What does James Coney think of the future of justice in America?

Joe Klein will join us to talk about Coney's new book, Saving Justice.

How is the subject of parenthood handled in Peter Hodevi's new novel?

Elizabeth Egan will be here to talk about this month's group text selection,

a lie someone told you about yourself.

Alexander Altair will have an update from the publishing world,

plus our critics will join us for the latest in literary criticism.

This is the Book of View podcast for The New York Times.

It's January 15th. I'm Pamela Paul.

Joe Klein joins us now to talk about a new book from James Coney.

It's called Saving Justice, Truth, Transparency and Trust.

Joe, thanks for being here.

It's good to be with you, Pamela.

All right, Joe, you don't need any introduction,

but for those who are not familiar with Joe, he is a former writer for The New Yorker,

former columnist for Time magazine author of many, many books,

including perhaps most famously one that did not appear with his,

byline, primary colors and a follow-up novel, Running Meat.

And this week he reviews for us at James Coney's second book.

So the obvious question I have to ask first is,

how does this book differ from his previous book?

Well, it doesn't differ very much at all, actually, except for one thing.

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