Malamud's daughter, Janna Malamud Smith, has just now brought out a book called Private  In Defense of the Personal Life , in which she says that, coming across a sexual scene in one of her father's novels, she put the book down in embarrassment, out of daughterly modesty.
Malamud's daughter, in her new book, talked about the relationship between her and her father's books- and everyone wanted to know about it.