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Emma Straub's novel, Laura Lamont's Life in Pictures, centers on small-town girl Elsa Emerson's transition into movie star Laura Lamont. Straub says her main character came to her while she was reading an obituary of real-life actress Jennifer Jones. "I was just struck by her life," Straub says.

It will be months, or years, before people in southern Louisiana fully recover from Hurricane Laura. The storm's 150 mph winds damaged or destroyed thousands of buildings when it came ashore.

By Katie Brittonhttp://stream.publicbroadcasting.net/production/mp3/wamc/local-wamc-782318.mp3Albany, NY – Author Laura Claridge speaks to WAMC's Katie…

WAMCs Alan Chartock In Conversation with Dr Laura Hansen, Associate Professor of Criminal Justice at Western New England University.

The mayor of Burlington is proclaiming Sept. 12 "Laura Kate Winterbottom Day" in memory of a Vermont woman who was abducted and killed in 2005.Mayor Miro…

Although she has released five albums since 1999, singer-songwriter Laura Veirs remains largely unknown in the United States. Critic Tom Moon believes her new CD, Year of Meteors, will change that.

Emma Straub is, according to Gothamist, "the belle of the Brooklyn indi-lit ball". Her debut story collection Other People We Married, was published in…

In the wake of the brazen heist at the Louvre in Paris this past weekend, many are saying, “real life has once again echoed fiction.” In Dan Brown’s "The Da Vinci Code," a crime unfolds in the Louvre. We spoke with Dan Brown about the recent heist at the Louvre and the relationship to his book, "The Da Vinci Code."Brown’s brand new novel is "The Secret of Secrets" and he will be our guest on the Book Show on November 4 at 3 p.m.

Popular parenting expert Dr. Laura Markham, whose latest book is Peaceful Parents, Happy Siblings, has garnered a loyal readership around the world,…

Brooks discusses Minecraft: The Island. Maureen Corrigan recommends a book about the appetites of notable women. Brown, who has cerebral palsy, imagines life inside the "Virginia State Colony."