Salman Rushdie: Luka and the Fire of Life from Forum Network | Book Tour Podcast Podcast

One of the great storytellers of our time, Salman Rusdie, talks about his new book, Luka and the Fire of Life. This novel is a follow up to his modern classic, Haroun and the Sea of Stories. The new novel centers on Luka, Haroun's younger brother, who must save his father from certain doom.

Download the podcast here. See also: Luka and the Fire of Life: A Novel, Midnight's Children: A Novel, The Bedside Guardian (Book 35)

Charlie Rose's Monday, July 5, 2010 conversation with with Lev Grossman

CHARLIE ROSE: Joining me now to talk about summer books is Lev Grossman, author and book critic for "Time" magazine. I’m pleased to have him at this table to introduce us to what you might be reading this summer. So welcome.

LEV GROSSMAN: Thank you.

CHARLIE ROSE: Where do we start? What do you think will be the big commercial success this summer that we’ll see everybody reading on the beach?

LEV GROSSMAN: Well, I believe and also kind of hope that it will be Justin Cronin’s "The Passage." Justin Cronin is probably not a writer who you are intimately familiar with. He is what call is called these days a midlist literary writer who a couple years ago had an inspiration for a horrific vampire apocalypse novel, and he wrote it.

Read the full transcript here. Watch the full Charlie Rose interview here.