"It took me two years to find, even though I knew it was out there, this unpublished autobiography that Martin Luther King’s father wrote. Now I’ve got five, six years to work on a story, and I take full advantage of that," Eig says. “I was a newspaper reporter for a long, long time - and you know, working on daily stories, if you got five days to work on a story, it was a luxury. On this week’s podcast, Eig describes the process of researching and writing the book, and tells the host Gilbert Cruz how he tracked down resources that were unavailable to earlier biographers. Jonathan Eig’s book “King: A Life” is the first comprehensive biography in decades of Martin Luther King Jr., drawing on reams of interviews and newly uncovered archival materials to paint a fuller picture of the civil rights leader than we have received before. The books discussed on "What We're Reading" this week: Brown visits the podcast to discuss his new biography of Henry Adams, “The Last American Aristocrat.” Adams was the great-grandson of John Adams, the grandson of John Quincy Adams and the author of “The Education of Henry Adams,” a posthumously published memoir that is widely considered one of the greatest nonfiction works of the 20th century.Īlso, Alexandra Alter answers questions from listeners about the publishing industry, and Gregory Cowles, John Williams and the show's host, Pamela Paul, discuss what they're reading. On this week’s podcast, Yu, himself a writer for TV as well as a novelist, discusses the book and why he wrote it.ĭavid S. ![]() It features an actor named Willis Wu, who has a very small role in a TV show. Charles Yu’s “Interior Chinatown,” which won the National Book Award for fiction in November, is a satire about Hollywood’s treatment of Asian-Americans.
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