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7 Books You Should Be Reading This November

From political memoirs to the secret history of gin

The Best Movies, TV, Books and Music for November

Including Werner Herzog musing on meteorites, two next-gen gaming consoles and “Ready Player Two”

Make Italy’s Greatest Comfort Soup to Ease the Hell of Election Week

NYC chef Donna Lennard shares her take on the sumptuous pappa al pomodoro

What Makes a Man Fall in Love With a Car?

Matt Hranek's new book tells the story behind Kevin Costner's Mustang, Shaq's International truck and more

The Strange Afterlives of Literary Ghosts

When literary history ventures into the paranormal

Pete Thompson Captured the Greatest Decade in Skateboarding History

His new book is an intimate, gritty and ultimately stunning look into the early life of skateboarding on the East Coast

One Writer’s Quest to Figure Out Why America Is So Haunted

Colin Dickey's wants to show that the scariest stories about the uncanny are the nonfiction ones

A Chat With Helen Macdonald About Her New Book, “Vesper Flights”

Macdonald talks action movies, nature writing and book covers from her home in rural England

What John Steinbeck Got Right — And Wrong — About America 50 Years Ago

A talk with the Nobel Prize winner's biographer about the writer's 1960 drive across the country

How Snoopy, Charlie Brown and the Peanuts Gang Became Menswear Icons

From vintage sweatshirts to four-figure watches, Charles Schulz's creations have serious style

You Might Not Know Peter Mendelsund, But You Probably Own a Piece of His Art

He's responsible for some of the most iconic book covers in recent history, but he's much more than just a designer

Mark Gonzales, The Most Influential Skateboarder of All-Time, Gets His Due

InsideHook talks with Mark Gonzales about a new book that looks at his entire career