How did New York City recover from its 70s low and where does it go from here?

Thomas Gigeau will join us to talk about his new book, New York, New York, New York.

Can you trust a memoir about lying and deception?

Derek Delgadia will be here to talk about his new book, Immoral Man.

Alexandra Altair will have an update from the publishing world, plus my colleagues and

I will talk about what we're reading.

This is the Booker View Podcast for the New York Times.

It's March 19th.

I'm Pamela Paul.

Thomas Dijad joins us now.

He joins us from the North Fork of Long Island, but normally he is in New York City, and that

makes sense.

Given the topic of his new book, it's called New York, New York, New York.

More decades of success, excess, and transformation.

Thomas, thanks for being here.

Thank you so much.

So I guess it's not unusual that you would be outside the city during quarantine times,

but are you?

Normally, I'm assuming a full time at New Yorker.

Were you born and raised here?

I was not born and raised here.

My wife was born and raised in New York, but I came to New York in 1980 for college and

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