It's the Brian Larry Show on WNYC. Good morning, everyone, in our spring membership drive,

trying to reach our goal of 10,000 donors. Thank you for being one if you can.

During this drive on this show, we're featuring new books. Some really interesting titles are out

recently, some more political, some more personal. We're going to do one of each today, some 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 having at least one author on the show each day of the drive, sometimes two.

And today it is two. Later in the show, we'll have Dr. Meg Jay. Do you know her? Her latest appearance on the show,

she specializes in writing about people in their 20s. So if you're in your 20s or you have

kids or grandkids in their 20s, this is an especially challenging time to be in your 20s, right?

And a whole different era now than when we had Dr. Jay on for her earlier book about people in their

20s before the pandemic, actually way before

the pandemic. That was 2012. So Meg Jay later in our Brian Lairshow Spring Bookshelf series,

we'll take calls for her too. We'll kick it off, however, here. Frank Bruney has a new book.

You may know him as a New York Times opinion columnist or remember his book about President George W. Bush called Ambling into history. But Frank has done it all at the times. He worked in the New York Metro Department, worked in the D.C. Bureau. He was Bureau Chief in Rome for a while, and some of you may remember when

Frank Bruny was the New York Times restaurant critics. So all over the map, literally, figuratively, and

gastronomically. These days, he writes a weekly newsletter for the Times and periodic op-ed essays,

and he's a professor of public policy at Duke University.

In Frank's new book, he's more of a culture critic. It's called The Age of Grievance.

We'll also ask about his recent piece for The Times called Chris Christie and Bill Barr have

some explaining to do, and that's even more relevant now that Biden and Trump have agreed to debate on television

next month. Frank, thanks for coming on today. Congratulations on the new book. Welcome back to WNYC.

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