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Novelist Tom Perrotta. His book Little Children a satirical take on parenthood and suburbia has been adapted into a new film starring Kate Winslet. One reviewer wrote of the book "it represents a sterling comic contribution to the growing literature of the Bad Mommy and Bad Daddy." Perrotta is also the author of the novels Joe College and Election which was made into the 1999 movie of the same name.

Work aprons, party aprons, Depression-era aprons. They're all part of The Apron Chronicles, a traveling exhibit managed by the Women's Museum in Dallas.

Steven Carter's new book, Famous Writers School: A Novel may show that anyone can write but it also shows, through the fumbling of the protagonist, that not everyone can, or should, teach.

This baker's dozen of picks for the booklovers on your list spans a range from American masters to Mexican pinups, panoramas to punk rock, cartoons to caterpillars. Why ask why? Enjoy!

Tubas, a craft contest, romance comics and a pair of Morgan Freeman gems — what better way to usher in December?

Comedian and author John Leguizamo talks about his new book, Pimps, Hos, Playa Hatas and All the Rest of My Hollywood Friends and what it's like to be a Latino in Hollywood.

Moloney recorded or produced more than 70 albums of Irish music and is credited with bringing traditional Irish music to a wider audience. He died July 27. Originally broadcast in 2006 and 2009.

Short story master Alice Munro would be justified in resting on her laurels at this point in her career — she's won Canada's Governor General's Literary Award three times, and the National Book Critics Circle Award. But in her new collection of stories, called The View from Castle Rock, Munro veers off into a fresh direction — exploring family history through fact and fiction.

Army Major Robert Schaefer's poem "Clusters" is featured in the book >Operation Homecoming, a collection of recent writings by U.S. troops. The NEA project inspired Schaefer to relay his war experiences through writing.

Michael Crichton, best-selling purveyor of the sci-fi thriller genre, writes a novel about genetic technology and its potential results. But he's not really writing about the future in Next; it's all happening now.