As a professional purveyor of Southern sass, nationally-syndicated humor columnist and best-selling author Celia Rivenbark has no compunction about telling the world what she thinks. Armed with her new etiquette manual, she tells our listeners how to behave (bless their hearts).
Pulitzer prizewinning humorist, author, and columnist Dave Barry takes over our etiquette column this week, offering advice for all sidewalks of life.
Canadian writer Zsuzsi Gartner is known for her dark comic skewering of modern life. Her story collection “Better Living Through Plastic Explosives” was shortlisted for the Giller Prize - Canada’s highest for fiction. Today we overhear her read an artful passage.
Nigel Slater is among the most famous and beloved food writers in the world - but, he tells us, he's neither chef nor celebrity.
Elizabeth Gilbert, the woman who launched a thousand book clubs with her 2006 best-seller "Eat, Pray, Love," is back with a new novel, "The Signature of All Things," set in the world of nineteenth century elites.
The creator of "Bone" and editor of "Best American Comics 2013" goes beyond the newspaper strip to select some of the most interesting new comics being created.
Margaret Atwood has published 21 novels, 11 non-fiction books, and 15 collections of poetry, including "The Handmaid's Tale" and "The Blind Assassin." Her newest novel, "MaddAddam" is the conclusion of a dystopian trilogy that integrates her real-life environmental activism into her fictional world.
The emmy-winning "Project Runway" host, author, and educator ad-dresses issues of accessorizing and fashion victimhood, then reveals a surprising "don't" he almost did.
With the *eighteenth* installment in the best-selling "Jack Reacher" thriller series hitting bookshelves this month, we asked the author to list a few fictional tough-guys who inspired his protagonist.
Jonathan Lethem takes us to the rural farmland of New Jersey in this excerpt from his new novel, "Dissident Gardens."