Joanna Smith Rakoff, author of A Fortunate Age, helps our host Emily Gould recreate the late 90s by cooking up the infamous harissa egg scramble once found at long-lost Williamsburg institution Oznot's. (It is an exceptional hangover helper.) Cooking the Books-the Internet's only cooking and book chat show!?-is directed by Valerie Temple and shot and edited by Andrew Gauthier. (PS Our in-house harissa recipe is here!)

The reviews are coming in for Joanna Smith Rakoff's new novel, "A Fortunate Age," which is not named 'Brooklyn': The novel ably captures the zeitgeist, with venture capitalists financing magazines headed by M.I.T. prodigies and young people worrying about the gentrification of their Brooklyn neighborhoods. But where [Mary] McCarthy's histrionic rich girls enabled her to skewer contemporary mores, Smith Rakoff's are almost indistinguishable in their blandness.