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The world's top authors and critics join host Gilbert Cruz and editors at The New York Times Book Review to talk about the week's top books, what we're reading and what's going on in the literary world.
Listen to this podcast in New York Times Audio, our new iOS app for news subscribers. Download now at nytimes.com/audioapp
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Let's Talk About Percival Everett's 'James'
In this spoiler-filled conversation, a panel of Book Review editors discuss Percival Everett's reworking of Mark Twain's “Adventures of Huckleberry Finn."
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Writing About NASA's Most Shocking Moment
The year 1986 was notable for two big disasters: the Chernobyl nuclear accident in the Soviet Union and the explosion of the Space Shuttle Challenger in the United States.
The journalist Adam Higginbotham wrote about Chernobyl in his 2019 book, “Midnight in Chernobyl.” Now he’s back, with a look at the American side of the ledger, in his new book, “Challenger: A True Story of Heroism and Disaster on the Edge of Space.” On this week’s episode, Higginbotham tells host Gilbert Cruz why he was drawn to both disasters, and what the Challenger explosion revealed about weaknesses in America’s space program. -
Fantasy Superstar Leigh Bardugo on Her New Novel
In the world of fantasy fiction, Leigh Bardugo is royalty: Her Grishaverse novels are mainstays on the young adult best-seller list and her adult novels “Ninth House” and “Hell Bent” established her as a force to reckon with in dark academia. This week on the podcast, Gilbert Cruz talks with Bardugo about her first work of historical fiction, "The Familiar."
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Colm Toibin on His Sequel to 'Brooklyn'
Colm Tóibín’s 2009 novel “Brooklyn” told the story of a meek young Irishwoman, Eilis Lacey, who emigrates to New York in the 1950s and slowly begins building a new life for herself. On this week’s podcast, Tóibín talks to Sarah Lyall about the sequel, "Long Island," and how he came to write it.
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Book Club: Dolly Alderton's 'Good Material'
In this week’s episode, MJ Franklin discusses Dolly Alderton's hit book "Good Material" with his colleagues Emily Eakin and Leah Greenblatt. (Caution: Spoilers abound!)
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100 Years of Simon & Schuster
The publisher has gone through a lot of changes since its founding in 1924. Its current chief executive, Jonathan Karp, talks about the company’s history and its hopes for the future.
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Fantastico!
Inspiring for everyone who finds his/her intellectual refuge in literature.
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I first have to admit that I fell in love with Pamela Paul‘s voice when I first heard her on the podcast – personal and warm and full of humor, without ever seeming condescending to anyone.
I have been an enthusiastic regular listener for a long time.
Pamela and her colleagues and guests never fail to enlighten me, and anyone who thinks that literary criticism has to be dry and pedantic should listen to these animated discussions with the writers themselves.
I have heard and read the term “a writer’s writer“ again several times recently — and critics like A. O. Scott may have their own particular take on what that exactly means.
But I told my older brother — like me no spring chicken — that the podcast is helping me become what I will call a “writer’s ideal reader.” By that I mean someone who is very, very alive and alert while reading, constantly having a creative inner dialogue with the author.
“Why did you use this word? Why did you give the character this particular trait? Are you trying to help me see the world in a new and different way?”
Etc., etc.
The podcast helps me become ever more aware of all the choices that writers are making — and the high art that lets the author hide all of these choices so that the reader is left in awe and wonder at this “thing“ that the author has created completely out of her imagination!
Thank you, Pamela and colleagues !!!
PS I could have said something equally complimentary about the way you treat nonfiction books and your discussions with their authors.
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My first podcast and love it!