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Susan Loesser details the life and work of her father, the late Broadway composer Frank Loesser, in her 1993 memoir, A Most Remarkable Fella.

Crime novelist Richard Price explores the fragile and often fractious relationship between Manhattan's Lower East Side denizens in his most recent book, Lush Life.

In his years covering the Middle East for The New York Times, Neil MacFarquhar spent time observing many of the customs. He describes some of them in his new book, The Media Relations Department of Hizbollah Wishes You a Happy Birthday.

In her new memoir, When You Lie About Your Age, the Terrorists Win: Reflections on Looking in the Mirror, stand-up comedian and Seinfeld writer Carol Leifer recounts her experiences working as a comedian.

Marc Blatte's first novel is billed as "hip hop noir" — a thriller set in the record studios and hip hop clubs of New York City — with a full serving of drugs, thugs, cops and violent death.

Journalist Michelle Goldberg discusses the politics, ideology and history of reproductive rights around the world in her new book The Means of Reproduction.

NPR's Robert Siegel talks with NPR's Philip Reeves about the investigation into how audio of Saddam Hussein's court appearance Thursday was transmitted around the world, despite a ban by an Iraqi judge on audio feeds from the courtroom.

Host Debbie Elliott talks with author Jeanne Birdsall, the winner of this year's National Book Award for Young People's Literature, about her book, The Penderwicks: A Summer Tale of Four Sisters, Two Rabbits, and a Very Interesting Boy.

Book critic Maureen Corrigan reviews the new memoir The Tender Bar by Los Angeles Times reporter J.R. Moehringer. It tells the tale of his dysfunctional family on Long Island — and the community's center, the local bar.

Former Secretary of State Madeline Albright gives her views on the war in Iraq, the United States' relationship with Iran and other foreign policy issues.