Tanya Mosley

You said, I'd been so focused on the questions viewers want to ask that

that I never stepped back to consider why they wanted to ask them and what those questions said about our collective understanding of what happened to these women.

Say more about that.

Hmm.

A few times you highlight details from Ronan Farrow's book, Catch and Kill, that has your story, that you paint it as imprecise.

You didn't say it was wrong.

So really what you're saying is your story is filtered through another.

And with that, it's all about interpretation.

Were there any details that were wrong or did you just feel like it didn't quite get to all of the things that you're trying to get to in this book?

You have a daughter now, and she's very young.

But I wonder if you've even thought about how you plan to talk with her about the dangers of sexual assault and how it can happen.

Brooke Nevels, thank you so much for this book, and thank you for talking with us.

Thank you for having me.

Brooke Nevels' new book is Unspeakable Things, Silence, Shame, and the Stories We Choose to Believe.

Lauer has denied her account and called their encounter an affair.

After a short break, book critic Maureen Corrigan reviews Vigil, a new novel by George Saunders.

This is Fresh Air.

Writer George Saunders is a Buddhist whose practice informs his work, most notably his 2017 novel Lincoln and the Bardo, which won the Booker Prize.

Saunders' new novel, Vigil, also explores the Buddhist concept of the bardo.

Our book critic Maureen Corrigan has a review.