Elizabeth Gilbert, the woman who launched a thousand book clubs with her 2006 best-seller “Eat, Pray, Love,” is back with a new novel. “The Signature of All Things” takes us another tour, of sorts, but this one is of high-society in the 1800s, where merchants and scientists throw elegant balls – like the one in this excerpt. This fete is based in part on a real party of the era, as observed by the poet John Keats.
On the "Mortified" podcast, brave adults read aloud the most embarrassing moments from their childhood journals. The show's inspired a new book called "My Mortified Life.” Listen to this favorite from the show, perfect for Halloween, about a middle school girl who desperately wanted to be a vampire in the 1990s.
David Litt penned some of former President Obama's most memorable speeches, including his comic turns at White House Correspondents' Dinners. The stories behind those speeches are the stuff of his new memoir, "Thanks, Obama: My Hopey, Changey White House Years." Listen as he shares a tale that didn't make it into the book… maybe because it involves him stealing.