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In adapting Kai Bird and Martin J. Sherwin's Oppenheimer biography, American Prometheus, Nolan comes at his subject from every angle.

And they gave me a book to read, Jonathan Schell's The Village of Ben Sook. And when I finished the book, I closed it. I was a different person.

The making of Born To Run is the subject of the recent book Tonight in Jungle Land, which is also the title of Born To Run's final track.

His new book is called Tonight in Jungle Land, The Making of Born to Run. He's also the author of a biography of Springsteen called Bruce.

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

Peter Ames Carlin is the author of the book Tonight in Jungle Land The Making of Born to Run. Our interview was recorded in August.

His new book is called Tonight in Jungle Land, The Making of Born to Run. He's also the author of a biography of Springsteen called Bruce.

And I wrote Finding Chica, you know, which was a story about a little girl who we adopted from Haiti who had a brain tumor. In it, I tell the whole story of the orphanage.

We'll continue our end-of-year retrospective tomorrow with an interview about the now-classic Bruce Springsteen album Born to Run, which celebrated its 50th anniversary last August. We'll talk with Peter Ames Carlin about his new book, Tonight in Jungle Land, The Making of Born to Run.

Mitch Albom, whose book Tuesdays with Maury became a bestselling memoir and was adapted into an Emmywinning film.

Carla's Choice takes place in 1963, between Le Carr's novels The Spy Who Came In From The Cold and Tinker Tailor's Soldier Spy.

Carla's Choice takes place in 1963, between Le Carr's novels The Spy Who Came In From The Cold and Tinker Tailor's Soldier Spy.

This was a skill he had once possessed, but could not guarantee until he tested it again. By the time he reached the circus, he was, as he had been for the three preceding decades of his life, afraid.

I love the new book.

Carla's Choice is now out in paperback.

His books include The Gone Away World, Titanium Noir, and Tiger Man.

His books include The Gone Away World, Titanium Noir, and Tiger Man.

There was a collection of your father's letters came out a few years ago. It's called A Private Spy.

She also directed episodes of Elementary, Luke Cage, New Amsterdam, Why Women Kill, and American-Born Chinese.

Whipple is the author of the books Uncharted, how Trump beat Biden, Harris and the odds in the wildest campaign in history, and the gatekeepers about White House Chiefs of Staff.

Whipple is also the author of the 2025 book Unchartered, How Trump Beat Biden, Harris, and the Odds in the Wildest Campaign in History.

He directed a version of No Exit by Sartre.

Well, helpfully, my mother has written a novel, so a quite autobiographical novel called The Day I Fell Off My Island.

We linger in Italy for The Silver Book, the seductive new novel by English writer Olivia Lang.

We linger in Italy for The Silver Book, the seductive new novel by English writer Olivia Lang.

The Silver Book is at once a love story, an insightful portrait of the artistic process, a look into Rome's famous Cinecitta studios, and an oblique snapshot of the politically violent era in Italy known as the Years of Lead.

Craig Brewer's new film is Song Sung Blue. Ben Markowitz's novel, The Rest of Our Lives, was shortlisted for the 2025 Booker Prize and has just been published in the U.S. Our book critic Maureen Corrigan says it's the perfect little literary novel to curl up with, especially if winter weather has you feeling cooped up.

Tom Layward, the narrator and main character of Ben Markowitz's new novel, The Rest of Our Lives, introduces himself in a curious way. On the very first page of the book, he talks matteroffactly about the affair his wife Amy had 12 years ago when their two kids were young.

Twelve years have since passed, and the marriage has settled back into a state of okayness. Miriam, now 18, is starting college in Pittsburgh, and because Amy is having a tough time with Miriam's departure, Tom alone drives her to campus. And once Tom drops Miriam off, he just keeps driving westward without explanation to us or to himself.

There's a strain of Richard Ford and John Updike in Tom's tone, which I mean as a high compliment. The novel balances wry, mournful, and casually astute narration while delivering an engaging roadtrip story.

The canon of roadtrip stories in American literature is vast, even more so if you count other modes of transportation besides cars, like, say, rafts. But the most memorable road trips, like The Rest of Our Lives, notice the easytomiss signposts, marking life forks in the road and looming mortality that make the journey itself everything.

She is up for a Golden Globe, nominated for Best Actress in a Motion Picture for her portrayal of Hedda, Nia DaCosta's reimagining of Henrik Ibsen's classic play.

Okay, let's talk about Hedda. It was written in 1891. But what fascinates me is its persistence.

I think to your point, these pieces are ripe for adaptation because they're dexterous enough to handle them. But for my money, I always think if you're going to do a classic, you kind of have to implicate yourself.

Number one, I mean, casting you as Hedda is the biggest way.

She is up for a Golden Globe for her role in the film Hedda, an interpretation of Henrik Ibsen's classic play, Hedda Gabler.