Should parents of tween girls be terrified, Peggy Ornstein will join us to talk about her

new book, Girls and Sex, navigating the complicated new landscape.

Media is saturated with sex and yet we never have real and true conversations with our

kids about the reality of sex.

How do you turn one of the most shocking plays in NFL history into fodder for our novel?

John Williams will be here to talk about Chris Bacheldur's new book, The Throwback Special.

I mean, is it friendship? Is it loyalty? Is it just sort of scratching this nostalgic

itch all the time? It's unclear that any one of those things really satisfies these guys

or gives them some organizing principle for their life.

Alexander Alter will give us an update from the literary world and Greg Cole's has best

seller news. This is Inside the New York Times Book Review. I'm Pamela Paul.

Peggy Ornstein joins us now. Her new book is called Girls and Sex, navigating the complicated

new landscape. Peggy, thank you so much for being here. Thank you for having me.

I have so much to say about this subject and I am sure you do too and you have written

an entire book on it. Did you your last book was on Cinderella Eat My Daughter? How did you

get from there to here? You have a daughter. Was it sort of a would you tracking in away

her progression from Cinderella age to? Absolutely, absolutely. That was to you know, I mean,

I'm a mom and I have been writing about girls for 25 years but you know, now I'm a mom and I look

at the culture that we live in that where sexualized images of women are everywhere. Every media is

saturated with sex and yet we never have real and true conversations with our kids about the

reality of sex and it's really tempting I think as a parent to sort of put your head in the

sand and go into denial and just say, I don't want to know because there's really nothing

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