Books

Summer's almost here, and if you're anything like Steve Kraske (that may be a good thing...or maybe not) you're searching for some great vacation reads.

Thursday on Up to Date Steve Kraske welcomes the Book Doctors for a review of some of their recent favorite reads.

Author and illustrator Maurice Sendak, whose classic children's book Where the Wild Things Are became a perennial and award-winning favorite for generations of children, died Tuesday. He was 83.

Sendak appeared on Fresh Air with Terry Gross several times over the years. In 1989, he told Terry Gross that he didn't ever write with children in mind — but that somehow what he wrote turned out to be for children nonetheless.

In her years as a journalist, author and cultural critic, her name has graced some of our most revered publications.

Monday on Up to Date, Pulitzer-Prize winner Anna Quindlen joins Steve Kraske for a discussion about her career and her most recent title … Lots of Cake, Plenty of Candles.  It's a memoir that peers into the world of marriage, friendships, faith and growing older.

Novelist John Grisham has churned out a novel a year since 1988.

But believe it or not, he still has his moments of doubt. Yes, the same John Grisham who has written mega-bestsellers that became smash movies still questions his ability to write.