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Pirates are as popular as ever this summer. But many myths surround Blackbeard and his brothers. Gail Selinger, author of The Complete Idiot's Guide to Pirates, addresses what's fact and what goes overboard.

Psychologist and family therapist Dr. Dan Gottlieb's new book Letters to Sam is a collection of lessons on life he wrote to his grandson. Two decades ago, Gottlieb became a quadriplegic in an automobile accident. His grandson is autistic, and the letters have lessons about what it's like to be different.

Professor Daniel Byman talks about new book, Deadly Connections: States That Sponsor Terrorism. He explores the symbiotic relationship between terrorist organizations and their state sponsors. Byman is associate professor in Georgetown University's Edmund A. Walsh School of Foreign Service and director of Georgetown's Security Studies Program and Center for Peace and Security Studies.

Laden with vernacular and violence, Gautam Malkani's debut novel Londonstani follows four Asian teenage kids in London's rough Hounslow borough. The result is a comic but sometimes harrowing portrait of immigration, identity and status.

Charles Johnson is a renowned novelist, essayist and writer of short stories. His novel Middle Passage won the 1990 National Book Award. Lately, his own reading has been directed at an upcoming historical work.

Journalist T. Christian Miller of The Los Angeles Times talks about his new book, Blood Money: Wasted Billions, Lost Lives, and Corporate Greed in Iraq. Miller writes, "In almost every way, the rebuilding has fallen short."

Comic Artie Lange of The Howard Stern Show opens up about his problems with food, women and drugs in the memoir Too Fat to Fish.

Classic novels like Great Expectations and Anna Karenina may have seemed boring when they were taught in school. But a new book says these classics actually provide plenty of reading pleasure for the adults that revisit them.

Almost every sports fan has filled out a bracket before the NCAA men's basketball tournament. What if instead of a tourney of college hoops teams, you had a bracket of memorable speech lines, or greatest Jewish baseball players or, well, just about anything? What you get is The Final Four of Everything by editors Mark Reiter and Richard Sandomir.

A sloppy signature and unreadable handwriting rankles author Kitty Burns Florey. She says good penmanship is on the decline — and she knows where to point the finger.