The Book Show Each week on The Book Show, host Gretchen Holbrook Gerzina interviews authors about their books, their lives and their craft. Notable guests on the show include Toni Morrison, Mary Gordon, David McCullough, Nathaniel Philbrick, Bill Wyman, Salman Rushdie, Khaled Hosseini and A.S. Byatt. Gretchen Holbrook Gerzina is is the Kathe Tappe Vernon Professor in Biography at Dartmouth College, where she also chairs the English Department. She is the author or editor of seven books of nonfiction which have been widely reviewed, and has appeared numerous times on British radio and television. Her books are Carrington; Black London; Black Victorians/Black Victoriana; Frances Hodgson Burnett: The Unexpected Life of the Author of the Secret Garden; as well as the Norton Critical Edition of The Secret Garden and the forthcoming Annotated Secret Garden, and Mr. and Mrs Prince: How an Extraordinary 18th Century Family Moved out of Slavery and into Legend. She teaches courses on the novel. Gretchen has been hosting The Book Show” since 1997. E-mail The Book Show. Recent and upcoming shows: Support WAMC with your Amazon.com purchase of this book. Click image. Show #1,035 - week of May 19 Patrick McDonnell - McDonnell's comic strip "Mutts" appears in 700 newspapers around the world. He's also on the executive board of the Humane Society, and talks about his new book Shelter Stories: Love. Guaranteed. Support WAMC with your Amazon.com purchase of this book. Click image. Show #1,034 - week of May 12 Chinua Achebe Tribute - This year celebrates the 50th anniversary of Chinua Achebe's groundbreaking novel Things Fall Apart. This is a special broadcast of an event in his honor. Support WAMC with your Amazon.com purchase of this book. Click image. Show #1,033 - week of May 5 Siri Hustvedt - Hustvedt's intriguing new novel The Sorrows of an American, features a middle-aged brother and sister, living in New York but originally from Minnesota, as they unravel their feelings about their parents, their former partners, and their new loves. Support WAMC with your Amazon.com purchase of this book. Click image. Show #1,032 - week of April 28 Leif Enger - Leif Enger, whose novel Peace Like a River was a big bestseller, has followed it with So Brave, Young, and Handsome, an homage to the Wild West of 1915. Support WAMC with your Amazon.com purchase of this book. Click image. Show #1,031 - week of April 21 Susan Jacoby - Jacoby takes on both the right and the left in her new book The Age of American Unreason, an examination on the anti-intellectualism and anti-rationalism of modern American culture. Support WAMC with your Amazon.com purchase of this book. Click image. Show #1,030 - week of April 14 Gretchen Holbrook Gerzina - Novelist Valerie Martin turns the table on Book Show host , and interviews her for her new book Mr. and Mrs. Prince, the dramatic story of two remarkable former slaves in New England. Support WAMC with your Amazon.com purchase of this book. Click image. Show #1,029 - week of April 7 Meg Wolitzer - Wolitzer's new novel The Ten Year Nap looks at a group of mothers in New York who reassess their lives now that they are in their forties. Support WAMC with your Amazon.com purchase of this book. Click image. Show #1,028 - week of March 31 Lionel Shriver - Does she or doesn't she? Shriver's novel The Post-Birthday World is told in two parallel tracks, when a woman decides which man to spend her future with. Support WAMC with your Amazon.com purchase of this book. Click image. Show #1,027 - week of March 24 Mat Johnson - Mat Johnson, novelist, teamed up with artist Warren Pleece to produce Incognegro: A Graphic Mystery that takes place in 1920s Harlem and the American South. Support WAMC with your Amazon.com purchase of this book. Click image. Show #1,026 - week of March 17 Hari Kunzru - Hari Kunzru's new novel, My Revolutions, is the story of a British revolutionary who went underground after the 1960s and now has to come to terms with his life. Support WAMC with your Amazon.com purchase of this book. Click image. Show #1,025 - week of March 10 Rachel Fershleiser - The editors of the online publication Smith Magazine solicited six-word memoirs from the unknown and the famous, now collected in the book Not Quite What I Was Planning. Support WAMC with your Amazon.com purchase of this book. Click image. Show #1,024 - week of March 3 Marie Phillips - The gods from Olympus--Artemis, Apollo, Athena, Zeus, and the rest of their dysfunctional family--are now living in a squalid house in London, in Marie Phillips's hilarious new novel, Gods Behaving Badly. Support WAMC with your Amazon.com purchase of this book. Click image. Show #1,023 - week of February 25 Anne Enright - Irish novelist Enright won the Man Booker prize for her novel The Gathering, about the aftermath in a large family when one of the grown sons commits suicide. Support WAMC with your Amazon.com purchase of this book. Click image. Show #1,022 - week of February 18 Susan Choi - Choi's remarkable novel, A Person of Interest, follows an aging and reclusive math professor from Asia who is suspected of being a letter bomber. Support WAMC with your Amazon.com purchase of this book. Click image. Show #1,021 - week of February 11 Adam Langer - Langer's Ellington Boulevard is a music-filled riff on the Manhattan real estate boom. Support WAMC with your Amazon.com purchase of this book. Click image. Show #1,020 - week of February 4 Pat Barker - Prize-winning author Pat Barker is back with a new novel about the art world and World War I in collision with each other, in Life Class. Support WAMC with your Amazon.com purchase of this book. Click image. Show #1,019 - week of January 28 Khaled Hosseini - The film "The Kite Runner" is playing now to acclaim, so we're replaying this 2005 interview with the book's author, Khaled Hosseini. Support WAMC with your Amazon.com purchase of this book. Click image. Show #1,018 - week of January 21 Marcus Rediker - Historian Marcus Rediker's new book The Slave Ship: A Human History brings to life the devastating story of the lives of those--black and white--who crossed the Atlantic over four hundred years on the "floating dungeons." Listen to Recent Book Shows