Short-story writer Tatyana Tolstaya has published her first novel. It's called The Slynx, published by Houghton Mifflin. Reviewer Alan Cheuse tells us about it.
Alan Cheuse died on July 31, 2015. He had been in a car accident in California earlier in the month. He was 75. Listen to NPR Special Correspondent Susan Stamburg's retrospective on his life and career.