Forum Network

Bret Anthony Johnston, director of creative writing at Harvard and author of Corpus Christi: Stories, hosts a novelist panel on the family in fiction.

Pulitzer Prize-winner Richard Russo discusses his new novel, That Old Cape Magic, in which two generations of academics drawn to Cape Cod. Michael Thomas talks about his new book Man Gone Down, in which he plumbs the brilliant mind of a black man who came of age during Boston’s busing era, marries a white woman, and has an existential crisis in Brooklyn. Modernizing the classic Manhattan screwball comedy, Elinor Lipman surrounds The Family Man–here a sensible gay dad–with a paparazzi-stalked daughter and a needy, newly widowed ex-wife.