24. Apollo 13. Splash. Even if you don’t know who Brian Grazer is, you certainly know his work. Here he shares his secret for success.

Many do. But Ian Whitelaw’s The History of Fly-Fishing in Fifty Flies is a brilliant example of how its mystique transcends the actual sport.

Jon Ronson on social media and the Age of Shame.

Paul Fischer’s guide to the essential cinema of North Korea’s super-producer, Kim Jong-Il.

The Great Leader and the Fighter Pilot author Blaine Harden’s primer on the essential, terrifying nuttiness of the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea.

Viv Albertine dishes on the three themes of her killer memoir: Clothes, Music, and Boys.

Peter Pomerantsev — author of Nothing Is True and Everything Is Possible: The Surreal Heart of the New Russia — saw it all coming.

DEVO’s Mark Mothersbaugh, delivering observations regarding the condition of man in the world these days.

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?

Badluck Way author Bryce Andrews on life as rancher and settles the debate between Levi’s and Wranglers.

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.

The first American to summit Mt. Everest shares his memories of the expedition on the eve of its 50th anniversary. Includes yeti content.

Here talks about his collections of skulls and “completely odorless” animal scat, among other things.

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.

Don’t be stupid. It’s Bigfoot.