Sara Nelson was interviewed in the offices of Publishers Weekly about the magazine and about the new books for the season. She talked about books including The Year of Magical Thinking by Joan Didion, Dream Boogie by Peter Guralnick, Symptoms of Withdrawal by Christopher Kennedy Lawford, The Beatles by Bob Spitz, and The Last True Story I’ll Ever Tell by John Crawford.

Nelson is also the author of So Many Books, So Little Time: Year of Passionate Reading, published by Putnam Publishing Group.