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Author Interviews
Writer-director Judd Apatow talks about the funny stories -- and the not-so-funny stories -- he picked for a new collection. Universal Pictures hide caption
Gal Beckerman is the author of When They Come for Us, We'll Be Gone: The Epic Struggle to Save Soviet Jewry. Houghton Mifflin Harcourt hide caption
November 7 will bring the 21st incarnation of "Treehouse Of Horror," the Halloween tradition The Simpsons have made famous. Fox hide caption
Matt Groening Talks About What's In This Year's 'Treehouse Of Horror'
Patti Smith's new memoir, Just Kids, tells the story of her creative bond and friendship with famed photographer Robert Mapplethorpe. Getty hide caption
Tony Hawk founded the Tony Hawk Foundation in 2002 to promote and help finance public skateparks in low-income areas. Rebecca Joelson hide caption
Workers at the Cadbury chocolate factory in Bournville, England, join together chocolate Easter egg halves. Cadbury’s cream-filled eggs were first introduced in 1923. Fox Photos/Hulton Archive hide caption
Happiness is a good rhyme: Stephen Sondheim's new memoir takes its title from a lyric that captures what songwriter Paul Simon -- in a New York Times review of the book -- describes as "that feeling of joy, the little squirt of dopamine hitting the brain" when an artist is at work. Courtesy of the author hide caption
