Julian Zelizer, author of The Fierce Urgency of Now, lists the best, most three-dimensional portrayals of LBJ, from the play 'All the Way' to Robert Caro's Master of the Senate. (READ MORE)
On the occasion of David Bowie’s 68th birthday and what would have been Elvis Presley’s 80th, let’s have a rock ‘n’ roll music-memoir face-off.(READ MORE)
Patrick Sauer's favorite book of 2014 has earned that title for many reasons. Let's start counting them...(READ MORE)
Some time in 1969, writer Beau Riffenburgh, still in high school, went to see Robert Redford and Paul Newman in "Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid." The movie stuck with him, but not because of the title characters. Riffenburgh was intrigued by the guys who were chasing Redford and Newman. Then, just...(READ MORE)
How much of fact can you bend to your needs as a novelist? Jennifer Chiaverini, author of Mrs. Lincoln's Dressmaker and Mrs. Lincoln's Rival, answers that and more for us.(READ MORE)
Joining us for another installment of Behind the Books, Edward Larson talks about his writing routine, the influence of nature writers on his own work, the active imagination of history writing, and the all-important counsel for aspiring writers: "Write every day."(READ MORE)
We asked Cristin O’Keefe Aptowicz, author of Dr Mütter’s Marvels: A True Tale of Intrigue and Innovation at the Dawn of Modern Medicine, to tell us about the most interesting things she learned while researching her book.(READ MORE)
In her latest novel, The Moor’s Account, Laila Lalami channels the voice of the first black explorer of America, a Moroccan slave named Mustafa al-Zamori, who was called Estebanico.(READ MORE)
David Laskin, author of The Family: A Journey into the Heart of the Twentieth Century, joins us to discuss the boundaries of "biography," and how his most recent memoir serves as a personal and public testament to our shared past. (READ MORE)
Mark Kurlansky highlights the lives of fishermen in his book 'Cod: A Biography of the Fish that Changed the World.' (READ MORE)
