Terry Gross

The comic behind the semi-autobiographical films. Sleepwalk with Me and My Girlfriend's Boyfriend has a new fictional film - which still has some personal resonance - about a improv comedy group and what happens when one member gets a job on a popular TV sketch comedy show.

Author Cathleen Schine says that living far away from an elderly parent can create feelings of guilt as well as those of relief. Her darkly comic new novel is They May Not Mean To, But They Do.

As the wife of a Navy fighter pilot, memoirist Rachel Starnes has had much of her life — including where she lives and how often she gets to live with her husband — determined by his career.