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Larry Ashmead is the author of the book Bertha Venation: And Hundreds of Other Funny Names of Real People. Ashmead talks about the list of improbable and amusing names he has compiled over the years.

Philip Roth's new novel is about a 71-year-old multi-divorced, successful advertising man who is facing his physical deterioration and approaching death — without the aid of religion or philosophy. One reviewer called Everyman a "swift, brutal novel about a heartbreakingly ordinary subject."

Greats including Winston Churchill and Graham Greene weigh in on the legendary comic actor Charlie Chaplin in a new essay collection. Editor Richard Shickel talks about The Essential Chaplin.

With memorable illustrations from painter Ted Harrison, the morbidly funny 1907 Robert Service poem about the fate of a Yukon gold prospector is resurrected as a children's story.

Prince Charles is very keen on organic fertilizers, especially those brewed from seaweed and rain water. He has written a book on organic gardening, Elements of Organic Gardening, which is coming out in the United States this week.

In the book Musicophilia: Tales of Music and the Brain, neurologist Oliver Sacks explores the relationship between music and the mind. Through a series of clinical case studies, Sacks examines the role of music in our lives.

Primatologist duo Dorothy Cheney and Robert Seyfarth discuss their new book, Baboon Metaphysics. The husband-and-wife team spent years studying a group of baboons in Botswana to better understand the primates' complex social structure.

Geologic pressures force ancient layers of rock above ground, exposing their cargo of fossils. Paleontologist Kirk Johnson and artist Ray Troll search the western United States for fossils and chronicle their finds in a new book, Cruisin' the Fossil Freeway.

Gonzo journalist Frank Owen, author of Clubland: The Fabulous Rise and Murderous Fall of Club Culture, has turned his attention to the history of the drug methamphetamine — and he went on a four-day meth binge as part of his reporting. The book is titled No Speed Limit: The Highs and Lows of Meth.

With Congress out of town on recess, citizens and lawmakers can prepare themselves for next month's assessment of the war in Iraq by reading a new comic novel: Hocus Potus, from former Time and Newsweek correspondent Malcolm MacPherson.