Mark Harris returns to discuss his essay on Midnight Cowboy for the Criterion restoration Blu-Ray.

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Mark Harris returns to discuss his essay on Midnight Cowboy for the Criterion restoration Blu-Ray.

Radio personality and author Geoffrey Mark discusses his new book, Ella: A Biography Of The Legendary Ella Fitzgerald. Plus a vintage interview with the late big band singer Monica Lewis.

Richard Lloyd, guitarist for the band Television has written a very unusual and terrific memoir, Everything Is Combustable: Television, CBGB’s and Five Decades of Rock and Roll. Listen to our interview here!

Laura Thompson discusses her brilliant biography, Agatha Christie: A Mysterious Life.

Cullen Murphy, son of Prince Valiant artist John Cullen Murphy, discusses his memoir, Cartoon County: My Father and His Friends in the Golden Age of Make-Believe.

Beverly Gray discusses her book Seduced by Mrs. Robinson: How THE GRADUATE Became the Touchstone of a Generation

New Yorker staff writer and music critic and historian Amanda Petrusich talks about Bob Dylan, Scarlett Johansson, Gregg Allman and more!

Joe Hagan talks about his new book, Sticky Fingers: The Life And Times Of Jann Wenner and Rolling Stone Magazine. Meryl Gordon discusses her new book, Bunny Mellon: The Life of an American Style Legend.

Historian Howard Jones discusses his book, My Lai: Vietnam 1968 and the Descent into Darkness,