Film director and producer David DeCoteau talks to Barry about his career in low budget films.

Loren Collins reveals how rumors are started as well as the types of rhetorical techniques and logical fallacies often found in misleading or outright false claims in Bullspotting.

Chance Williams with FreePress talks about how our media system is failing. Then, BikeSnobNYC (aka Eben Weiss) takes on the trials and triumphs of bike commuting with snark, humor, and enthusiasm in The Enlightened Cyclist.

In Bay and Her Boys, conservative political analyst, Bay Buchanan takes the reader on a candid trip into the world of single working motherhood. Then liberal radio host and author, Bill Press talks bout The Obama Hate Machine and how the Right has taken rhetoric to slanderous new levelsin attacking president.

In this definitive biography, Tough Without a Gun, Stefan Kanfer answers why Humphrey Bogart captures our imagination, along the way illuminating the private man he was and shining the spotlight on some of the greatest performances ever captured on celluloid.

Wired contributing editor Frank Rose introduces us to the people who are reshaping media for a two-way world, whose ideas are changing how we play, how we chill, and even how we think in The Art of Immersion.

Based on research of the news watchdog organization Media Matters for America, David Brock and Ari Rabin-Havt show how Fox News, under its president Roger Ailes, changed from a right-leaning news network into a partisan advocate for the Republican Party in The FOX Effect.

Chris Gethard is an actor, comedian, and writer as well as the star and creator of The Chris Gethard Show; his new book is A Bad Idea I’m About to Do.

Why has confidence in the press declined so dramatically over the past 40 years? Jonathan Ladd‘s book, Why Americans Hate the Media and How it Matters examines waning public trust in the Fourth Estate.

The Gothic tradition continues to excite the popular imagination and  John C. Tibbetts presents interviews and conversations with prominent folks as they trace the mode across three centuries in The Gothic Imagination.