Antoine Wilson on BookTalk
Antoine Wilson discusses his terrific novel Panorama City. In it we follow Oppen Porter, a winning but odd naif who sets out to become a man of the world.
View ArticleJunot Diaz, This is How You Lose Her
Winner of a Pulitzer Prize and a MacArthur "genius" grant Junot Diaz discusses his new short-story collection, This is How You Lose Her. talks about what it means to be American, why girls learn...
View ArticleDavid Abrams, Fobbit
David Abrams, an Iraq war veteran, talks about his comic novel Fobbit, which explores the soldiers who stay behind in the office.
View ArticleSusan Freinkel, Plastic: A Toxic Love Story
How did we get so enmeshed with plastic? Journalist Susan Freinkel investigates, and discusses what she found.
View ArticleJennifer Close, The Smart One
Jennifer Close joins us to talk about sibling rivalry, family love and frustration, and moving home with Mom and Dad. They're all covered in her new novel, The Smart One.
View ArticleAllison Amend, A Nearly Perfect Copy
A talented artist toys with forgery; a grieving mother considers cloning her lost son. What is authentic and what is not? The terrific novel A Nearly Perfect Copy explores this theme.
View ArticleEvelyn Resh, Women, Sex, Power & Pleasure
Sexuality counselor Evelyn Resh discusses how we can have more pleasure in our sex lives and our lives in general.
View ArticleNathan Englander, What We Talk About When We Talk About Anne Frank
Nathan Englander is deeply intelligent, thoughtful and candid in this interview about his latest short story collection. In the title story, two Jewish couples discuss who would hide them in the case...
View ArticleBrian Stelter, Top of the Morning
New York Times media reporter Brian Stelter talks morning TV, where news coverage is headed, and why he loves Twitter.
View ArticleBrian Kimberling, Snapper
“In Indiana, material just walks up to me in the street and starts talking.” Hear Brian Kimberling talk about the richness of his home state, why people love birdwatching, and more.
View ArticleNadeem Aslam, The Blind Man's Garden
Two foster brothers leave Pakistan to help the injured in Afghanistan just after 9/11, in Aslam's exquisite new novel.
View ArticleJonathan Schuppe, A Chance to Win
A drug dealer, shot and paralyzed, decides to turn his life around by coaching a Little League team in inner city Newark, NJ. A Pulitzer-Prize winning reporter tells the gripping, heartbreaking,...
View ArticleA.M. Homes, May We Be Forgiven
No one is as insightful and incisive as A.M. Homes when it comes to human relationships. Listen in as she talks about her newest novel.
View ArticleLindy DeKoven, Primetime Princess
First beach read of the summer! The author is a former top exec at NBC-TV, and she talks with Cary about what goes on behind the scenes in the world of entertainment.
View ArticleLiz Rosenberg, The Laws of Gravity
What would -- and wouldn't -- you do for family? Rosenberg explores that and more in this gripping novel.
View ArticleAlexandra Horowitz, Eleven Walks with Expert Eyes
"You don't have to do any special flexing of a muscle to pay attention, you just have to look at something in a new way," says Alexandra Horowitz, about her book On Looking: Eleven Walks with Expert...
View ArticleStephen Grosz, The Examined Life
A psychoanalyst takes us through 31 vignettes that read like the finest fiction, to discover why we do the things we do.
View ArticleMary Simses, The Irresistible Blueberry Bakeshop & Cafe
A Manhattan lawyer travels to Maine to fulfill her grandmother's dying wish. What she finds there changes her life dramatically.
View ArticleLea Carpenter, Eleven Days
A single mother awaits word on her Navy SEAL son, missing in action, in this beautiful debut novel.
View ArticleIvy Pochoda, Visitation Street
Summer in Red Hook, Brooklyn, and two teen girls go missing. Dennis Lehane picked this riveting book for his imprint.
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