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  • Novelist Sara Gran also writes for the HBO show <em>Southland.</em>
    American Mystery Finds A New Voice On 'The Bohemian Highway'
    This is the second mystery in Sara Gran's series featuring 40-ish bad-girl detective Claire DeWitt. Critic Maureen Corrigan says that reading a noir novel written by a Brooklyn-born author gave her a rush of private-eye, patriotic pride.
  • You'll Want To Hang Up On These 'Secret Conversations'
    Movie star Ava Gardner agreed to write her memoirs with British journalist Peter Evans in 1988. Now, after the deaths of both Gardner and Evans, the results of their abortive collaboration are being published. Reviewer Bob Mondello says the book is dead on arrival.
  • David Rakoff, seen here in 2010, worked on <em>Love, Dishonor, Marry, Die, Cherish, Perish</em> for a decade, finishing shortly before his death in 2012.
    Exclusive First Read: 'Love, Dishonor, Marry, Die, Cherish, Perish'
    Read an exclusive excerpt of David Rakoff's last novel, Love, Dishonor, Marry, Die, Cherish, Perish, a set of humane, witty interlocking vignettes in verse that illustrate the scope of the 20th century, from 1920s Chicago meatpackers to dissatisfied 1980s yuppies.
  • Punjabi Lamb Kebabs, like many tandoor dishes, can also be made on gas or charcoal grills.
    Taking High-Heat Tandoor Techniques To The Backyard Grill
    It's not easy to set up a tandoor oven in the backyard. But chef and writer Madhur Jaffrey says cooking at high heat does something magical to meat, which makes it worthwhile to adapt her tandoor recipes for gas or charcoal grills.
  • <em>The Heat</em>, a female buddy-cop movie starring Melissa McCarthy and Sandra Bullock, made $40 million in its opening weekend, but is one of the few movies in recent history with female leads.
    Casting Call: Hollywood Needs More Women
    Women make up half of movie viewers, and yet they are underrepresented on the big screen. Many more films are made by, for and star men, according to surveys by the Annenberg School. So as Hollywood changes and evolves, can this disparity be fixed?
  • An ancient tablet contains records written in Linear B — a script that was discovered in the 19th century and remained undeciphered for decades.
    How One Woman Nearly Deciphered A Mysterious Script
    For decades, no one could crack the code to a mysterious ancient script called Linear B. In her new book, Margalit Fox tells the story of the forgotten woman who almost figured it out.
  • Jesse Pinkman (Aaron Paul) and Walter White (Bryan Cranston) are plenty difficult themselves on AMC's <em>Breaking Bad</em>, one of many cable shows Brett Martin discusses in his book.
    A Deeper Dive Into Television's 'Difficult Men'
    From Tony Soprano to Don Draper, male characters drive this new — and yet old — form of storytelling. NPR's Linda Wertheimer talks with Brett Martin, author of Difficult Men: Behind the scenes of the Creative Revolution from The Sopranos and the Wire to Mad Men and Breaking Bad.
  • The Man, The Myth, The Reading List: Nelson Mandela
    Nelson Mandela is the former president of South Africa and famed leader of the anti-apartheid movement. Blogger and professor Sean Jacobs recommends three books that explore the leader's life and legacy in great detail.
  • Revved-up Vivaldi, Persian Bamboo And Soaring Spirituals: New Classical Albums
    From an intriguing East meets West merger to Vivaldi played with velocity, NPR Music's Tom Huizenga and host Jacki Lyden explore a wide range of new classical releases.
  • Aerialist Lillian Leitzel came from a family of performers. In 1905, she toured Europe as part of the Leamy Ladies circus attraction, which included Leitzel (far left), her aunts Tina and Toni Pelikan, her mother Nellie Pelikan, and Lily Simpson.
    Lillian Leitzel, The High-Flying 'Queen' Of The Circus
    In the golden age of the circus, aerialist Lillian Leitzel captivated crowds around the world with her effortless, high-flying stunts under the big top. Dean Jensen's new book, Queen of the Air, chronicles Leitzel's difficult but glamorous life, and the lives of her performing family.
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