What does it mean to be a grown-up and how do you get there?

Megan Down and Heather Havrleski will join us to talk about their cover reviews this week

of how to raise a grown-up and the prime of life.

I don't think that the kids that are being taught the exact correct code to enter the

1% are necessarily being nurtured and taught to be happy individuals.

What happens when a young woman loses all her money and identification in Casablanca?

Vendela Vita will tell us about her new novel, The Diverse Clothes, Lying Empty.

I was still happy and I think my mood was just as I was almost levitating about my chair

and the police station.

Alexander Alter will let us know what's going on in the publishing world.

Greg Cole's has best solar news and will also let listeners and readers ask a few questions

for us editors here.

This is Inside the New York Times Book Review.

I'm Pamela Paul.

Heather Havrleski and Megan Down both join us now to talk about this week's cover which

looks at three books about what it means to be an adult and how you get there.

Heather Havrleski is a columnist for New York Magazine and book forum and the author of

the memoir Disaster Preparedness and she reviews this week a book called How to Raise

an Adult.

Break free of the over parenting trap and prepare your kid for success by Julie Lyft-Cott-Hames

and also here Megan Down the author of The Unspeakable and Other Subjects of Discussion

and she reviews this week the Prime of Life, a history of modern adulthood by Stephen

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