Jane Smiley: "Ten Days in the Hills" (Knopf)

Jane Smiley: "Ten Days in the Hills" (Knopf)

Author Jane Smiley presents her latest novel which takes place in 2003, in Hollywood, at the beginning of the Iraq War. She says it was inspired by her reading of "The Decameron," by Giovanni Boccaccio.

Author Jane Smiley presents her latest novel which takes place in 2003, in Hollywood, at the beginning of the Iraq War. She says it was inspired by her reading of "The Decameron," by Giovanni Boccaccio.

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Jane Smiley

author of four works of nonfiction and more than ten novels, including "A Thousand Acres," which won the Pulitzer Prize

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