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and more powerful computers. We'll talk with brain surgeon Theodore H. Schwartz, author of the new book, Gray Matter.

He knows best the courtroom drama with a new eightpart adaptation of presumed innocent ... Bill Camp who just costarred in Kelly's adaptation of Tom Wolfe's A Man in Full.

In his memoir, Places and Names, he wrote about what was going on in his mind during the battle when his men took a lot of lives while losing members of their own platoon.

Elliott Ackerman is a former Marine ... his latest memoir is titled Places and Names and his latest novel is titled Halcyon.

I had read this book called Beautiful Boy.

The book is by David Sheff and his son.

The article is now published as a book under the title On Grief.

It sounds from your memoir like it was a pretty spontaneous, a pretty spontaneous move on your part.

And today we're going to listen to my interview with him, recorded when his book, titled Tokyo Vice, was released.

Jake Adelstein recorded in 2009 when his memoir Tokyo Vice was released.

We spoke in 2009 when his memoir Tokyo Vice was first released.

He wrote a book called My Prison Without Bars.

He'd published a book titled My Prison Without Bars, a memoir in which he finally admitted he'd bet on baseball games and pleaded for an end to his exile.

Anne Applebaum is the author of several books including Gulag, A History, which won the Pulitzer Prize,

Coming up, our book critic Maureen Corrigan reviews Memorial Days, the new memoir from Pulitzer Prize-winning novelist Geraldine Brooks about the sudden loss of her husband.

Geraldine Brooks ... Brooks' new memoir, Memorial Days, recalls their long marriage and the aftermath of its sudden end.

Memorial Days is a beautifully modulated cry in the wilderness, an unsentimental contribution to the ever-growing pile of secular literature about grief ...

He's a producer on the Apple TV Plus series, The Morning Show, which is inspired by his first book, Top of the Morning.

Maureen Corrigan reviews the new novel The Loneliness of Sonia and Sunny by Kiran Desai which has just been shortlisted for the Booker Prize.

It took Kiran Desai nearly 20 years to write her new novel The Loneliness of Sonia and Sunny I mean this as a sincere tribute when I say I'm amazed it only took her that long Desai's near 700 page novel is about exile and displacement not only from one's home country family and culture but also from one's own sense of self.

The multistranded plot roams from locales in India and the US Delhi Goa Vermont Brooklyn with side trips to Italy and Mexico this is a novel of ideas as well as at its most elemental a tangled love story.

Sonia is a depressed college student in Vermont ... the novel opens in the late 1990s Sonia is a depressed college student in Vermont who hasn't been back to India in two years.

The loneliness of Sonia and Sonny Desai has come close to achieving that ideal this is a spectacular novel nearly as abundant as life itself to savor ruminate over and yes even reread.

The making of Born to Run is the subject of the new book, Tonight in Jungleland.

Peter Carlin, welcome to Fresh Air. I really enjoyed the book.

My guest is Peter Ames Carlin, author of the new book Tonight in Jungle Land, The Making of Born to Run.

Peter Ames Carlin is the author of the new book Tonight in Jungle Land, The Making of Born to Run.

His new memoir, The Uncool, is about that period of his life and more, including his adventures and misadventures, writing about musicians like Greg Allman, Chris Christopherson, Jimmy Page, and David Bowie.

We need to take another break here so let me reintroduce you my guest is Cameron Crowe his new memoir is called Uncool and it follows roughly the same period of time as his movie Almost Famous.

His new memoir The Uncool is based on the same period of his life as his film Almost Famous which he wrote and directed and won an Oscar for best screenplay.

It's by Ann Packer and it's called Some Bright Nowhere.

Packer's best-known novel, The Dive from Clausen's Pier, was published in 2002.

Can I ask you a question? How mad are you?

Some Bright Nowhere is about the things we can't say and don't know about each other, as well as the collateral damage that a terminal disease can inflict on even the best of relationships.

In your memoir, It's What I Do, you write, When I return home and rationally consider the risks, the choices are difficult. But when I'm doing my work, I'm alive. Correct.

How did one transfer the body of a friend out of a country we all snuck into illegally when there were no functioning embassies, no police, no diplomats, and the only open border accessible from northern Iraq was Iran? It seemed so obvious, but I didn't know that war meant death, that journalists might also get killed in the war.

Packer's best-known novel, The Dive From Clausen's Pier, was published in 2002. It told the story of a young woman who'd been thinking of breaking up with her fianc, but then feels obligated to stay after he's paralyzed in a diving accident.

This message comes from Penguin Random House ... Everything Is Tuberculosis. Best-selling author John Green tells the story of a young TB patient in Sierra Leone and systems of injustice fueling the world's deadliest infectious disease.

His best-selling 2017 novel, Turtles All the Way Down, has been adapted into a new film.

Terry Gross spoke with John Green in 2017 when Turtles All the Way Down first was published.

John Green read a passage from his new novel which is called Turtles All the Way Down.

John Green speaking to Terry Gross in 2017. His bestselling young adult novel Turtles All the Way Down has been made into a film which premieres May 2nd on the streaming service Max.

He drew on his own experiences with OCD, which he's dealt with since childhood, for Turtles All the Way Down.

R. Eric Thomas is a television writer, playwright, and author of the bestselling book Here for It, or How to Save Your Soul in America...