Brian Lear on WNYC in our Spring Membership Drive trying to reach our goal of a thousand donations by seven o'clock and during this drive on this show we're

featuring new books that's going to be a series for this whole seven days

of Brian Laireshoves in this drive, books

that we have on the Brian Laire Show bookshelf.

Some really interesting titles are out recently and we decided we would feature some of them. Some are more political, some are more personal. Some are by famous people, some by authors who are less well known, but who we think you'll enjoy listening to or learning from or

interacting with we're planning to have at least one author on the show each day of

the drive sometimes two and we'll kick it off right now with New York Times columnist Nicholas Christoph, who has now

been with the Times for 40 years and who has just published a memoir about a lot of that

called Chasing Hope, a reporter's life and you know we could use some hope in these pessimistic

times right interesting that it comes from Christoph who has devoted his

career as you regular readers would know,

through exposing some of the worst suffering in the world. That's what he's done.

But maybe you saw his recent Times Up Ed, his column, that draws on the book called The Case for Hope.

We'll talk about that.

He also has a book related New York event tonight that brought him in physically from Oregon.

It's Nicholas Christoph in conversation

with the author Tara Westover at the striker

cultural center of Temple Emanuel

at 65th and 5th in Manhattan.

Tonight at 6.30.

Check the Temple Emanuel Stryker Center website for tickets.

They're selling ticket plus book combos.

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