This week, Andrew McCarthy’s movie roles in “Pretty in Pink,” “St. Elmo’s Fire,” “Weekend at Bernie’s,” and “Less Than Zero” made him a star. He’s considered one of the so-called “Brat Pack” – which has come to represent both a genre of film and an era of pop culture. He writes about that decade of his life in “Brat: An ’80s Story.”
This week on The Book Show, novelist and playwright Ayad Akhtar. Akhtar is the winner of the Pulitzer Prize for Drama. His latest work...
What does hope look like? How do we find and hold onto it in the midst of personal turmoil, communal suffering, global chaos and...
Pulitzer Prize-winning author Paul Harding’s new novel “This Other Eden” is inspired by the true story of Malaga Island, an isolated island off the...