David Mitchell readies another novel

Acclaimed author David Mitchell is in town this week as part of the lineup surrounding the opening of the new Northrop at the University of Minnesota. The man behind "Cloud Atlas" and "The Thousand Autumns of Jacob de Zoet" is getting ready to publish a new book in September, "The Bone Clocks." Marianne Combs talks to Mitchell about the new book and the recurring themes of survival and morality.

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