Robert Kolker Discusses 'Hidden Valley Road'

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The New York Times

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🗓️ 10 April 2020

⏱️ 54 minutes

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Kolker talks about a large family beset by schizophrenia, and Elisabeth Egan discusses Lily King's "Writers & Lovers."

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0:00.0	How does a family of 12 handle the diagnosis of six of its children with schizophrenia?
0:12.8	Robert Colker will be here to talk about his new book, Hidden Valley Road.
0:17.4	What does Lily King have to say about writers and lovers?
0:21.1	My colleague Elizabeth Egan will be here to talk about her latest pick for group text.
0:25.8	Alexander Alter will give us an update from the publishing world.
0:28.8	Plus, our critics will join us for the latest in literary criticism.
0:32.7	This is the Book of You podcast for The New York Times.
0:35.4	It's April 10th.
0:36.5	I'm Pamela Paul.
0:46.7	Robert Colker joins us now from Brooklyn to talk about his new book, Hidden Valley Road,
0:51.6	inside the mind of an American family.
0:54.1	Bob, thanks so much for being here.
0:55.6	Thank you, Pamela.
0:56.8	You were last here for your previous book, Lost Girls.
1:00.0	I want to talk about that a little bit later, but let's dive right into the subject of this book
1:04.9	because it is truly fascinating.
1:09.1	Tell us about the Galvan family.
1:11.4	Let's start with the parents Don and Mimi.
1:14.0	They're the subject of this book.
1:16.4	Don and Mimi really lived through the greatest moments of the 20th century.
1:20.5	He was a World War II veteran and the two of them put down roots in Colorado after the war
1:25.6	and raised a family and had 12 children.
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