In her debut novel, "Pick a Color," Souvankham Thammavongsa details the day in the life of both a nail salon and its owner. NPR's Scott Simon talks with her about it.

Though he’s perhaps best known as the author of the dystopian “Fahrenheit 451,” Bradbury also left his mark on the horror world. His story, about two 13-year-old boys who encounter an eerie traveling ...

In ‘When Everyone Knows That Everyone Knows...,’ the best-selling cognitive scientist writes about an interesting subject but gets sidetracked by hobbyhorses ...

Diaries can be the most revealing records of who we are. One compulsive diarist introduces the intimate reflections of Audre ...