Books

Also in theaters this week are Aziz Ansari's feature directorial debut and Guillermo del Toro's Frankenstein.

Before there was Rodgers and Hammerstein, there was Rodgers and Hart. Richard Linklater's new film meets lyricist Lorenz Hart on the night he's watching his partnership with composer Richard Rodgers fade away.

Every Monday night for the past five years, chef Samin Nosrat makes dinner with friends. She explains how she's been able to maintain this ritual, plus her "criminally good" recipe for garlic bread.

Susan Stamberg joined NPR at its start, originally to cut tape — literal tape, with a single-sided blade — at a time when commercial networks almost never hired women.

Rebecca dominates du Maurier's legacy, but she wrote plenty of other macabre novels and short stories. A collection called After Midnight gathers 13 of these tales, with an intro by Stephen King.

NoiseCat is the son of an Indigenous Canadian father and white mother. After a cultural genocide, he says, living your life becomes an existential question. His new memoir is We Survived the Night.

Dorie Greenspan knows how to make an elaborate tiered wedding cake cascading with flowers, or a sculpted Darth Vader cake. But she's pretty clear that she doesn't want to.

CNN anchor and chief correspondent Jake Tapper has published two books this year.

Washington, D.C.'s vending machine LitBox distributes books, with a serving of hope as local writers struggle with arts funding cuts.

NPR's Elissa Nadworny speaks with Chris Kraus about her new novel, The Four Spent the Day Together.