This week on The Reading Life: Tulane University’s Zachary Lazar, whose new novel of Jewish identity is I Pity the Poor Immigrant. We’ll also hear from Frances Mayes, author of the much beloved Under the Tuscan Sun, who has a new, surprisingly Southern memoir out, called Under Magnolia.
And Whitney Stewart makes her picture book debut with A Catfish Tale: A Bayou Tale of the Fisherman and His Wife.