What does it mean to wave the flag?

Aaron Reddicka will be here to talk about the book, A Flag Worth Dying For, The Power

and Politics of National Symbols.

In general, in the book, there's a fun fact vibe where when you see the fun fact coming,

you kind of want to run the other way.

Why return to the Rockaways after 30 years?

AvAless Jill Eisenstadt will be here to talk about her latest novel, Swell.

I never stopped writing.

It was a kind of a confluence of events.

One of those that I forbid myself from writing any more outer borough fiction.

Alexander Alter and Concepcion Dileon will give us an update from the literary world.

Plus my colleagues and I will talk about what we're reading.

This is Inside the New York Times Booker View.

I'm Pamela Paul.

Aaron Reddicka joins us now to talk about his review of a new book called A Flag Worth

Dying For, The Power and Politics of National Symbols by Tim Marshall, who also wrote a book

called Prisoners of Geography, a former New York Times bestseller.

Aaron, thanks for being here.

Thank you.

Aaron, let's talk a little bit about your day job because you are my colleague here at

The New York Times, but in a different section, a separate section, the opinion section.

What do you do up there on the 13th floor?

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