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Farah Pahlavi is the widow of the Shah of Iran, whose campaign to modernize his country ended when he was overthrown in 1979 by Khomeini’s opposition. The Pahlavis have been in exile ever since. She’s here to look back on her eventful life and her memoir, An Enduring Love: My Life with the Shah. According to Laura Shapiro, the 1950s eating revolution in the United States was the result of a war-induced overcapacity for food production and preservation. The food industry had to figure out how to get American housewives to use more canned and frozen food. Shapiro is the author of Something from the Oven: Reinventing Dinner in 1950s America. And Nicholson Baker discusses his controversial new novella, Checkpoint, in which one main character is fixated on assassinating President Bush.