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Books & Authors

Summary: Books and Authors is the podcast that brings you intelligent, candid conversations with today's leading authors We feature fiction and nonfiction.

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 Ivy Pochoda, Visitation Street | File Type: audio/mpeg | Duration: 00:12:32

Summer in Red Hook, Brooklyn, and two teen girls go missing. Dennis Lehane picked this riveting book for his imprint.

 Lea Carpenter, Eleven Days | File Type: audio/mpeg | Duration: 00:15:49

A single mother awaits word on her Navy SEAL son, missing in action, in this beautiful debut novel.

 Mary Simses, The Irresistible Blueberry Bakeshop & Cafe | File Type: audio/mpeg | Duration: 00:16:11

A Manhattan lawyer travels to Maine to fulfill her grandmother's dying wish. What she finds there changes her life dramatically.

 Stephen Grosz, The Examined Life | File Type: audio/mpeg | Duration: 00:18:17

A psychoanalyst takes us through 31 vignettes that read like the finest fiction, to discover why we do the things we do.

 Alexandra Horowitz, Eleven Walks with Expert Eyes | File Type: audio/mpeg | Duration: 00:18:36

"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 Eyes. I talk about observations and gaining new perspectives with the author of Inside of a Dog, here.

 Liz Rosenberg, The Laws of Gravity | File Type: audio/mpeg | Duration: 00:18:26

What would -- and wouldn't -- you do for family? Rosenberg explores that and more in this gripping novel.

 Lindy DeKoven, Primetime Princess | File Type: audio/mpeg | Duration: 00:16:39

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.

 A.M. Homes, May We Be Forgiven | File Type: audio/mpeg | Duration: 00:12:09

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.

 Jonathan Schuppe, A Chance to Win | File Type: audio/mpeg | Duration: 00:19:33

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, hopeful story.

 Nadeem Aslam, The Blind Man's Garden | File Type: audio/mpeg | Duration: 00:19:01

Two foster brothers leave Pakistan to help the injured in Afghanistan just after 9/11, in Aslam's exquisite new novel.

 Brian Kimberling, Snapper | File Type: audio/mpeg | Duration: 00:10:54

“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.

 Brian Stelter, Top of the Morning | File Type: audio/mpeg | Duration: 00:18:28

New York Times media reporter Brian Stelter talks morning TV, where news coverage is headed, and why he loves Twitter.

 Nathan Englander, What We Talk About When We Talk About Anne Frank | File Type: audio/mpeg | Duration: 00:19:28

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 of a second holocaust.

 Evelyn Resh, Women, Sex, Power & Pleasure | File Type: audio/mpeg | Duration: 00:14:53

Sexuality counselor Evelyn Resh discusses how we can have more pleasure in our sex lives and our lives in general.

 Allison Amend, A Nearly Perfect Copy | File Type: audio/mpeg | Duration: 00:18:40

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.

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