Our robots taking over our jobs and will we be paid for the jobs that are left?

Barbara Aaron Reich joins us to talk about her cover review of two new books, Rise of

the Robots and the Shadow Economy.

And the, you know, visions are made, have been made again and again in favor of reducing

human labor in the interest of profit.

How well does Oliver Sacks tell his own story?

Andrew Solomon will join us to talk about Sacks' new memoir on the move.

In this book, I felt as though there was a really deep humanity as though he admitted to

the ways in which he was damaged.

I liked him a lot more after this book than I've liked him before.

Alexander Alter will chair her notes from the publishing world, and Greg Cole's has

bestseller news.

This is Inside the New York Times Book Review.

I'm Pamela Paul.

Barbara Aaron Reich joins us now.

She reviews on her cover this week two books, Rise of the Robots, Technology and the

Threat of a Jobless Future by Martin Ford, and Shadowwork, the unpaid unseen jobs that fill

your day by Craig Lambert.

Barbara, thanks so much.

Oh, delighted.

Delighted to talk about this cheerless topic, but a timely one.

Let's start off with Martin Ford's book, Rise of the Robots, Technology and the Threat

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