Books

NPR's A Martinez speaks with CBS News correspondent Jonathan Vigliotti about his new book, "TORCHED: How a City was Left to Burn, and the Olympic Rush to Rebuild L.A."

Pulitzer Prize winner Andrew Sean Greer is out with a new novel, Villa Coco, based on the delights and surprises of a decade living as an American outsider in Italy.

O'Connor says one of the best bits of acting advice he ever received came late one night while filming Steven Spielberg's summer blockbuster — never mind that the text was meant for Spielberg's wife.

Soundgarden guitarist Kim Thayil writes about the ascent of the first grunge band to sign with a major label and the death of lead singer Chris Cornell in his memoir, "A Screaming Life."

NPR's Ailsa Chang chats with author Dave Eggers about his new novel Contrapposto.

NPR's Ailsa Chang talks with actress Laverne Cox about her new memoir Transcendent.

Musgraves' album Middle of Nowhere has the dramatic detail of good fiction. The same is true of Gary Stewart: I Am From the Honky-Tonks, Jimmy McDonough's portrait of a gifted but tragic performer.

The songbirds you see today are directly linked to the velociraptor, triceratops and T. rex.

Theo Baker's investigations for the Stanford University college newspaper eventually led to the resignation of then-president Marc Tessier-Lavigne.

Fifteen years after The Book of Mormon made its Broadway debut, original cast members Andrew Rannells and Josh Gad once again took the stage as Mormon missionaries — this time at the 2026 Tony Awards.