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including the novels White Teeth and On Beauty. Her new book, The Fraud, is a historical novel, but its themes of gender inequality, class, the literary life, and the enduring damages of slavery are very connected to the present.

She says she'd been prejudiced against historical novels, but she's just written one set in Victorian England. It's called The Fraud.

Her new novel, The Fraud, is centered around an actual trial that happened in real life in 1873 in London.

My guest, Sadie Smith, writes novels and essays about contemporary life and art. She says she'd been prejudiced against historical novels, but she's just written one set in Victorian England. It's called The Fraud.

If you're just joining us, my guest is writer Zadie Smith. Her new novel is called The Fraud.

Her new novel, The Fraud, is centered around an actual trial in 1873 in London of a man who claimed to be Roger Tichburn, the heir to the Tichburn estate and the title of baron.

His new book is an attempt to change that. It's called It Doesn't Have to Hurt.

If you're just joining us, my guest is Dr. Sanjay Gupta, CNN's chief medical correspondent and author of the new book, It Doesn't Have to Hurt.

His new book about pain is called It Doesn't Have to Hurt.

Our guest will be neurosurgeon Dr. Sanjay Gupta, CNN's chief medical correspondent. His new book is called It Doesn't Have to Hurt.

And when I read the novel by John O'Brien I felt even more.

And when I read the novel by John O'Brien, I felt even more.

On the season finale of Books We've Loved, we're revisiting Terry McMillan's Waiting to Exhale.

We are revisiting Terry McMillan's Waiting to Exhale with Brittany Luce from It's Been a Minute.

Well, I just finished another book, The Future of Truth, which will be released next spring, but in its German original.

I just finished another book, The Future of Truth, which will be released next spring, but it always takes until it's being translated.

One of sort of the foundational texts for me for this book is a really small little book by a rabbi philosopher named Abraham Joshua Heschel. It's a book called The Sabbath.

One of sort of the foundational texts for me for this book is a really small little book by a rabbi philosopher named Abraham Joshua Heschel. It's a book called The Sabbath. And it's just this beautiful little sort of treatise on the value of making time.

including the novels White Teeth and On Beauty. Her new book, The Fraud, is a historical novel...

Her other novels include On Beauty and Swing Time.

Her other novels include On Beauty and Swing Time.

Her other novels include On Beauty and Swing Time.

Lee Bardugo is well known for her YA books in The Shadow and Bone and Six of Crows series as well as her adult books Ninth House and Hellbent.

in Ninth House and Hellbent there are very real secret societies at Yale that to one degree wield economic, social, political influence.

The first two books came out before The Familiar - it's I guess I'm gonna call it the Ninth House series - there are two of them so far, Ninth House and Hellbent.

as well as her adult books Ninth House and Hellbent.

9th House was officially your first book for adults, not YA.

With 9th House and Hellbent and the familiar, the goals of my characters are much more like my own goals in this life.

In my guest Michael Schumann's book, Oscar Wars, A History of Hollywood in Gold, Sweat, and Tears, he says quote, "The Oscars have become a conflict zone for issues of race, gender, and representation. High-profile signifiers of whose stories get told and whose don't."

If you're just joining us, my guest is Michael Schulman, author of the book Oscar Wars, which comes out this week in paperback.

author of the book Oscar Wars, a history of Hollywood in gold, sweat, and tears.

Michael Schulman's book, Oscar Wars, a history of Hollywood and gold sweat and tears comes out in paperback this week.

author of the book Oscar Wars. It's about the ongoing tensions over race, gender and representation, and earlier conflicts dating back to the founding of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences.

Her latest thriller, Code It Justice, is the third installment in a series that centers on Avery Keene, a former Supreme Court clerk turned corporate investigator who steps into the world of AI to examine a system designed to revolutionize veteran health care.

Let's get into Coded Justice because it dives into the world of AI. It's the third, as we said, in the series that really explores - really, after going through them, it feels like you're exploring this theme of trust or the lack of it in our institution.

Our guest today is Stacey Abrams. She's written a new novel called Coded Justice.

Stacey Abrams' new thriller is called Coded Justice.

Her latest thriller, Code It Justice, is the third installment in a series that centers on Avery Keene.

Let's get into Code It Justice because it dives into the world of AI. It's the third, as we said in the series, that really explores, really, after going through them, it feels like you're exploring this theme of trust or the lack of it in our institution.

We'll continue our conversation after a short break. ... her latest novel called Coded Justice, the third in her Avery Keene legal thriller series.

Stacey Abrams' new book is called Coded Justice.

A journey Erivo also explores in her new memoir, Simply More. The book traces how she learned to shed other people's definitions of her as a woman, as a Black artist, and as someone who was sometimes told she was too much.

If you're just joining us, I'm talking with Cynthia Erivo. She stars as Elphaba in Wicked for Good, and she's written a new memoir called Simply More.

Cynthia Erivo's memoir is titled Simply More.

In Erivo's new memoir, Simply More, she explores similar themes, shedding other people's definitions of who she should be as a woman and an artist.

the only thing that really helped me was, like, there was a book in the house called Growing Up Divorced.

there was a book in the house called Growing Up Divorced.

Historian Judith Geisberg's arresting book, also called Last Seen, closely reads ten of those ads, giving readers a deeper sense of the lived experience of slavery and its aftermath.

And book critic Maureen Corrigan reviews Last Seen, a book about newlyfreed Black Americans in the 1860s who took out ads to find lost family members.

In her new book, Last Seen, historian Judith Giesberg tells us about the stories of people who placed those ads.

Giesberg's new book, called Last Seen, is her more detailed response to the question, reading ads placed in search of lost children, mothers, wives, siblings, and even comrades who served in the United States Colored Troops during the Civil War.

Giesberg tells us the cruel reality was that the success rate of these advertisements may have been as low as 2%.

Giesberg's new book, called Last Seen, is her more detailed response to the question.

While making the film and writing his new memoir, We Survived the Night, NoiseCat learned why, minutes after his father was born, he was abandoned in a boarding school trash incinerator room.

Now Julian Brave Noisecat has written a new book called We Survived the Night. It's part memoir, part Indigenous history, and part coyote stories.

While I wrote my first book, We Survived the Night.

Julian Brave Noisecat's new book is called We Survived the Night.

Now, Julian Brave Noyscat has written a new book called We Survived the Night. It's part memoir, part Indigenous history, and part coyote stories.

I moved in with my dad, actually, and lived with him for two years while we worked on Sugarcane and while I wrote my first book, We Survived the Night.

my new book is called We Survive the Night.

Mitch Albom, whose book Tuesdays with Maury became a bestselling memoir and an Emmywinning film, discusses his new novel, Twice.

His latest novel, Twice, is about a man who discovers he can relive any moment but must accept the consequences of reliving it.

Is the American dream a scam? Alligator Tears, a new memoir by Edgar Gomez, tackles that question.

Alligator Tears, a new memoir by Edgar Gomez tackles that question.

Living through the early years of the AIDS epidemic ... are now collected in his new book, The Very Heart of It, New York Diaries 1983-1994.

Novelist and nonfiction writer Thomas Mallon has been keeping diaries for most of his life. They've just been acquired by the Library of Congress. A collection of his diary entries for the years 1983 to 94 has just been published under the title The Very Heart of It.

Maureen Corrigan will review Thomas Mallon's new book, collecting his journals from 1983 to 94, which includes when he came out and the years of the AIDS crisis decimated the gay community.

Her novel, The Immortal King Rao, was nominated for a Pulitzer Prize.

Her novel, The Immortal King Rao, was nominated for a Pulitzer Prize.

David Bianculli ... the author of Dangerously Funny, the uncensored story of the Smothers Brothers comedy hour.

When Terry conducted with me in 2009 when my book about the Smothers Brothers had just been published.

We listen back to my conversation with Terry Gross about my book Dangerously Funny the uncensored story of the Smothers Brothers Comedy Hour.