Photographer Jerry Takigawa, author of Balancing Cultures, and Cheryl A. Head, author of the Charlie Mack Motown Mysteries are this week’s guests.

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Photographer Jerry Takigawa, author of Balancing Cultures, and Cheryl A. Head, author of the Charlie Mack Motown Mysteries are this week’s guests.

Even Golden discusses her latest book, Jayne Mansfield: The Girl Couldn’t Help It.

Actress Ruta Lee, star of stage, screen and television, discusses her wonderful memoir, Consider Your Ass Kissed!

Tess Gerritsen and Gary Braver discuss their new thriller Choose Me.

A visit with Jerry Mathers, star of Leave It To Beaver! Also Ian Logan and Johnathan Glancey discuss LOGOMOTIVE: Railroad Graphics and the American Dream.

Historian Jeff Shesol discusses his new book Mercury Rising: John Glenn, John Kennedy, and the New Battleground of the Cold War.

Martha Bolton, former writer for Bob Hope, discusses Dear Bob: Bob Hope’s Wartime Correspondence with the G.I. s of World War II

Christina Rice discusses her new book, Mean…Moody…Magnificent: Jane Russell and the Marketing of a Hollywood Legend

Ron Brownstein discusses Rock Me On The Water: 1974 The Year Los Angeles Transformed Movies, Music, Television and Politics.

Glenn Frankel returns to discuss his new book, Shooting Midnight Cowboy: Art, Sex, Loneliness, Liberation, and the Making of a Dark Classic.