What's the latest story out of the fictional Bois O'Vage, Mississippi?

I write about people like the people I grew up with and like people in my family, and so

I think there's real worth in being around the kind of people that I write about.

Jasmine Ward will be here to discuss her new novel, Sing Unburied Sing.

Why five new books about Darwin now?

The simple we have here that we look at in the review is representative in some ways of

the more readable books.

David Dobbs will be here to talk about the latest takes on the theory of evolution.

How do you go from writing a best-selling, high-fantasy YA trilogy to a standalone novel

that breaks all genre definitions?

In order to write a book, you have to have the passion to write the particular book and

I don't have a lot of control over what idea is going to attract me and make me passionate.

Kristen Kassor will be here to talk about her new book, Jane Unlimited.

Alexander Alder will give us an update from the literary world, plus we'll talk about

what we and the wider world are reading.

This is Inside the New York Times Book Review.

I'm Pamela Paul.

Jasmine Ward joins us now from San Francisco where she is on tour for her new novel, Sing Unburied

Sing.

Jasmine, thanks for joining us.

Thank you for having me.

So this is an exciting moment for you because the book came out, I think, was it September

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