Join Pulitzer Prize and MacArthur Fellowship winner Jared Diamond and his sister, novelist and former L.A. Times business columnist Susan Diamond, for a fascinating mutual discussion on the powerful themes and successful strategies they employ as writers. UCLA Professor Jared Diamond is author of the bestsellers Guns, Germs, and Steel, exploring how Europeans and Asians conquered the globe, and Collapse: How Societies Choose to Fail or Succeed, exposing the role of environmental decline in the fall of civilizations. Susan Diamond's popular mystery novel What Goes Around tells the story of a woman murdered by three influential men, and how her closest friends wreak exquisite vengeance on each man. The novel's focus on revenge is just one of the parallels with Jared Diamond's celebrated writings on tribal societies.

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