Josh Gondelman, senior producer of Showtime's Desus & Mero, explains why he gives strangers pep talks on Twitter, and faces off against comedian Catherine Cohen in a game about sports superstitions.
It's a mash-up of clues about authors' names and common beach objects. If Jay Gatsby put on sunscreen at the beach, he'd have S-P-F Scott Fitzgerald to thank.
Catherine Cohen talks about New York's cabaret resurgence and the art of fusing fashion with comedy. Then, she challenges Josh Gondelman to a trivia rematch inspired by her former job in a mattress showroom.
Peter Houlahan's account of the violent robbery and its aftermath is based on interviews with civilians, officers and robbers involved; his prose reads like a crime novel in the best way possible.
After his son's birth, Dirk Anschütz photographed fathers and sons for six years. "There's a lot of change going on right now regarding what fatherhood means, what masculinity means," he says.
Television producer Deb Spera draws on her childhood in rural Branchville, S.C. in her first novel, painting a bleak, atmospheric portrait of three women's lives in the South during the 1920s.
In the Showtime drama, the actor plays an assistant district attorney who teams up with a corrupt (and racist) FBI veteran in 1990s Boston. "We play the honesty of it," Hodge says.