How does novelist Lynn Olman handle the story of her famous parents, Ingmar Bergman and

Liv Olman, in her autobiographical novel Unquiet?

A.O. Scott joins us to discuss.

And what to do with all that anxiety?

Our help desk colonist Judith Newman will be here to talk about the latest books intent

on wiping it out.

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 the Book Review Podcast for the New York Times.

I'm Pamela Paul.

Joining us now, my colleague A.O. Scott, who reviews this week the new novel by Lynn Olman

Unquiet in the Book Review.

Tony, thanks for being here.

Great to be here, Pamela.

So I even feel funny using the word novel, right?

Yeah.

Well, this book, okay, we have to back up and say that Lynn Olman is the daughter of two

very famous Scandinavian cultural figures.

And her father is Ingmar Bergman and the great Swedish director.

Our mother is Liv Olman, the Norwegian actress.

And as was talked about in a profile that appeared in the Times magazine, this was something

that she never talked about and that she's been a prominent literary critic and novelist

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