Is it possible to die beautifully and to write beautifully about the experience?

Andrew Solomon joins us to talk about his review of five new books about life, love, and death.

I'm living more in reality than I have been and I'm going to do a better job of loving

because of the love that's in these books.

How do you tell a character story through the room she's lived in?

Alexander Fuller will be here to talk about Olga Grouchan's new novel, Forty Rooms.

There's plenty of rooms for the reader to get in there and wrestle with, well, what are

the rooms of my life?

And I found myself thinking, you know, the greenhouse.

Alexander Altair will give us an update for the literary world.

John Williams will be here to share some Valentine's book recommendations from our readers and listeners.

And Greg Cole's has best cellar news.

This is Inside the New York Times Booker View.

I'm Pamela Paul.

Andrew Solomon joins us now.

Andrew did the heroic feat of reading through five books about love and primarily death.

I will go through the titles, but first Andrew, thank you for being here.

What a pleasure.

The books are Death's Summer Coat.

What the history of death and dying can tell us about life and living by Brandy Shilase,

the good death and exploration of dying in America by Ann Neumann,

in the slender margin, the intimate strangeness of death and dying by Eve Joseph,

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