Eric Lax discusses his latest book, Start To Finish: Woody Allen and the Art of Moviemaking.

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Eric Lax discusses his latest book, Start To Finish: Woody Allen and the Art of Moviemaking.

The brilliant historian Harlow Giles Unger returns to discuss his latest book, First Founding Father: Richard Henry Lee and the Call to Independence.

From 1965 to 1972 Ann Moses was a writer and editor for teen idol magazine Tiger Beat. She covered The Monkees to David Cassidy. She tells her story on this week’s From The Bookshelf!

This week Kent Hartman returns to discuss his Wrecking Crew sequel, Goodnight L.A: The Rise & Fall Of Classic Rock. Then Reed Tucker talks about his great new history of comic books, Slugfest: Inside the Epic 50-Year Battle Between Marvel and DC.

Film historian Scott Eyman discusses his new book, Hank & Jim: The Fifty-Year Friendship of Henry Fonda & James Stewart.

Grammy winning music historian Anthony DeCurtis discusses Lou Reed: A Life.

Robert Bader returns to discuss his brilliant new book, Four Of The Three Musketeers: The Marx Brothers On Stage.

Historian Joshua Levine, who served as consultant on Christopher Nolan’s new film, discusses his book, Dunkirk: The History Behind The Major Motion Picture.

Crime fiction writer Marcia Clark discusses her latest novel, Snap Judgment. Also actor Barry Livingston on Jerry Lewis and My Three Sons.