This bonus episode features the live conversation with your host, Tim Ehrenberg of Tim Talks Books, at the Nantucket Book Festival with one of his favorite novelists, Wally Lamb. Wally is the author of seven New York Times best-sellers, three of them selections for Oprah’s Book Club, She’s Come Undone, I Know This Much is True, and most recently, The River is Waiting. The two discuss many of Wally’s books, one of Tim’s favorites of all time, I Know This Much is True, and the newest novel, The River is Waiting. They examine its themes, our prison system, addiction, the act of forgiveness, emotional intelligence, and the transformative power of fiction.

A Special thank you to our episode sponsor:
J.Crew

Wally Lamb Reading List:

• She’s Come Undone
• I Know this Much is True
• The Hour I First Believed
• Couldn’t Keep it To Myself
• I’ll Fly Away
• We Are Water
• Wishin’ and Hopin’
• The River is Waiting

What else are we reading in this episode?
Flannery Conner, Anny Tyler, Raymond Carver, John Updike
Great Expectations by Charles Dickens
Flannery O’Conner Collected Stories
Raymond Carver Collected Stories
The Hero with a Thousand Faces by Joseph Campbell
Bird by Bird by Ann Lamott
Paper Girl by Beth Macy

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