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In the new book Cocktails with George and Martha writer Philip Gephter tells the story surrounding Edward Albee's Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf.

Gephter's dishy yet earnest new book Cocktails with George and Martha movies marriage and the making of Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf.

Gephter shows why Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf hit the 60s like a torpedo.

John Powers reviewed Cocktails with George and Martha movies marriage and the making of Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf.

The Kamigawa Food Detectives is an offbeat bestselling Japanese mystery series by Hisashi Kashiwai that began appearing in 2013. Published in this country, translated into English by Jesse Kirkwood, the first novel, called The Kamigawa Food Detectives, is composed of interrelated stories with plots as ritualistic as the adventures of Sherlock Holmes.

She's written nine books exploring subcultures and urban history, including Low Life, Lures and Snares of Old New York, Evidence, a collection of AIDS...

She's written nine books exploring subcultures and urban history, including Low Life, Lures and Snares of Old New York, Evidence, a collection of AIDS...

The first novel of a bestselling Japanese mystery series has recently been translated into English. Our book critic, MarieenCarragan, says that while the novel, The Kamagawa Food Detectives, shares some similarities with the Netflix show Midnight Diner, the book follows its own unconventional mystery recipe.

The Kamagawa Food Detectives is an offbeat bestselling Japanese mystery series by Hisashi Kashiwai that began appearing in 2013. Now, the series is being published in this country, translated into English by Jesse Kirkwood.

As a literary meal, the Kamagawa Food Detectives is offbeat and charming, but it also contains more complexity of flavor than you might expect.

Drift was adapted by Suzanne Farrell and Alexander Maksic from Maksic's 2013 novel called A Marker to Measure Drift.

Novelist Frances Spafford's latest work of alternative historical fiction is called Cahokia Jazz. It's a hardboiled detective novel that imagines an America where Native Americans flourished and exerted political power.

Much of the action of Frances Spafford's latest novel, Cahokia Jazz, plays out in the shadows, beginning with its opening scene. At first glance, a classic noir tableau. On a wet night, two police detectives stand on the roof of a downtown office building and stare at the corpse of a white man splayed out on a skylight.

The skylight the victim was bound to with rope is shaped like a pyramid. In another city, that would be a curious but relatively inconsequential detail. But this is Cahokia. In this city, the gutting of a white man atop a pyramid harkens back to Aztec ritual sacrifices and by extension, the indigenous civilization that once flourished in the area.

As he's done in his previous historical novels, Golden Hill and Light Perpetual, Spufford layers this novel with period details. Here he supplies fictitious maps, backstories and historical documents allegedly authored by Jesuit missionaries and founding fathers.

Spufford even draws upon an old trade jargon to flesh out a language, Anopa, that's used in Cahokia, and he scatters phrases liberally throughout the novel.

Picture rows and rows and rows of cots like in the children's book Madeline where she lives in an orphanage and it's just rows and rows of beds.

Terry interviewed Edwards a second time in 2004 about his book on Edward R. Murrow, the man he described as broadcast journalism's patron saint and first great star.

Murrow's obituaries mentioned that he seemed a courtly prince who nevertheless championed the underdog, a sophisticated man with a common touch.

Bob Edwards reading from his new book, Edward R. Murrow and the Birth of Broadcast Journalism.

Coming up, we'll hear another interview he recorded with Terry in 2004 after his book about Edward R. Murrow was published.

He was a driven man who demanded more of himself than he could possibly deliver. Murrow lived by a code too rigid for mere humans to meet.

She made her stage debut in Truman Capote's The Grass Harp.

My first translation is a book called Lie With Me, which is a gay love story that takes place in the 1980s.

My Cousin Maria Schneider, A Memoir, written by the niece of the late actress who starred with Marlon Brando in the 1972 movie Last Tango in Paris.

You translated one that just more recently, my cousin, Maria Schneider, a memoir, which was written by Vanessa Schneider.

Norris has turned the Race Card Project into a new book titled, "Our Hidden Conversations, What Americans Really Think About Race and Identity."

That's an audio snippet from Michelle Norris' new book, "Our Hidden Conversations."

We're listening to my conversation with awardwinning journalist and author Michelle Norris about her new book, Our Hidden Conversations, What Americans Really Think About Race and Identity.

Michelle Norris is the author of the book, Our Hidden Conversations, what Americans really think about race and identity.

She described this project as an archive of the human experience, and it really is moving, educational, sobering, joyous and hopeful in Our Hidden Conversations.

Norris won a Peabody Award in 2013 for the Race Card Project, and her first book, "A Memoir," is titled, "The Grace of Silence."

Her first book is a memoir titled The Grace of Silence.

His script, very loosely drawn from Marcel Rouffe's classic 1924 novel The Passionate Epicure, doesn't have a ton of plot.

How to be a civil rights widow is a chapter title in a new book by my guest, Joy Anne Reed, host of the MSNBC evening show, The Readout.

Her new book about Medgar and Merley Evers is called Medgar and Merley.

Her new book about Medgar and Merley Evers is called Medgar and Merley.

Her new book is called Medgar and Merley.

Medgar Evers and The Love Story That Awakened America.

His new book is called SAFE, A Memoir of Fatherhood, Foster Care and the Risks We Take for Family.

Mark Daly's new memoir is called SAFE.

Norris has turned the Race Card Project into a new book titled Our Hidden Conversations, What Americans Really Think About Race and Identity.

And her first book, a memoir, is titled The Grace of Silence.

Frantz Venant was a Martiniqueborn doctor ... The new biography by Adam Schatz called The Rebels Clinic, The Revolutionary Lives of Frantz Venant.