Mar 04 Discussion questions for ‘The Power’ By Elizabeth Flock The sci-fi novel "The Power" is our March pick for the PBS NewsHour-New York Times book club, Now Read This. We hope you'll read along. Continue reading
Feb 26 The March pick for the PBS NewsHour-New York Times book club is ‘The Power’ By Elizabeth Flock Naomi Alderman's "The Power" imagines a future in which women have special powers that flip the established gender dynamics and turn the world on its head. Continue reading
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