How did two young Chetchnian immigrants grow up to become the Boston Marathon Bombers?

Masha Gesson will tell us the story behind the brothers, the road to an American tragedy.

Most people who are marginalized and even most people who hold radical beliefs do not actually

build bonds and blow people up.

How do you get into a good new habit and out of your bad ones?

Gretchen Rubin will be here to talk about her new book better than before.

It's a pretty pervasive way of looking at the world and relating to expectations because

this all has to do with how you respond to an expectation.

We'll have the latest update from the publishing world and Greg Cole's has bestseller news.

This is Inside the New York Times Book Review.

I'm Pamela Paul.

Masha Gesson joins me now.

Our book The Brothers, the Road to an American Tragedy, is reviewed this week on our cover

by Janet Napolitano.

Hi, Masha.

Hi, good to be here.

So what led you to write a book about the Cerniah of Brothers?

What actually happened was that my oldest friend, when we were preteens in Moscow and then

we were friends in Boston and then we were friends back in Moscow.

And now in the States, again, she called me and she said, you know, you have to drop everything

and write a book about the Cerniah of Brothers.

This was like a day or two after they were identified.

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