Bill welcomes acclaimed novelist Claire Messud to the show. Claire has twice been a finalist for the PEN/Faulkner Award; her second novel, The Last Life, was a Publishers Weekly Best Book of the Year and Editor's Choice at The Village Voice. All of her books have been New York Times Notable Books of the Year. She has been awarded a Guggenheim Fellowship and a Radcliffe Fellowship, and is the current recipient of the Straus Living Award from the American Academy of Arts and Letters. We will be discussing her newest novel, The Burning Girl. Should be fun!