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Big New Biographies of Two Big American Lives
Episode 216
David W. Blight talks about “Frederick Douglass: Prophet of Freedom,” and Bob Spitz talks about “Reagan: An American Journey.”
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7 years, 4 months ago
Nana Kwame Adjei-Brenyah on “Friday Black”
Episode 215
“Black people being murdered is unfortunately a constant in this country. Murdered with impunity. It’s something that’s constantly on my mind,” Adjei…
7 years, 5 months ago
Lisa Brennan-Jobs on 'Small Fry'
Episode 214
In a special episode of the Book Review's podcast, taped in front of a live audience, Brennan-Jobs talks about her memoir, and Gary Shteyngart discus…
7 years, 5 months ago
Susan Orlean on a Great Library Fire
Episode 213
Orlean discusses “The Library Book,” and Reid Hoffman talks about “Blitzscaling.”
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7 years, 5 months ago
Barry Jenkins and Meg Wolitzer on Two of This Season's Novels on Screen
Jenkins talks about his adaptation of James Baldwin's "If Beale Street Could Talk," and Wolitzer discusses the adaptation of her novel "The Wife."
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7 years, 5 months ago
Michael Lewis and Tana French on Their Latest Books
Episode 211
Lewis talks about "The Fifth Risk," and French discusses "The Witch Elm."
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7 years, 5 months ago
Kate Atkinson on 'Transcription'
Episode 210
Atkinson talks about her new novel, and Shane Bauer discusses "American Prison."
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7 years, 6 months ago
The End of the ‘Struggle’
Episode 209
Daniel Mendelsohn discusses Karl Ove Knausgaard’s “My Struggle,” and Jill Lepore talks about “These Truths: A History of the United States.”
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7 years, 6 months ago
Esi Edugyan on Her Booker-Shortlisted 'Washington Black'
Episode 208
Edugyan talks about her new novel, and Lisa Margonelli talks about “Underbug: An Obsessive Tale of Termites and Technology.”
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7 years, 6 months ago
A Memoir From the Hard-Working ‘Heartland’
Episode 207
Sarah Smarsh talks about her new book, and Allan Lichtman discusses "The Embattled Vote in America."
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7 years, 6 months ago