What really happened to George and Willie Muse, two albino African-American

brothers who were kidnapped and shown as circus side show freaks in the Jim Crow

South, author Beth Macy will be here to talk about her new book, Truevine.

Willie Muse himself said that he was, he used the word stolen. He was stolen. He

named the person who stole him and that's the story that the family still sticks

by. What could be more fun than a collaboration between the great writer Calvin

Trillin and the amazing writer and illustrator, Roz Chast. They'll be here to talk

with our children's book editor Maria Russo about their latest collaboration.

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than a wise man said is where you're under pants instead.

Is having a child the last stop on the Mad Cap train that is the Bridget Jones

series? Molly Young, our reviewer, is here to talk about Helen Fielding's latest novel,

Bridget Jones's Baby. I just imagine readers cringing every 40 or 50 pages and

just getting a case of the willies when they remember that this is supposed to be

a letter to the the baby in utero. Also literary news and what we and other people

are reading this week. This is Inside the New York Times Booker View. I'm Pamela

Paul.

Beth Macy will join us now to talk about her new book True Vine, Two Brothers,

A Kidnapping and a Mother's Quest, a true story of the Jim Crow South. Beth,

thank you for being here. Thanks for having me Pamela. So this is the story in

large part of Willie and George Mews. Who were they? They were Albino African

American brothers born around the turn of the last century. They were a sharecropping

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