This episode features an interview I had recently with Amor Towles. His first book, Rules of Civility , was a novel layered in the opulence of society. The theme is repeated in his second novel-- A Gentleman in Moscow --but this time it turns to Russia during its transition to the Stalinist Era. After the Russian Revolution, Count Alexander Rostov--the gentleman of the title--is placed under house arrest at the Hotel Metropol and for the next 3 decades must decide whether he will master his