What happens when 12 children are forced to take a vacation with their parents together

at a lakeside mansion?

Lydia Millett will be here to talk about her new novel, The Children's Bible.

How do you explain Henry Kissinger's guiding philosophy?

Barry Goon will join us to talk about his book, The Inevitability of Tragedy, Henry Kissinger

and his world.

Alexander Altair will give us an update from the publishing world, plus our critics

will join us for the latest in literary criticism.

This is the Book Review Podcast from The New York Times.

I'm Pamela Paul.

Lydia Millett joins us now from outside Tucson, Arizona.

Her latest book is called A Children's Bible.

Lydia, thanks for being here again.

I'm happy to be here.

How is your quarantine going?

Well, you know, I am not sick.

No one in the family is sick and we're not hungry and we haven't lost our jobs yet.

So I'd say it's going all right.

Are you reading?

Because I feel like some people are saying they're having trouble reading and other people

are doing nothing but reading.

You know, I've been reading, but it's been mostly nonfiction research for the book that

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