Five disturbing nightmares, ranging from the eerie to the erotic, guaranteed to keep you awake at night.

Books and Beyond immerses viewers in stimulating conversations and the exchange of ideas with recently published authors. Highlights include a talk with cartoonist and author Aline Crumb (who's married to the famous comic underground artist, R. Crumb), as well as a discussion with New Yorker author D. T. Max about the late author David Foster Wallace. Whether the topic is lighthearted or weighty, the common denominator is this: Books & Beyond plays to the sophisticated, knowledgeable 50+ viewer who's a lover of all things literary.

Actress Jane Kaczmarek hosts this comprehensive history of American fiction from 1650 to the present day, which includes profiles of some of the country's greatest authors. Illuminating the lives of writers such as Ernest Hemingway, John Steinbeck, Kurt Vonnegut, Edgar Allan Poe, Mark Twain, Toni Morrison and others, the program examines the way each developed a unique voice that reflects the complex fabric of America.

Three Irwin Shaw short stories are dramatized. In "The Girls in Their Summer Dresses" a young married couple stop for a drink on a Sunday morning in Manhattan, and the conversation turns to the husband's fidelity. "The Monument" centers on the conflict between a popular bartender with a following in an upscale Irish bar in 1938 Manhattan and its owner, who is determined to introduce a more economical whiskey in the establishment over the barkeep's objections. In "The Man Who Married a French Wife" the influential American husband of a French woman is asked by her former lover, a former resistance fighter, to help him escape the country.

Three Irwin Shaw short stories are dramatized. In "The Girls in Their Summer Dresses" a young married couple stop for a drink on a Sunday morning in Manhattan, and the conversation turns to the husband's fidelity. "The Monument" centers on the conflict between a popular bartender with a following in an upscale Irish bar in 1938 Manhattan and its owner, who is determined to introduce a more economical whiskey in the establishment over the barkeep's objections. In "The Man Who Married a French Wife" the influential American husband of a French woman is asked by her former lover, a former resistance fighter, to help him escape the country.

Three tales of the line between love and hate, based on short stories by renowned writers: a determined man swears off women, a cunning wife plots to win back her cheating spouse, and a scorned individual succumbs to frightful revenge.

STONES AND THEIR WHISPERS OF OLD STORIES unfolds as a dialogue between ancient stories from the Transylvanian and Valais mountains, intertwined with contemporary movement. Through the lens of dance, the environment becomes both stage and symbol, where whispers of forgotten stories are etched into the fabric of the earth. With a quiet, observant gaze, the film invites reflection on the ephemeral and enduring, past and present, myth and memory. 　　“Nothing more natural for David Drăgan and Noah Kohlbrenne’s film than the connections it makes between a magical, irrational understanding of life, subject to mysticism and nature, and choreography, that is, organized movement which, before producing aesthetic pleasure, produces spatial knowledge. For STONES AND THEIR OLD WHISPERED STORIES, man – the human body – is an infinitesimal unit of measurement. Man measures little visually, in relation to the vastness of the mountainous landscapes of Transylvania and Valais, upon which the camera gaze with adoration and fear, but also within the superstitions recounted by various interviewees, speaking powerlessness in the face of the incomprehensible. The film is a beautiful reminder that man should not be the measure of the world, but take measure of it.” (Călin Boto)

Tom Beauchurch , a successful New England lawyer, takes his wife Ginette to Paris for a second honeymoon. It is a Paris in the throes of the Algerian crisis; a crisis which soon threatens the very foundations of their marriage. A New York bartender refuses to lower his standards even when his boss threatens to sack him. Michael Loomis runs into trouble when he confesses to his beautiful young wife that he can't help eyeing the girls in their summer dresses ...