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Albany, NY – The world of academia is the setting for Elinor Lipman's newest novel "My Latest Grievance," the story of a girl raised by her two left-wing college professor parents and the effect on their family when an old flame of her father's returns to wreak havoc.

Albany, NY – Jodi Picoult, author of "My Sister's Keeper" and "Vanishing Acts," comes onto The Book Show to discuss her newest novel "The Tenth Circle." It tells the story of the Stone family, which is rocked when Trixie Stone, daughter of Daniel and Laura, is date-raped. Daniel finds himself facing an angry part of himself he thought long gone, and Laura must deal with her guilt over being with her lover when her daughter needed her. Picoult discusses the research done for the novel and the book's unique nature as a novel-comic hybrid.

Albany, NY – Hilma Wolitzer's books "Heart's Ending" and "Tunnel of Love" earned her critical acclaim and a devoted following, but she experienced a long period of writer's block, which she talks candidly about in this interview. Her new novel "The Doctor's Daughter," is her first in 12 years, and tells the story of a book doctor in her 50s who begins to have doubts about her marriage, career and relationship with her deteriorating father.

Albany, NY – Walter Mosley, of "Easy Rawlins" fame, talks to Gretchen about his newest novel, "Fortunate Son," the story of two boys - one privileged and white, the other black with a hole in his lung - who are raised together and forced to separate. Mosley talks about the book's themes of race and fate, and about how it has been received by readers and critics.

Albany, NY – Sarah Waters' newest book "The Night Watch" tells the story of lesbian ambulance drivers during the Blitz of London. Gretchen Holbrook Gerzina talks to the author about how she got into writing historical fiction, what things were like for Londoners in World War II, and her thoughts on being perceived as a lesbian writer.

Albany, NY – Julia Alvarez, author of the bestselling novel "How the Garcia Girls Lost Their Accents," talks about her latest novel "Saving the World." The book is the story of women in two time periods, one a 21st-century Vermont writer who finds herself fascinated by the story of the other, a 19th-century woman who travels the world inoculating people against smallpox.