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On Tuesday evening in New York City, the finalists for the National Book Award gathered on the eve of the ceremony to read from their work. NPR was there to capture the celebration.

It was Chicago's cold winters that gave birth to the futures market, author Emily Lambert says. In the beginning, commodities trading was all about hedging bets against bad weather, spoilage — or an accidental dump in the river.

Writer Mira Bartok's memoir, The Memory Palace, is in part about the car accident that left her with traumatic brain injury and about her relationship with her schizophrenic mother. She explains how her brain injury helped her understand — and reconnect with — her mother.

In the 1930s, artist Lynd Ward published a series of novels in stark woodcuts — communicating narratives on a deep, pre-verbal level. Art Spiegelman has compiled Ward's work into a multivolume collection that showcases his striking, unfussy compositions.

In his new biography of the Revolutionary firebrand Patrick Henry, Harlow Giles Unger explores the life of America's greatest orator and the story behind his famous cry, "Give me liberty, or give me death!"

Young adult author David Levithan covers adult territory in his new novel, a collection of short definitions for terms throughout a relationship. In little bursts, he helps the reader to understand the bigger picture of a love affair.

Two veteran observers of American politics, a journalist and a historian, argue that former president Trump is not responsible for the GOP of our day but, instead, exploited it as he found it.

Martin is best known for his comedy, but he's also a writer, a Grammy-winning bluegrass artist and a serious art collector. In his new novel, An Object of Beauty, Martin tells the story of an ambitious woman navigating her way up — and out of — the New York City art world.

Amy Chua, a professor of law at Yale, has written her first memoir about raising children the "Chinese way" — with strict rules and expectations. Maureen Corrigan predicts the book will be "a book club and parenting blog phenomenon."

In her new, stunning visual biography, Radioactive: Marie & Pierre Curie, A Tale of Love and Fallout, Lauren Redniss describes (and draws) the marriage and discoveries of the famous scientific couple.