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She won two Academy Awards for The Prime of Miss Jean Brody and California Suite.

Let's talk a bit about The Prime of Miss Jean Brody.

And that is our guest Maggie Smith in our performance that won her the Best Actress Oscar, the prime of Miss Jean Brody in 1969.

You wrote in your memoir a few years ago, and I got to say the name of your memoir because I also am just curious how you come up with titles. But your memoir was titled Pimps, Hoes, Playahatahs and All the Rest of My Hollywood Friends.

His new book, The Message, is about what he learned about race and identity visiting three different places.

His new book, The Message, is about his reflections on race, slavery, colonialism and identity on trips to South Carolina, Senegal and Israel and the West Bank.

His new book is called The Message. We'll be back after a short break.

I bought myself Craig Claybourne's New York Times cookbook which is a big deal at the time and I just started cooking my way through that book.

You wrote a book called Antisocial. Online extremists, techno utopians and the hijacking of the American conversation, which explores how fringe political groups and online trolls exploited social media to influence the 2016 election.

Timothy Krause? He wrote in his book, The Boys on the Bus, which is about covering the 72 presidential campaign, that he says this about you...

His novel Strip Tease was made into a film starring Demi Moore, and his 1986 book Tourist Season was described as the first book about sex, murder, and corruption on the professional bass fishing circuit.

Our critic at large John Powers is a big fan of these mysteries, and he's just read the latest one, Death at the Sign of the Rook.

John says it draws on our memories of classic country house mysteries, and then gives it an amusing twirl.

The latest arrival in this neighborhood is Death at the Sign of the Rook, the sunny sixth entry in Kate Atkinson's addictive series about Jackson Brody.

On the contrary, Death at the Sign of the Rook strews loose ends all over the Yorkshire countryside.

The book flirts with and tweaks golden age mysteries like those of Agatha Christie.

Of course, Atkinson also writes prizewinning literary fiction. Her masterpiece is 2015's A God in Ruins.

Ruman Alam's popular novel, Leave the World Behind, was a finalist for the National Book Award and was made into a movie.

Ruman Alam's bestselling novel, Leave the World Behind, was an inspired swirl of suspense, social commentary and apocalyptic disaster story.

Given that it was published in the early fall of 2020, the novel eerily coincided with the first year of the pandemic.

Alam's new novel is called Entitlement, and it focuses on the dangerous allure of what's been called our New Gilded Age.

Entitlement is about money, race, identity, privilege, class and consumption.

He wrote in his book, The Boys on the Bus, which is about covering the 72 presidential campaign that he says this about you, quote, TV correspondents would join the We Our Poker games or drinking Connie Chung, the pretty Chinese CBS correspondent, occupied the room next to mine.

Now they've written a new book called Lucky Loser, how Donald Trump squandered his father's fortune and created the illusion of success.

Their new book is called Lucky Loser, how Donald Trump squandered his father's fortune and created the illusion of success.

Their new book is called Lucky Loser, how Donald Trump squandered his father's fortune and created the illusion of success.

Suzanne Craig and Russ Buetner are the authors of the new book, Lucky Loser.

Their new book is called Lucky Loser, how Donald Trump squandered his father's fortune and created the illusion of success.

I titled my memoir Inside Out because I really feel that is the pathway to the greatest joy, happiness and wellbeing.

authors of the new book, Lucky Loser, how Donald Trump squandered his father's fortune and created the illusion of success based on eight years of their investigation into Trump's finances.

Terry Gross spoke with Jones in 1993 when he had published his memoir Voices and Silences.

In your memoir, Voices and Silences, you devote a total of about a paragraph to Star Wars, to your voice as Darth Vader.

I was also surprised and delighted to find he's also the author of a new book about the club in Asbury Park ... The book is called I Don't Want to Go Home, the Oral History of the Stone Pony. Springsteen wrote the introduction.

He's also the author of the new book I Don't Want to Go Home, The Oral History of the Stone Pony.

He covers elections and voting for The New York Times, and he's the author of the new book I Don't Want to Go Home, The Oral History of the Stone Pony.

My guests are two New York Times tech reporters who are the authors of the new book Character Limit How Elon Musk Destroyed Twitter.

My guests are the authors of the new book, Character Limit, How Elon Musk Destroyed Twitter.

new book, Character Limit, How Elon Musk Destroyed Twitter. We'll be right back.

The authors of the new book, Character Limit, How Elon Musk Destroyed Twitter.

Jessica Pischko's new book is called The Highest Law in the Land, How the Unchecked Power of Sheriffs Threatens Democracy.

She's written a new book called The Highest Law in the Land, How the Unchecked Power of Sheriffs Threatens Democracy.

Jessica Piszczko, author of The Highest Law in the Land, How the Unchecked Power of Sheriffs Threatens Democracy.

In her new book, The Highest Law in the Land, she writes that a growing group of constitutional sheriffs have become a flashpoint in the current politics of toxic masculinity, guns, white supremacy, and rural resentment.