Welcome to a special episode of The Learning Curve.

This episode is on International Holocaust Remembrance Day.

And so we have an incredible guest in Ruth Franklin.

I'm Andrea Silbert, and I'm the president of the Eos Foundation, which is a

charitable foundation combating hunger and promoting racial gender justice.

Ruth Franklin is a book critic and former editor at The New Republic.

She's the author of The Many Lives of Van Frank, 2025, which publishers weekly called An Essential Look at the Dyers Legacy. Franklin's first biography, Shirley Jackson, a rather

haunted life, won the National Book Critics Circle Award for Biography and was named a New York

Times notable book of 2016, a Time magazine top nonfiction book of 2016, and a, quote, best

book of 2016 by the Boston Globe, the San Francisco Chronicle, NPR, and others.

Her first book, A Thousand Darknesses Lies and Truth in Holocaust Fiction, 2011, was a finalist for the Sammy Roar Prize for Jewish Literature.

Franklin's work appears in many publications, including The New Yorker, the New York Times Book Review,

the New York Review of Books and Harper's. She has a recipient of a Guggenheim Fellowship in Biography,

a Coleman Fellowship at the New York Public Library, a Leon Levy Fellowship in Biography,

and the Roger Shattuck Prize for Criticism. Ms. Franklin lives in Brooklyn, New York.

Welcome, Ruth.

We're so excited to have you today on the podcast,

especially for this special episode

for International Holocaust Remembrance Day.

Thank you so much.

It's an honor to be here.

Let's jump in to a few questions.

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