such a good read.

Brittany Newell, thank you so much for this book. It was such a fun read and this was such a delightful conversation.

Kay Sohini ... a graphic memoir called This Beautiful, Ridiculous City, affirms the enduring power of New York and the power of literature to give people the courage to cross all manner of borders.

She reviewed This Beautiful, Ridiculous City by Kay Sahini and A Town Without Time by Gay Talese.

wrote her debut novel, Ula, in 2017 when she was 21 years old. It's been described as the millennial Lolita.

Terry Gross first spoke with Marianne FAITHFULL in 1994 upon the publication of FAITHFULL, an Autobiography.

I think that's one of the saddest things in the book, that bit, where I'm in Hazelden, and they asked me to tell my story, and I actually rang Ellen Smith, my publicist, and said to her, please send me up and down with the Rolling Stones because they want my story.

He really helped; he was a really great teacher... he taught me autobiography that it was absolutely essential to put dialogue in or it got very boring.

He helped me write my autobiography and that was a course specially really for me on the writing of autobiography.

He was a professor at Bedford College in London; he taught me autobiography that it was absolutely essential to put dialogue in or it got very boring.

my great great uncle was Baron Leopold von Sacha Masoch who gave his name to masochism and wrote a book called Venus in Furs.

Her newest novel, Softcore, takes the reader into San Francisco's underworld of dive bars, strip clubs, and BDSM dungeons, where tech bros, executives, and outcasts live out their fantasies.

I really enjoyed your book. It was such a good read.

And I want to know, first off, how much of Softcore is fiction and how much of it is based on real life?

Did I feel simpatico with the clients whose names and birthdays I can still recite to this day, Pledge of Allegiance style? Tim, 101075, Pascal, 6969. The oldest client I can remember was born in 1939. All I know, in fact, is this. Men are dying to be let in on the secret pleasures of girlhood. They feel cheated out of ease and glamour. Friend kisses and hushed gossip. Heterosexuality is defined by a longing for wholeness. Terror undergirds desire.

Brittany Newell's new book is titled Softcore.

She wrote her debut novel, ULA, in 2017 when she was 21 years old. It's been described as the millennial Lolita.

She wrote her debut novel, ULA, described as the millennial Lolita in 2017 when she was 21 years old.

Her debut book, a graphic memoir called This Beautiful, Ridiculous City, affirms the enduring power of New York and the power of literature to give people the courage to cross all manner of borders.

This Beautiful, Ridiculous City engages with a good slice of the essential New York City literary canon.

She reviewed This Beautiful Ridiculous City by Kay Sohini and A Town Without Time, Gay Talese's New York.

Filkins is a staff writer for The New Yorker. He has been reporting on Iraq, Afghanistan and the Middle East for decades and is the author of the bestseller, The Forever War.

He's the author of the bestseller The Forever War, which won a National Book Critics Circle Award for nonfiction.

Her new novel, Softcore, explores the underworld of San Francisco's dive bars, strip clubs and BDSM dungeons where tech bros, executives and outcasts live out their fantasies.

Several years before Orly's diagnosis, Wildman wrote the book Paper Love about her grandfather who fled Austria after the Nazi invasion and his girlfriend who he left behind. No one in the family knew what happened to her, but the book describes how Wildman spent years tracking down the story.

Her new book, Black and Blues, explores the significance of blue in black life, from the indigo trade to the birth of blues music.

my guest today, scholar Imani Perry, does that with her new book, Black and Blues, How a Color Tells the Story of My People.