TJC’s Up Close

On this week's episode of TJC's UpClose, interviews with NYT bestseller Jeff Sharlet on his new book, "Radiant Truths: Essential Dispatches, Reports, Confessions, and Other Essays on American Belief"; cartoonist Liana Finck on her debut graphic novel, "A Bintel Brief: Love and Longing in Old New York"; and humorist Michael Malice on raising awareness of the plight of North Koreans with his latest book, "Dear Reader: The Unauthorized Autobiography of Kim Jong Il."

http//newsdesk.tjctv.com TJC's Steven I. Weiss interviews The Atlantic editor Scott Stossel about his book, "My Age of Anxiety: Fear, Hope, Dread, and the Search for Peace of Mind," and author Letty Cottin Pogrebin about her latest book, "How to be a Friend to a Friend Who's Sick."

Early Christian influences on Jewish thought and texts. Featuring interviews with Ben-Gurion University professor Michal Bar-Asher Siegal, author of "Early Monastic Literature and the Babylonian Talmud, and DePaul University professor Alexei Sivertsev, author of "Jewish and Imperial Ideology in Late Antiquity"

In this episode of TJC Up Close, news anchor Steven I. Weiss speaks with former Jezebel.com editor Anna Holmes about her new book "The Book of Jezebel," and with the author of "A Jewish Ceremony for Newborn Girls," Sharon Siegel.

On this episode of Up Close, New York Magazine writer Jennifer Senior talks with TJC's Steven I. Weiss about her book All Joy and No Fun: The Paradox of Modern Parenthood, and self-described "Tiger mother" Amy Chua and her husband, Jed Rubenfeld, both professors at Yale Law School, discuss their controversial book The Triple Package: How Three Unlikely Traits Explain the Rise and Fall of Cultural Groups in America.

Interviews with New Yorker staff writer Rebecca Mead about her book "My Life in Middlemarch"; Oxford University professor Michael D. Coogan about his book "The Old Testament: A Historical and Literary Introduction to the Hebrew Scriptures"; and children's book experts Justin Schiller and Leonard Marcus on "Maurice Sendak: A Celebration of the Artist and His Work."

http://newsdesk.tjctv.com Best-selling author Tova Mirvis talks about her new novel, "Visible City," and her recent non-fiction New York Times piece about getting divorced and leaving Orthodox Judaism; author Gabriel Sherman discusses his new book, "The Loudest Voice in the Room: How the Brilliant, Bombastic Roger Ailes Built Fox News -- and Divided a Country."

http://newsdesk.tjctv.com Interviews with Jerusalem Post columnist Caroline Glick, author of "The Israeli Solution: A One State Plan for Piece in the Middle East"; Haggai Carmon, author of the Dan Gordon series of espionage novels, most recently "Defection Games"; and Thomas Cahill, author of "Heretics and Heroes: How Renaissance Artists and Reformation Priests Created Our World."

On this episode of TJC UP CLOSE, Steven I. Weiss interviews the authors of "HRC: State Secrets and the Rebirth of Hillary Clinton," Jonathan Allen and Amie Parnes, and speaks with Max Blumenthal, the author of "Goliath: Life and Loathing in Greater Israel," about Blumenthal's anti-Zionist views.

For the first time, Lonna Kin, a woman chained in her Jewish marriage for ten years even though her husband is marrying another woman, tells her story. Also, an interview with Andrew Michael Flescher, the author of "Moral Evil" about what we mean when we talk about evil.