Welcome to The San Diego Union-Tribune “Bookish” virtual event series which is in partnership with the Southern California News Group and the Bay Area News Group. Hosted by special projects editor and author Samantha Dunn, Bookish is a free, interactive salon-style program on books, authors and the literary life.

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Martyn Burke is a Peabody Award-winning filmmaker and journalist recently featured on the Netflix documentary “Mafia: Most Wanted.” The author of six books, he’ll join us to discuss his new historical novel, The Gossip Columnist – In Nazi-era Germany, a writer harboring a dangerous secret struggles to counter the powerful propaganda of the Third Reich.

Daniel Rachel, musician-turned-bestselling author whose works include Isle of Noises: Conversations with Great British Songwriters, examines rock music’s enduring and problematic fascination with the swastika in his new book This Ain’t Rock ‘n’ Roll: Pop Music, the Swastika and the Third Reich.