From left, Leslie Epstein's uncle and father, Julius and Philip Epstein, writers of the 1942 film "Casablanca." (Courtesy Leslie Epstein) After pausing to let me finish chuckling, he continues ...

Leslie Epstein spoke with The Harvard Crimson about his latest project, "Hill of Beans" a novel situated in Epstein's own familial history of 1940s Hollywood.

Content warning: This article mentions the Holocaust, anti-Semitism and Nazism. Brookline Booksmith held an event with author and Boston University Creative Writing Director Leslie Epstein and author ...

More than just a hill of beans: ... three little people doesn't add up to a hill of beans in this crazy world," Humphrey Bogart famously said in the movie Casablanca.