Why should you live to read and read to live? Will Schwalbe will tell us he's here to talk

about his latest books for living. This is an attempt by me to take all of that and

just show the ways that we use books and the ways that books help us.

What did your year in reading look like and what did it look like for Aver DuVernay,

Juno Diaz, Mary Oliver, Salmon Rusty and many more? We've asked them and will tell you

about what they told us. You know, a lot of people kind of added responding to the

to the election as part of their kind of what made their reading list, but he

definitely had kind of the most comprehensive number of books kind of all

dealing with trying to figure out various parts of the country that he admitted.

He didn't really have good enough of an awareness. Alexander Alter will give us

an update from the literary world and we'll talk about what we and the wider world

are reading this week. This is Inside the New York Times Booker View. I'm Pamela Paul.

Will Schwalbi joins us now to talk about his latest book, Books for Living. Well,

thank you for being here. Thank you Pamela. Thank you for having me. Before you

start talking about this book, I actually want you to talk a little bit about

your last book, which was a big bestseller, the end of your life book club,

because I'm going to assume that this grew out of that, but maybe not. So tell us

first about the end of your life book club. Well, the end of your life book club

was a book that I wrote about the books I read with my mother after she was

diagnosed with stage four pancreatic cancer. And we were actually very lucky as a

family because very often people die from three to six months after receiving

that diagnosis, but my mother had two years. And it was a long time. The book club

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