Talking About the 10 Best Books of 2021
Earlier this week, several editors at The New York Times got together (virtually) for a live taping of the podcast to discuss the Book Review’s list of the year’s 10 Best Books. (If you haven’t seen t...
3 Dec 20211h 6min
Ann Patchett on ‘These Precious Days’
The novelist and Nashville bookstore owner Ann Patchett’s latest book is a collection of essays, “These Precious Days.” It’s anchored by the long title piece, which originally appeared in Harper’s Mag...
25 Nov 20211h 1min
Ross Douthat on Dealing With Lyme Disease
The New York Times columnist Ross Douthat is used to writing about politics and ideas at play in the broader world, but with his new book, “The Deep Places,” he has written a memoir about his own harr...
19 Nov 202156min
Alan Cumming Talks About ‘Baggage’
The actor and author Alan Cumming was happily surprised that his best-selling first memoir, “Not My Father’s Son,” inspired many readers who had suffered their own childhood traumas. But he was disapp...
12 Nov 20211h 15min
Huma Abedin Talks About 'Both/And'
In her new memoir, “Both/And: A Life in Many Worlds,” Huma Abedin writes about her Muslim faith, her years working alongside Hillary Clinton and, of course, her relationship with her estranged husband...
5 Nov 20211h 18min
Katie Couric Talks About 'Going There'
In her new memoir, “Going There,” Katie Couric writes about her career as a host of “Today and the first woman to anchor the “CBS Evening News” solo. She also, as the title suggests, writes about diff...
29 Okt 20211h 11min
One Factory and the Bigger Story It Tells
In “American Made,” Farah Stockman writes about the downfall of manufacturing employment in the United States by focusing on the lives of workers at one Indianapolis factory that was relocated to Mexi...
22 Okt 20211h 13min
Thomas Mallon on the Career of Jonathan Franzen
Jonathan Franzen’s new novel, “Crossroads,” has generated a lot of discussion, as his work tends to do. The novelist and critic Thomas Mallon, who reviewed “Crossroads” for us, is on the podcast this ...
15 Okt 202159min
