Ayelet Waldman discusses her novel Love and Treasure

Elissa Schappell introduces Ayelet Waldman, who discusses her book Love and Treasure.

Ayelet Waldman's latest book is Love and Treasure, a spellbinding novel of contraband masterpieces, tragic love, and the unexpected

legacies of forgotten crimes. It weaves a tale around the fascinating, true history of the Hungarian Gold Train in World War II.

Waldman is also the author of Red Hook Road and the bestseller Bad Mother: A Chronicle of Maternal Crimes, Minor Calamities and

Occasional Moments of Grace. Her novel Love and Other Impossible Pursuits was adapted into a film called The Other Woman starring

Natalie Portman. Waldman's essays have been published in a wide variety of newspapers and magazines, including The New York Times,

Vogue, The Washington Post, and The Wall Street Journal. Her radio commentaries have appeared on "All Things Considered" and "The

California Report."

Elissa Schappell is the author of Blueprints for Building Better Girls and Use Me. She is a contributing editor and the Hot Type book

columnist at Vanity Fair, a former senior editor of The Paris Review, and co-founder and now editor-at-large of Tin House magazine.

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April 28, 2014