NYT: Book Review for 12/10/2010 from NYT Book Review

This week, conversation with two writers who made the Book Review's Top Ten Best Books of 2010: Jennifer Homans, author of "Apollo's Angels: A History of Ballet", and Siddhartha Mukherjee, who wrote "Emperor of All Maladies: A Biography of Cancer"; Julie Bosman has notes from the field; and Jennifer Schuessler has best-seller news. Sam Tanenhaus is the host.

Download the podcast here. The Emperor of All Maladies: A Biography of Cancer is also on the list.

Elizabeth Edwards and the Arc of Cancer from On Point with Tom Ashbrook Podcast

Elizabeth Edwards has died after a very public battle with cancer. We look at stories of cancer in America. Guests: Eleanor Clift, contributing editor to Newsweek and author of, "Two Weeks of Life: A Memoir of Love, Death, and Politics" ; Siddhartha Mukherjee, cancer physician and author of the new book, "The Emperor of All Maladies: A Biography of Cancer."

Download the podcast here. See also: Two Weeks of Life: A Memoir of Love, Death, and Politics, The Emperor of All Maladies: A Biography of Cancer

An Oncologist Writes 'A Biography Of Cancer' from NPR Podcast Fresh Air

Oncologist Siddhartha Mukherjee was treating one of his patients, a woman with advanced abdominal cancer who had relapsed multiple times, when she asked him what seemed like a simple question. "She said, 'I'm willing to go on, but before I go on, I need to know what it is I'm battling,' " Mukherjee tells NPR's Terry Gross. But, as Mukherjee explains, describing his patient's illness wasn't so simple. Defining cancer, he says, is something doctors and scientists have been struggling to do since the disease's first documented appearance thousands of years ago

Download the podcast here. As usual, the NPR Fresh Air website and webpage for this story, is full featured, and definitely worth the thorough read-through. See also: Unbroken: A World War II Story of Survival, Resilience, and Redemption, Anticancer, A New Way of Life, New Edition, Cancer: 50 Essential Things to Do: Third Edition, Beating Cancer with Nutrition, book with CD