Killers of the Flower Moon author David Grann discusses the Osage Indian Reservation murders, stolen oil, and the early days of J. Edgar Hoover’s FBI.

MythBuster Adam Savage on becoming a maker and his book, Every Tool’s a Hammer.

John Hodgman tells me how long it will take my family to move on after I die. (“Sooner than you think.”)

Marc Maron talks about his influential podcast, WTF, and his book Waiting for the Punch. Do it up.

Director John Waters offers his advice for entitled brats and damaged students.

Jeff Guinn unmasks cult leader and mass murderer Jim Jones through interviews with the people who knew him: townspeople, his parishioners, and the “reverend’s” own family.

Ian McGuire discusses his suspenseful, sometimes shocking thriller set aboard an ice-bound whaling ship.

The Mountain Goats’ frontman wrote a novel, and it’s creepy as hell. I asked him three questions about it.

A Q&A with American Heiress author Jeffrey Toobin on the Patty Hearst kidnapping, the SLA, and the Swinging ‘70s.

Geoff Manaugh’s A Burglar’s Guide to the City will change the way you look at architecture.

A treatise by Rainn Wilson, noted bassoonist.

Before he won every decent literary award in the world, Colson Whitehead gave us The Outsider’s Guide to Gambling in Las Vegas.

Carl Hoffman’s Savage Harvest explores the mysterious disappearance of Michael Rockerfeller. Did he perish at sea, or die at the hands of cannibals?

He makes a lot of people mad. But he’s really quite pleasant, as I found while discussing his autobiography, An Appetite for Wonder.

Philipp Meyer discusses The Son—his 150-year saga of family, oil, and power—and one really gross thing he did for research.

Let’s talk about Sweet Farts. I’m guessing we’re mostly grownups here, but we are going to talk about the series of books called Sweet Farts. Sweet Farts by Raymond Bean.