How do you rate about a lifetime of clinical depression?

Daphne Merkin will join us to talk about her new memoir, This Closed to Happy, A Reckoning

with Depression.

I know in my head it was a whole scenario, it wasn't a realistic scenario because I was

alive to see the poignant aftermath of my suicide, which was that the door man would find

me.

Everyone would realize I had been unjustly treated.

It was always about the aftermath.

What happens when a young Korean woman pregnant and abandoned emigrates to Japan, Minjin

Lee will be here to talk about her new novel, Pachinko.

She doesn't have an intention to be a permanent immigrant.

And actually, most people in history don't go to Japan for this kind of reason, but this

girl does.

Alexander Alter will give us an update from the literary world.

Plus, we'll talk about what we and the wider world are reading.

This is Inside the New York Times Book Review.

I'm Pamela Paul.

Daphne Merkin joins us now.

Her new book is called This Closed to Happy, A Reckoning with Depression.

Daphne has also written, Dreaming of Hitler, Enchantment, and most recently The Fame Lunches.

Daphne, thanks so much for being here.

Thank you for having me.

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