Booksplus - Full Program Podcast

From Los Angeles to Antarctica, this week The Bookshelf offers up stories that combine history, gossip, scandal and noirish nightmare in James Ellroy's Widespread Panic; gothic, even melodramatic, versions of pain and damage and rage, in Lisa Taddeo's Animal; and clean cold crisis that moves towards a poetic jumble of miscommunication, in Jon McGregor's Lean Fall Stand