Words of the Day

The Leonard Lopate Show | May 10, 2010
Word maven Patricia T. (You Send Me) O’Conner navigates our zany English language. Call 212-267-WNYC. Next, we’ll talk to three finalists for the National Book Award for Fiction. Novelists Sarah Shun-lien Bynum (Madeleine is Sleeping), Lily Tuck (The News from Paraguay), and Kate Walbert (Our Kind), give us their inside perspective on this year’s round of finalists. Marcella Hazan shares her advice and wisdom on cooking great Italian food in her new cookbook, Marcella Says. Finally, a former gang member and ex-con, Richard Marinick revisits the dark underworld of South Boston in his first work of fiction, the crime novel Boyos.

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