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Ariel Levy is a contributing editor at New York magazine, where she writes about sexuality, culture and gender politics. Her new book is Female Chauvinist Pigs: Women and the Rise of Raunch Culture. One reviewer writes that Levy "strips the 'Girls Gone Wild' culture of its cuteness in her provocative [book], arguing that post-feminist poster girls such as Playboy Bunnies offer only faux empowerment."

Dorie Greenspan calls herself the "baking evangelist." In her new cookbook, Baking: From My Home to Yours, she shares easy Thanksgiving recipes: sweet-potato biscuits, all-in-one holiday bundt cake and pumpkin marshmallows.

What does it mean to be Good Without God? Greg Epstein, Humanist Chaplain at Harvard University, asks this question in his new book, which explores the faith of the nonreligious. It may sound like a contradiction, but Epstein believes that human ethics are independent of belief in a supernatural power.

In his book, 31 Days: The Crisis That Gave Us the Government We Have Today, Journalist Barry Werth chronicles the days following Richard Nixon's resignation and leading to Gerald Ford's swearing-in as President of the United States. Werth's articles have appeared in The New Yorker, The New York Times Magazine and Outside. This interview originally aired on Apr. 13, 2006.

Author Chris Offutt will read "A Good Pine," a short story set in his native Kentucky. In it, an old man raising his granddaughter alone is determined to get her a Christmas tree from the woods. But he has a problem — his axe is broken.

Retired CIA field officer Larry Devlin was appointed CIA station chief in Zaire in the Congo in 1960, following the Congo's independence from Belgium. Devlin has written a memoir about his experiences, Chief of Station, Congo: Fighting the Cold War in a Hot Zone.

Louisiana State medical examiner Louis Cataldie was the coroner for the East Baton Rouge Parish in Louisiana from 1998 to 2003. When Hurricane Katrina hit, Dr. Cataldie helped to evacuate patients and set up field hospitals. He also aided the injured and investigated deaths.

Gabrielle Giffords is having a busy summer. Here on Earth — specifically, in the state of Arizona — the former state senator is a Democrat in a wild six-way congressional primary campaign. Meanwhile, in space, her boyfriend Mark Kelly is piloting the shuttle Discovery.

Ten of Karen Russell's short stories make up her first book. One character's father is a Minotaur; another sings in an Alaskan boys choir. The title story is St. Lucy's Home for Girls Raised by Wolves. The Florida-born Russell, 25, has also graced the pages of The New Yorker and other magazines.

His momma named him Bill Hufnagle, but to fans of his books and his syndicated public access TV show, he's simply Biker Billy... a man who cooks with fire. His following includes people who love the open road and who share his outlook on life and spicy foods.