Hello everyone, I'm Gilbert Cruz and this is the Book Review Podcast where we're continuing

to highlight great conversations from our decade plus archive.

I know we have many long time listeners of this show who are eager for new episodes.

I know this because a not small number of those listeners have made their opinions very

clear by emailing us at books at nytimes.com, which you should continue to do.

So we'll have a few new episodes coming in December, the annual announcement of our top

ten books of the year, which we often record as a live event, and a conversation with our

staff critics about their year in reading.

So stay tuned for those episodes.

Today we have a pair of interviews with nonfiction authors.

The first from March 2021 is with Mark Harris and it's about his biography of the film and

theater director Mike Nichols.

Mark Nichols' life is Mark's third nonfiction book focused on film.

His first pictures at a revolution about the films nominated for Best Picture in 1967

remains one of my absolute favorite books on film.

Mark Harris joins us now from New York.

He is the author of several books, including Five Came Back, a story of Hollywood and the

Second World War, and pictures at a revolution, five movies and the birth of the new Hollywood.

And now a biography of Mike Nichols, Mark.

Thanks so much for being here.

Thanks for having me.

I feel like most people know who Mike Nichols was, but that might just be because I'm such

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