Drawing on more than twenty years of interviews, anecdotes, and personal experiences, "Uninvited: Confessions of a Hollywood Party Crasher" recounts the unique journey of a former Los Angeles Times reporter who, struggling with the collapse of his industry and personal tragedies, falls in with a group of intrepid gatecrashers who routinely pierce Tinseltown's celebrity party circuit.

Music month at Book Soup continues with Michael Koppy discussing his book on songwriting, "Music and Words Into the Future: A Songwriting Treatise and Manifesto." If you've ever scrunched up your nose at a set of bad lyrics or rolled your eyes when *that song* gets played over and over again despite its inane nonsense chorus, you'll want to listen to this savage take-down of popular songwriting and call for songs to rise to greater heights.

Ingrid Newkirk visits Book Soup to discuss her book about animal science and what we're learning about our fellow earth-dwellers. In "Animalkind," myths about the animal kingdom are debunked and facts are shared about the way animals live. For readers interested in the ethics of relationships between humans and animals, you won't want to miss this discussion.

Join Chris Dennis in conversation with Katya Apekina about his new short story collection, "Here Is What You Do: Stories."

If you're a Star Trek fan, you'll want to listen to Michael Seth Starr discuss his new biography, "Shatner." Chronicling the career and life of William Shatner, the first Star Trek captain, this book talk promises to boldly go a long way toward a comprehensive view of the man in the captain's chair.

For readers interested in behind-the-scenes stories of TV and the Hollywood comedy scene, you'll want to go to Book Soup to listen to Howard Storm talk about his life as a comedian and television director.

Book Soup hosts Stephen Tapert for a discussion of his book about women who have won Academy Awards.

In 2012, Sarah Ruhl was a distinguished author and playwright, twice a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize. Max Ritvo, a student in her playwriting class at Yale University, was an exuberant, opinionated, and highly gifted poet. He was also in remission from pediatric cancer. Over the next four years--in which Ritvo's illness returned and his health declined, even as his productivity bloomed--the two exchanged letters that spark with urgency, humor, and the desire for connection.