How do you survive a divorce and write about it well?

Alexander Fuller will tell us about her latest memoir, leaving before the reins come.

And it's a hard pill, I think, for not just women to swallow, but you know, mothers to swallow

and families to swallow because what that means is that you aren't going to do this

as well, behaved woman-in-lock step with society.

Is the first novel by Miranda Julylike?

Lauren Groff will join us to talk about her review of the first bad man.

She's weird, she's kind of an oddball, and it's really, really easy to call something

that's strange, quirky to diminish its power.

John Williams will update us on what's going on in the publishing world.

And great coals has bestseller news.

This is Inside the New York Times Book Review.

I'm Pamela Paul.

Alexander Fuller joins us now from Jackson Hole, Wyoming.

She is the author of several books, including a number of memoirs, and her most recent

memoir is called Leaving Before the Reigns Come.

Reviewed this week in the Book Review by Rachel Cusk.

Hi, Alexander.

Hi.

I have some of the great titles I have to say for memoirs.

The first, of course, such a brilliant and evocative title don't let's go to the dogs

tonight, an African childhood, but also a cocktail hour under the tree of forgetfulness.

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