At age 83, Robert Caro pulls back the curtains on his process, in his new book "Working." He also answers the question he is asked most often: why does it take him so long to write his books? Caro is the author of the Robert Moses biography "The Power Broker" and "The Years of Lyndon Johnson," The biographer, who has spent much time doing what he does best in the Allen Room of The New York Public Library, returns to share some stories of his own with William P. Kelly, The New York Public Library’s Andrew W. Mellon Director of the Research Libraries.
Nikki Giovani & Joy-Ann Reid
Stephen Greenblatt & Tony Kushner: Adam and Eve in the Teeth of Time
Kevin Young & Bunk—Hoaxes, Hooey, Hocum; Cons, Plagiarists, and Forgers
Anne Applebaum: Fighting Against the Great Forgetting
Theaster Gates: "I'm Trying to Create an Intimate Moment with Our Most Treasured Assets."
Van Jones: "You have to keep open the possibility for redemption."
Ron Chernow: Grant
Nasty Women
Mike Wallace, Greater Gotham
Salman Rushdie, The Golden House
Jesmyn Ward on 'Sing, Unburied, Sing'
Atul Gawande & Elizabeth Alexander
Kurt Andersen, Fantasyland
Raoul Peck, "I Am Not Your Negro"
Ayobami Adebayo on her debut novel "Stay With Me"
Ibram X. Kendi, Stamped from the Beginning
Noam Chomsky and Wallace Shawn: Rigorous Rationality
How Judy Collins Conquered Her Cravings
Lynn Nottage & Sweat
Immigrant Stories—Min Jin Lee with Simon Winchester
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