Feb 26 Watch 5:56 ‘The Wife’ author Meg Wolitzer answers your questions Meg Wolitzer, author of our February pick for the NewsHour-New York Times book club, Now Read This, joins Jeffrey Brown to answer reader questions about “The Wife.” Plus, Jeff announces the March book selection. Continue watching
Feb 19 An annotated page from Meg Wolitzer’s ‘The Wife’ By Elizabeth Flock Author Meg Wolitzer explains where she gets her settings and stories, why she set the book in the first person, and how she creates humor on the page. Continue reading
Feb 12 Author Meg Wolitzer’s best advice: Write what’s important to you By Elizabeth Flock Wolitzer, author of "The Wife," says that in hearing a writing instructor tell the class to write what was important, she started to ask her 19-year-old self, "What’s important to me?"… Continue reading
Feb 04 Discussion questions for ‘The Wife’ By Elizabeth Flock Our February pick for the PBS NewsHour-New York Times book club is Meg Wolitzer's "The Wife." Here are discussion questions to guide your reading. Continue reading
Jan 29 February’s pick for the PBS NewsHour-New York Times book club is ‘The Wife’ By Elizabeth Flock Meg Wolitzer's novel is a darkly funny, intelligent tale of what happens when you decide to stop sacrificing your own talents in service of your spouse's success. Continue reading
Jan 29 Watch 6:50 ‘Heart’ author Sandeep Jauhar answers your questions Sandeep Jauhar, author of our January pick for the NewsHour-New York Times book club, Now Read This, joins Jeffrey Brown to answer reader questions on “Heart.” Plus, Jeff announces the February book selection. Continue watching
Jan 25 WATCH: Author Sandeep Jauhar explains what happens in a coronary angiogram By Elizabeth Flock More than 600,000 Americans will have a heart attack this year. As a result many of us -- or someone we love -- will one day undergo a coronary angiogram. Continue reading
Jan 17 An annotated page from ‘Heart’ By Elizabeth Flock Many of the experiments surgeons performed in the 1950s brought us to our current understanding of the human heart, but "would not pass muster with any institutional review board today," Sandeep Jauhar writes. Continue reading
Jan 09 ‘Don’t be such a writer,’ and more advice from author Sandeep Jauhar By Elizabeth Flock The author of new hit book "Heart: A History" says sometimes it's best let the story tell itself and to get out of the way. Continue reading
Jan 08 Watch 7:18 How Glory Edim’s online book club provides community for ‘invisible’ black women Glory Edim is the founder of Well-Read Black Girl, a book club that has transformed into an online community and literary festival, all celebrating voices that otherwise might not be heard. She talks with Jeffrey Brown about her original goal… Continue watching