Roberto Saviano, internationally bestselling author of Gamora, is back with the searing

novel of youth, crime, and desperation in the violent streets of Naples, Italy.

The piranhas, gangs on motor scooters, rove the city, getting what they want with semi-automatic

pistols in AK-47s, as one brilliant and ambitious teenager from the slums resolves to create

a crime organization of his peers more powerful and ruthless than the Neapolitan Mafia.

Read The Piranhas, The Boybosses of Naples by Roberto Saviano, wherever books are sold

from Farage Strauss and Jiru.

Fall is prestige season for movies and books, and for movies based on books.

Welcome to a special bonus episode of Inside the New York Times book review.

I'm John Williams, an editor and writer at the Times.

First up, I'll be joined by the Oscar winner Barry Jenkins, who's followed his award-winning

moonlight with an adaptation of a novel by James Baldwin.

Meg Wallitzer will be here to discuss the wife, based on her novel of the same name,

and starring Glenn Close and Jonathan Price.

And lastly, we'll get the critics' perspective on the art of adapting for the screen from

the Times' A.O. Scott and Dwight Garner.

The writer-director Barry Jenkins became a household Hollywood name with moonlight, which

was nominated for eight Oscars.

It won three of them, including Best Picture and Best Adapted Screenplay, an award that

Jenkins shared with his co-writer on the film, Terrell Alvin McCraney.

Jenkins has now followed up that life-changing effort, with, if Beale Street could talk,

his adaptation of a 1974 novel by James Baldwin.

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