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A panel of journalists joins Diane for review and analysis of the week’s top national and international news stories.
David Brooks, author of "Bobos in Paradise" and "On Paradise Drive," writes an Op-Ed column for The New York Times.
Karen Tumulty, reporter, "Time" magazine
David Corn, Washington editor of "The Nation" and author of several books, most recently, "Hubris: The Inside Story of Spin, Scandal, and the Selling of the Iraq War." He blogs at David Corn.com
Guest host: Susan Page
Novelist Ann Patchett discusses her popular novel, which was inspired in part by the 1996 hostage crisis at the Japanese ambassadorial residence in Lima, Peru. Now available in paperback, this work recently won the Penn/Faulkner Award.
Ann Patchett, also author of the novels "The Patron Saint of Liars," "Taft," "The Magician's Assistant," and "Bel Canto," which won the Pen/Faulkner Award.