Watch as we share our perfect summer reads and much more, in this two-part edition of Book Review Live. In Part 1, Pamela Paul, editor of The New York Times Book Review, welcomes best-selling author Ann Patchett to celebrate the joy of great stories in unsettling times. What do you read when the summer you know is suddenly unknowable?
In Part 2, John Williams, daily Books editor at The Times peeks through the shelves of Lisa Lucas, executive director of the National Book Foundation and Parul Sehgal, book critic at The Times.
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