Calvin Trillin is America’s funniest food writer. He is passionate about good cooking—not haute cuisine but genuine good food. Learn More

On January 1, 1999, All Things Considered aired the first in a series of richly layered stories that trace the soundtrack of the 20th century. Learn More

Weaving the magical with the mundane, New Yorker writer Adam Gopnik offers a wholly delightful, often hilarious look at what it was to be an American family man in Paris at the end of the twentieth century. Learn More

The complete soundtrack from the phenomenally popular PBS series. Learn More

Picasso's War sheds light on the conflict that was an ominous prelude to WWII and delivers an unforgettable portrait of a genius whose visionary statement about horror and terrible wounds of war still resonates today. Learn More

Highlights the golden age of Yiddish-American broadcasting in the 1930s to '50s. This collection is an unprecedented intimate snapshot of American Jewish life during the 1930s and '40s. Includes broadcasts by Eli Wallach, Carl Reiner, and Isaiah Sheffer. Learn More

Part candy porn, part candy polemic, part social history, part confession, Candyfreak explores the role candy plays in our lives as both source of pleasure and escape from pain. Learn More

The follow up to Lost & Found Sound, featuring a historic as well as intimate soundscape: letters from a soldier in the foxholes of Vietnam, Mohawk iron workers at the World Trade Center, a 1977 home recording made by Francis Ford Coppola and his five-year old daughter Sofia, and much more. Learn More

Conducted by Fresh Air host Terry Gross in her signature, award-winning style, this is collection of revealing interviews with writers will captivate and inspire literary minds everywhere. Learn More

Going well beyond a critical discussion of a single television program, this book will use The Simpsons as a window on the culture at large to deliver first-hand reportage of the defining events and trends of our accelerated, confounding era. Learn More

Terry Gross interviews 17 stars of film, television, and theater. Learn More

This original recording—his first—features Trillin at his most uproarious, reading from his own articles and books. Learn More

Terry Gross interviews 11 stage and screen personalities. Learn More

A loving look back at the way baseball used to be, and the legends who played the game, told in their own voices. Learn More

See You on the Radio gathers together some of the best of Osgood’s work. Learn More

Take a journey across the American soundscape—from the bayous to the beltways, from crossroads to crosstown, from coast to coast, embracing a wide swath of our musical culture and exploring the boundaries where genres meet and overlap. Learn More

Just in time for the holidays: a collection of beloved Christmas stories and writings that every family will cherish. Learn More

The brilliantly inventive novelist Ali Smith melds fiction and essay into a magical hybrid form, a song of praise to the power of story in our lives. Learn More

The dramatic, never-before-told story of how a forbidden book in the Soviet Union became a secret CIA weapon in the ideological battle between East and West. Learn More