We’re lucky to have Anne Frank’s diary — lucky that the diary was ever discovered, and lucky, too, that someone took a chance on publishing the eventual bestseller. This is all nicely outlined by Francine Prose, who has a new book out called Anne Frank: The Book, The Life, The Afterlife.

You can listen to her book talk here

Francine Prose talks about Anne Frank: The Book, the Life, the Afterlife. With the understanding one great writer has for another, Prose deftly parses the artistry, ambition, and enduring influence of the text millions have come to know as The Diary of a Young Girl.

Francine Prose is the author of many bestselling books of fiction, including A Changed Man and Blue Angel, which was a finalist for the National Book Award, and the nonfiction New York Times bestseller Reading Like a Writer.

Her novel, Household Saints, was adapted for a movie by Nancy Savoca. Another novel, The Glorious Ones, has been adapted into a musical of the same name by Lynn Ahrens and Stephen Flaherty, which ran at the Mitzi E. Newhouse Theatre at Lincoln Center in New York City in the Fall of 2007. Her latest novel, Goldengrove, was published in September 2008.

She is the president of PEN American Center. She lives in New York City.

Paul Auster's 'Invisible'

Paul Auster's fans know that beginning with his earliest work — his 1985-86 New York Trilogy, which revolves around a detective named Max Work — he has drawn upon the fast pacing, structure and noirish sleights of hand common to detective stories. He starts off with a mystery, sprinkles his pages with clues and constructs numerous elaborate scenarios in which Auster-like narrators find themselves randomly drawn into moments of violence or sexual pleasure.

His latest novel, Invisible, continues this tradition. It begins during the Vietnam era, a time of political turmoil and sometimes violent intergenerational conflict, when espionage and skulduggery infiltrated intellectual circles and university campuses.

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Jeni Stepanek Pays Tribute to Her Son in New Book “Messenger”

Jeni Stepanek has gone through what no mother should: she lost her 14-year-old son, Mattie, after his lifelong struggle with a rare form of muscular dystrophy. Now she’s come out with a new book, Messenger: The Legacy of Mattie J.T. Stepanek and Heartsongs, to pay tribute to the boy who inspired the world with his poems of hope and strength.
“Mattie’s body passed away five years ago, but I wrote this book because Mattie’s life is not about loss,” Jeni said on Good Morning America. “His life is a celebration of wit and wisdom and hope and peace, and his legacy’s getting bigger every year. And it was time to share the true story of his life.”

Check out the video on GMA’s website.and continue reading her Excerpt....