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Maryn McKenna is the author of two books on epidemics, and she always keeps a face-mask nearby. It's no wonder her nickname is "Scary Disease Girl." As a…

What if your brother was accused of murdering 60 people? What would you do? That's the problem facing the main character of Christopher Rice's latest…

Cop drives into Vegas, hunting down his ex-wife, who's now married to a Vietnamese crime boss. New movie? Nope, it's the plot for Vu Tran's novel. The…

What happens when one of the country's bestselling authors calls up a struggling writer and says, "Hey... want to co-write a book with me?" That's what…

During the 1960s, Judith Nies was a speech writer building her career on Capitol Hill. Then one day, her husband slapped an FBI file on the table... with…

Police bundle a 28 year old woman into a van as the crowd shouts and jeers. She's a political prisoner, and they're driving her to her execution. So…

Junot Diaz burst onto the literary scene when he was 28, a young Dominican who wrote about growing up poor and fatherless in New Jersey. But when it came…

How do you imagine the modern woman? Does she stuff her bra with tennis balls? Does she drink too much at class reunions, or steal animals from the zoo?…

Author Annette McGivney discusses the changing landscape in the West after years of drought. Her new book "Resurrection: Glen Canyon and a New Vision for…