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Author Michael Ruhlman wants to free home cooks from what he calls the "shackles of the recipe." He says home cooks are so focused on recipes that they don't understand the importance of ratios.

Gertrude Ederle was the first woman to swim the English Channel, finishing faster than any of the five men who had done it before. Young Woman and the Sea shows how Ederle's fame grew, then evaporated.

The lone surviving Pakistani gunman from last year's Mumbai attacks surprised the Indian court where he is being tried when he confessed to the crime Monday. But the judge ruled today that the trial will continue despite the confession.

In a kind of supermarket Cinderella story, a cashier in France has become a literary sensation. Anna Sam has turned her ungratifying job into a humorous memoir. Now, her book has been translated into 16 languages and turned the 29-year-old into the author she always wanted to be.

India launched its first moon mission in October amid a great gust of patriotic excitement about securing membership in the world's tiny lunar explorers' club — which includes its regional rival, China. Despite the mission's technical problems — and the space program's huge costs — Indian scientists' ambitions are high.

Author Monica Ali spent an entire year poking around "below stairs" in five London Hotel restaurants before she started writing latest novel.

The Mad Ones is the tale of real-life gangsters Larry, Albert "Kid Blast" and "Crazy" Joe Gallo — a Mafia clan that inspired Bob Dylan's "Joey" and were a major inspiration for The Godfather.

Stephen Carter has a new thriller called Jericho's Fall. Linda Wertheimer talks to him about the basis for his tale of spies, official secrecy and financial fraud. The story centers on a former director of the Central Intelligence Agency and his leverage against the other players in his shadowy world. This is Carter's fourth novel but his first spy thriller.

A former vice president at Lehman Brothers says that though the company was "never rotten at the core," it was "rotten at the head." In his new book, A Colossal Failure of Common Sense, Lawrence G. McDonald explores what led to the company's collapse — and who's to blame.

The only surviving gunman from last year's terrorist attack on Mumbai formally confessed his guilt Monday. Pakistani citizen Mohammad Ajmal Kasab surprised Indian court officials when he reportedly rose during questioning of witnesses and said, "I want to confess."