Actors and backstage personnel alike recall their experiences and their peers on Broadway in this unique book. Such luminaries as Carol Channing, Gwen Verdon, Patricia Neal, Richard Kiley share their memories in a book that spans more than six decades of Broadway history.

Just when you thought that everything that could possibly be written about Shakespeare has already been written, along comes "Shakespeare: The Invention of the Human." Author and academic Harold Bloom provides a range of new insights into the Bard's writing, positing that Shakespeare had a much more profound influence on the structure of society that he has been given credit for. (By the way, when was the last time a book of literary criticism was a Book-of-the-Month Club selection? Hmmmm ….)