From 2013: Novelist Steven Gore has become a good friend of this show over the last couple years even as his Graham Gage and Harlan Donnally series have gained traction in the hearts and wallets of readers. In addition to talking about his new book, "A Criminal Defense," I’ll be reading a passage from it, too.

From 2013: The first time Christopher Hart was here, it was to promote "Humongous Book of Cartooning," which was exactly that. Today, he’s going to talk about his latest, "Manga for the Beginner: Midnight Monsters." Even better, he’s going to do a demonstration of exactly how to do it.

Joining me today to talk about And While We Were Here are the film’s writer and director, Kat Coiro, who worked with Bosworth on her comedy, Life Happens, and her co-star in Here, Iddo Goldberg, who you might recognize as “Ben” from the Showtime series “The Secret Diary of a Call Girl.” By the way, you’ll have to watch this movie if for no other reason than the surprise ending. I never saw it coming.

From 2013: Nick Antosca brings a cinematic storytelling style to his new short story collection, The Girlfriend Game, which is undoubtedly why I invested the time and energy to read it. The tales he tells grab you from the first page, spin you ‘round and ‘round, and sometimes don’t let go even when you come out the other side.

From 1983: On October 8, 1983, I interviewed legendary pianist Marian McPartland as a preview for an upcoming appearance she would be making in Clearwater, Florida, with her husband, Jimmy McPartland, and her old friend and frequent onstage partner, George Shearing.

From 2013: I know a lot of Mr. Media viewers and listeners might not know Buzz Burbank or even the Don & Mike Show, but it was must-hear afternoon listening for me over the years—that is, whenever the local Tampa Bay radio station put it on. The leads on the show had a sometimes ugly, on-and-off relationship with the CBS station that carried them here, so there are big gaps in my listenership, sadly.

From 2013: Did you see "Bend It Like Beckham"? Just as Bruce Springsteen promises rock 'n' roll can save your soul, I think soccer can inspire the same for a lot of young men and women. Bringing The United to life is a young director named Amin Matalqa. I first talked with Amin in 2009 when he was promoting a wonderful indie film called Captain Abu Raed. It was a slice-'o-life film made in his native Jordan and it, too, showed how an opportunity to be a better person could revolutionize someone's path.

From 2013: In his autobiography, The Kid Stays in the Picture, Evans paints a picture of himself as a guy frequently touched by luck over the course of his career. Unfortunately, good fortune was often fleeting in his experience, usually for reasons of his own making. The man who rescued Paramount Studios from the junk heap of cinematic history in the 1970s and 1980s by greenlighting Love Story, The Godfather, Chinatown, Rosemary’s Baby, Marathon Man, and Urban Cowboy lived the life of ten mortal men.

From 2013: The essence of Joe Muto’s story is that after eight years of holding his tongue—and his nose—as a Fox News employee, something happened that he could simply not abide. You don’t have to love or hate Fox News to enjoy Foxhole—it’s just a good story, well told, with insight into the most confounding major network in American television history.

From 2013: Channing Chase, my guest today, you might have recognized her for film roles in Evan Almighty with Steve Carrell or Charlie Wilson's War with Tom Hanks. She is perhaps best known to TV audiences for her role as Pete Campbell's mom on "Mad Men" or “ER,” “Life With Bonnie,” “Home Improvement,” “Family Matters,” and “Cold Case.” She is also a founder of the Pacific Resident Theatre in Venice, California.