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Liminal Writing with Ces and LeeLiminal Writing: Inspired by Parul Sehgal's line "Pain, it has been said, is the great censor, the eater of words" Episode 4: Liminal Writing - Exploring the Impact of Pain on ExpressionIn this episode of Liminal Writing, the hosts Ces Millado and Lee Moran delve into the emotional depths inspired by a line from an article written by Parul Sehgal in the Sept 2024 edition of The New Yorker: 'Pain, it has been said, is the great censor, the eater of words.' This is Parul's opening line in her review of Garth Greenwell's novel "Small Rain".Ces and Lee share their personal reflections and experiences on how pain affects their ability to express...
2025-01-0314 min
Ordinary Unhappiness60: Love and Work feat. Joseph Earl ThomasAbby and Patrick welcome writer and academic Joseph Earl Thomas, author of the 2023 memoir Sink and a new novel, God Bless You, Otis Spunkmeyer. Set over the course of a single, chaotic day in a North Philadelphia hospital, Thomas’ novel unfolds across a multiplicity of geographies and timelines, and weaves together a dense network of human attachments in all their pleasures and pains. The conversation ranges widely as Abby, Patrick, and Joseph discuss what “trauma” means in popular discourse, literary criticism, and real-world trauma centers; the pleasures of food, video games, and genre expectations; Freud, the family, and authentic human...
2024-07-201h 40
The Archive ProjectZadie Smith, in conversation with Parul Sehgal (REBROADCAST)Zadie Smith, joined by Parul Sehgal, sparkles with humor and insight in this conversation about her latest novel, The Fraud.
2024-06-1000 min
Culture GabfestDamn Dirty ApesOn this week’s show, the hosts begin by dissecting The Kingdom of the Planet of the Apes, the fourth chapter in the Apes franchise. Set “many generations” in the future, the latest installment (directed by Wes Ball and starring Owen Teague) is an undeniably well-crafted summer blockbuster – but does it achieve the level of complexity and thought its predecessors did? (Read Dana’s review for Slate for further analysis.) Then, it’s onto John Mulaney Presents: Everybody’s in LA, a six-part live Netflix special that aired during the streaming giant’s comedy festival. The conceit is thus: Netflix is a Jok...
2024-05-151h 02
Portals of Perception069 - Rebel Wisdom and the Trauma MythMany news platforms today still at times refer to the struggles of life in 2023 as residual pandemic trauma — directly influenced by the painful events beginning in 2020. Is it really fair and accurate to connect today’s behavior and attitudes to a three-year-old ‘trauma’?There’s no doubt the pandemic caused pain and suffering, and trauma, for millions of people directly affected. But as everyday life finds a post-pandemic new normal, is it helpful to our personal and collective healing and rebalance to see ourselves as traumatized? Or has trauma become a convenient rationale and strategy to avoid fully faci...
2024-03-011h 27
The New Yorker Radio HourSheila Heti Talks with Parul Sehgal About “Alphabetical Diaries”The writer Sheila Heti is known for unusual approaches, but her latest work is decidedly experimental. Heti “is one of the most interesting novelists working today,” according to The New Yorker critic Parul Sehgal. “She is ruthlessly contemporary. By which I mean, she’s not interested in writing a novel as a nostalgic exercise. She’s constantly trying to figure out new places fiction can go. New ways that we’re using language, new ways that our minds are evolving.” To write her new book, “Alphabetical Diaries,” Heti combed through a decade’s worth of her own diaries, then alphabetized the sent...
2024-02-0615 min
The Novel TeaSeason 2 Wrap: Global Reads, Trauma Narratives, and International Books to add to your TBRIn this (mostly) spoiler-free* episode, Neha and Shruti reflect on the experience of reading books from around the world. We zoom out and talk on a broad level about narrative voice, villainy, disability representation and its portrayal in literature, and post-colonial writing. We also do a deep dive into trauma narratives - why are they so popular nowadays? What stories are being promoted, and how does this limit the stories being told by authors of color?We had so much to say on these topics, that we just couldn't get to all of it in the...
2023-12-2037 min
The Martin ChroniclesThe Zone of InterestDan Kois (Slate), Parul Sehgal (New Yorker), and Jason Zinoman (New York Times) discuss Martin Amis' 2014 novel about Auschwitz—as well as Jonathan Glazer's 2023 film adaptation.
2023-12-191h 22
Tender Buttons033 Noreen Masud: Psychology of LandscapeIn this episode, we speak to academic, author and broadcaster Noreen Masud about her memoir, A Flat Place. We discuss the psychological, literary and philosophical histories and connotations of flat landscapes. We talk about Masud's experience growing up in Lahore, Pakistan, then moving to the UK and the complexity of language, culture and the post-colonial experience. We discuss what it means to resist the history of landscape writing, from white male colonial stories of nature as redemption and Romantic notions of landscape as revelation or a text to be interpreted 'correctly.' Instead, our conversation considers what it means...
2023-12-1741 min
The Writer and the CriticEpisode 103: After the Forest | I Am Homeless if This is Not My Home
On this last and somewhat longer episode of The Writer and the Critic for 2023, your hosts Kirstyn McDermott and Ian Mond, begin by discussing the television adaptation of Slow Horses as well as the new Mike Flanagan series, The Fall of the House of Usher. No prizes for guessing which one Kirstyn did not like and which one she adored.
The books up for discussion this month are After the Forest by Kell Woods [13:35] and I am Homeless if This is Not My Home by Lorrie Moor [54:20].
This review by Parul Sehgal of...
2023-11-181h 27The Writer and The CriticEpisode 103: After the Forest | I Am Homeless if This is Not My Home
On this last and somewhat longer episode of The Writer and the Critic for 2023, your hosts Kirstyn McDermott and Ian Mond, begin by discussing the television adaptation of Slow Horses as well as the new Mike Flanagan series, The Fall of the House of Usher. No prizes for guessing which one Kirstyn did not like and which one she adored.
The books up for discussion this month are After the Forest by Kell Woods [13:35] and I am Homeless if This is Not My Home by Lorrie Moor [54:20].
This review by Parul Sehgal of...
2023-11-181h 27The Archive ProjectZadie Smith, in conversation with Parul SehgalZadie Smith, joined by Parul Sehgal, sparkles with humor and insight in this conversation about her latest novel, The Fraud.
2023-11-1352 minThe Martin ChroniclesInside StoryDan Kois (Slate), Parul Sehgal (New Yorker), and Jason Zinoman (New York Times) discuss Martin Amis' final novel, 2020's Inside Story, and Amis' death on May 19, 2023.
2023-09-091h 20
Chiangmai Christian FellowshipDoes Suffering Have to Be Traumatic - AudioBig Idea - We live in a world where it seems everyone has become a victim. There is real suffering in the world, and many suffer very real pain and abuse. But never in the history of the world has an entire society embraced trauma like the modern Western world. In an insightful New Yorker article, “The Case Against the Trauma Plot,” Parul Sehgal writes, “In a world infatuated with victimhood, has trauma emerged as a passport to status—our red badge of courage?” In such a climate, almost any life event can be experienced as trauma. Kevin DeYoung writes about this...
2023-09-0350 minThe New Yorker Radio Hour ExtrasThe Origins of “Braiding Sweetgrass”Robin Wall Kimmerer is an unlikely literary star. A botanist by training—a specialist in moss—she spent much of her career at the State University of New York’s College of Environmental Science and Forestry. But, when she was well established in her academic work, having “done the things you need to do to get tenure,” she launched into a different kind of writing; her new style sought to bridge the divide between Western science and Indigenous teachings she had learned, as a member of the Citizen Potawatomi Nation, about the connections between people, the land, plants, and animals. T...
2023-08-2500 minCulture GabfestA Raunchy Joy RideThis week, Slate writer and editor Dan Kois fills in for Julia. The panel begins by breaking down Joy Ride, Adele Lim’s raunchy first feature about four Chinese-American friends. Then, the panel dives into the second season of the reality show Claim to Fame. Finally, they examine the commodification of storytelling, inspired by Parul Sehgal’s essay “The Tyranny of the Tale” for The New Yorker. In the exclusive Slate Plus segment, the panel discusses pickleball, America’s fastest growing sport. Email us at culturefest@slate.com. ...
2023-07-1258 min
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2023-04-021h 46
ThresholdsHafizah GeterHafizah Geter (The Black Period) joins Jordan to discuss her family's influence on her work, the power of memory, being in conversation with the writers you love, and how all of us live in a mix of genres.MENTIONED:Goya's Black Paintings"Fighting Erasure" by Parul SehgalToni Morrison's concept of rememoryFela Kuti, Yussef Lateef, Otis ReddingHafizah Augustus Geter is a Nigerian American writer, poet, and literary agent born in Zaria, Nigeria, and raised in Akron, Ohio, and Columbia, South Carolina. She is the author of the poetry collection Un-American, an NAACP...
2023-02-0141 min
The New Yorker Radio HourDeepti Kapoor Discusses “Age of Vice” with Parul SehgalDeepti Kapoor describes New Delhi, the setting of her novel “Age of Vice” as “extremely beautiful, but also violent. . . . It’s a place where you think you’re gonna get cheated and robbed until someone does something incredibly kind and breaks your heart.” The highly anticipated book, published simultaneously in twenty countries this month, is part crime thriller, part family saga centered on a reckless playboy who wants to break away from his mob family; a young man working as a servant to him; and a naïve young journalist. Kapoor, who spent a decade as a journalist herself, tells Parul S...
2023-01-1716 min
The Closet Writer ChroniclesPrathyush Parasuraman: Making Of A MaverickIt's our mid-season finale and I'm talking to Prathyush Parasuraman! The episode opens with Prathyush talking about what creativity and storytelling means to him. We chat about his career from pursuing a PhD in Economics to a dramatic move to Mumbai to pursue a career in writing. He shares his earliest memories of being creative and his influences. We also talk about books and movies! Later, he talks about his relationship with gender and sexuality. The episode ends with a fun rapid fire and an excerpt from a story written & narrated by Prathyush.
Prathyush...
2022-12-201h 30
Mittelweg 36ErzählenWelche Geschichten erzählt die Gegenwartsliteratur? In der letzten Podcast-Folge des Jahres ziehen wir Bilanz und diskutieren mit Marie Schmidt und Carlos Spoerhase narrative Trends und Konjunkturen, die sich in jüngerer Zeit abgezeichnet haben: Welche Kritik gibt es am Trauma-Plot? Kennt die neuere Literatur noch klassische Liebesgeschichten? Wollen Leser:innen von Belletristik nur gefälliges Entertainment in Form altbekannter Stile und Motive? Und ist der Bedarf an autofiktionaler Literatur irgendwann gedeckt?Marie Schmidt ist Literaturkritikerin bei der Süddeutschen ZeitungCarlos Spoerhase ist Literaturwissenschaftler in München.In der Januar-Folge sprec...
2022-12-2039 min
The Time Capsule Podcast#23 Thank you, therapy.It took me a long time to feel truly comfortable in my own skin. And I never would have gotten here were it not for therapy. There’s a lot of talk about mental health these days, and I frequently question where perhaps we’re now too eager to share our trauma and pursue our personal wellness above our obligations to others. As I wrote in a blog post earlier this year:Popular culture today has, in the words of Parul Sehgal, “elevated trauma from a sign of moral defect to a source of moral authority, even a kind...
2022-12-0753 minThe Martin ChroniclesThe InformationDan Kois (Slate), Parul Sehgal (New Yorker), and Jason Zinoman (New York Times) discuss the ambitious novel that upended Martin Amis' personal, professional, and dental life: The Information. Dan quizzes Parul and Jason about the details of 1995's wildest lit-world gossip, and the panel argues about a novel about literary envy that inspired £500,000 worth of literary envy before it was even published.
2022-11-141h 10
The Book ReviewThe Life and Times of Jann Wenner and Rolling StoneFor the next few months, we’re sharing some of our favorite conversations from the podcast’s archives. This week’s segments first appeared in 2017 and 2019, respectively.Jann Wenner, the co-founder and longtime editor of Rolling Stone magazine, has a new memoir out — but it’s not the first book to tell his life story: In 2017, the journalist Joe Hagan published a biography, “Sticky Fingers,” that Wenner authorized and then repudiated after it included unflattering details. Hagan was a guest on the podcast in 2017, and explained his approach to the book’s most noteworthy revelations: “I made a decision, really...
2022-09-2351 minThe Martin ChroniclesThe Moronic InfernoDan Kois (Slate), Parul Sehgal (New Yorker), and Jason Zinoman (New York Times) leap into the 1980s, when Martin Amis made his living as a hack: a freelance journalist writing about America for British outlets. The Moronic Inferno, published in 1986, collects features about American politics (evangelicism, Reagan, AIDS); profiles of literary and Hollywood stars (Mailer, Spielberg, Bellow); and scathing book reviews. What does Martin Amis see when he looks at America? Why does his harshest criticism of other writers' work sound so much like anxiety about his own? And is he the original Short King?
2022-09-091h 01
Reading the RoomTrauma Plot with CJ ReadsThe Case Against the Trauma Plot by Parul Sehgal: https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2022/01/03/the-case-against-the-trauma-plotSubscribe to CJ Reads: https://www.youtube.com/c/CJReadsEmail: thebarandthebookcase@gmail.comInstagram: https://www.instagram.com/thebarandthebookcase/Goodreads: https://www.goodreads.com/user/show/64819771-jaylenStorygraph: https://app.thestorygraph.com/profile/thebarandthebookcaseTikTok: tiktok.com/@thebarandthebookcase?
2022-07-0551 min
Creepypasta Book ClubCREEPYPASTA BOOK CLUB EPISODE 7: CANDLE COVEThis week, Jonah and Wednesday discuss effective flash fiction, the lost media trend, and the relationship between trauma and pop culture. Grab a snack and hit record, it’s prime time to tune in to: CANDLE COVE!Book Club Community Spotlight: roachprophets.net (https://www.roachprophets.net/)! An immersive horror themesite about cockroaches by Maddy Rolon.If you have small horror or web fiction project you want in the spotlight, Email us! at creepypastabookclub@gmail.com with your name, pronouns and project!The Story: http://ichorfalls.chainsawsuit.comOu...
2022-06-2452 min
Smoke 'Em If You Got 'Em Podcast16. DefamedNancy is reporting from San Francisco, because your roving journos go where the story leads, whether that’s a discount motel room in Fairfax, Virginia, or a 30-room mansion with a view of the Painted Ladies. First order of business is not The Verdict, but Teal Swan and recent episodes of Hulu series The Deep End, whose jaw-dropping scenes of alternate therapy have pushed Sarah from her neutrality. Embedding trauma in your lost followers is dangerous stuff. By the way, Sarah and Nancy agree you can use your sex appeal for the greater good, but that ain’t what Teal...
2022-06-041h 31
Smoke 'Em If You Got 'Em Podcast10: Fabulists!Sarah goes deep on the Duke lacrosse rape scandal — the complicated true story, the troubled woman who filed the claims, the abdication of due process, and the false narrative promoted by key figures including Duke faculty members calling themselves the “Group of 88.” The goal was to exact justice “regardless of the truth.” A bunch of preppy white athletes needed a historical comeuppance, though it didn’t work out like that. “People who lie endorse lies,” Nancy suggests, before giving a big huzzah to a recent New Yorker piece asking why we valorize trauma and what happens when we do. In her ow...
2022-05-171h 41The Martin ChroniclesThe Rachel PapersThe Martin Chronicles debuts with Dan Kois (Slate), Jason Zinoman (New York Times), and Parul Sehgal (New Yorker) discussing Martin Amis' first novel, The Rachel Papers, published in 1973 when Amis was just 24 years old. Why is Charles Highway so disgusting? Why isn't Rachel Noyes Jewish? And how does the son of a successful, controversial novelist secure his entrée into the literary world?
2022-05-051h 06
Tapestry Radio NetworkFilthy Animals, by Brandon Taylor, and Redbreast Sherry Cask editions, Part 2Michael and Ethan continue their discussion of Filthy Animals, by Brandon Taylor, while drinking slightly different iterations of Redbreast Irish whiskey in sherry cask finishes.In this episode:MaEiaRwS: the podcast where nothing gets doneEthan fishes a book with a chair (scintillating audio that the editor chose to leave in)Trawling for referencesThe Case Against the Trauma Plot, by Parul SehgalEmotional Support Trauma Plot, by Brandon TaylorWe talk about what we talk abotWhat is love?The...
2022-04-271h 27
Keep the Channel OpenYanyiThere’s a way in which the end of a serious relationship can shake your entire concept of yourself, and through your grief you have to find yourself again. Yanyi’s latest book of poems, Dream of the Divided Field, braids poems about heartbreak and implied emotional violence with poems about transition and immigration. Each has a similar but distinct sense of a loss of self, a search for self, a yearning for connection and belonging, a sometimes violent disconnection—to a partner, to a place or culture, to oneself and one’s own body. In our conversation, Yanyi and I di...
2022-03-301h 09
Good Writing PodcastWhat Makes a Story Feel Complete? Chekhov, George Saunders, and Occasion for StoryEmily has Ben read an Anton Chekhov short story about a sad lady’s sad day and discuss occasion for story. Why is this the day that you tune into your character’s life? How can we as writers make a story feel complete?
On the way, Ben and Emily get derailed by a difference of opinion sparked by George Saunders’s analysis of the story. Should you consider the reader’s interpretation and anticipate the reader’s reaction to your story as you’re writing? Ben says no. Emily says absolutely yes. Tune in for the pros and con...
2022-02-281h 07
OkuluszOkulusz - Féltékenység az irodalomban, Jo Nesbo: A féltékenység-szakértő és más történetekValószínűleg nincsen olyan ember ezen a bolygón, aki ne lett volna már féltékeny. Parul Sehgal indiai születésű, New York-i irodalomkritikus szavaival élve a féltékenység tulajdonképpen tehát amatőr regényíróvá tesz minket. Ebben az epizódban szó lesz majd drámákról, szépirodalmi alkotásokról, Jo Nesbo-ról, a féltékenység-szakértőről pedig a férjemmel, Zsolttal osztjuk meg egymással a meglátásainkat.
2022-02-2436 min
The Gray Area with Sean IllingA Yellowjackets creator spills his gutsVox's Constance Grady talks with Bart Nickerson, the co-creator of new TV show Yellowjackets, which airs on Showtime. Yellowjackets follows a girls' soccer team, stranded in the Canadian wilderness in 1996 as teenagers — and also the present-day middle-aged women that some of the survivors become. Bart and Constance discuss the role of trauma on television, the process of crafting characters across two timelines, and why the struggle for survival (and cannibalism) fits a story about adolescence.Host: Constance Grady (@constancegrady), staff writer, VoxGuests: Bart Nickerson, co-creator (with Ashley Lyle) of Yellowjackets on ShowtimeRe...
2022-01-2742 min
Know Your EnemyJoan Didion, Conservative (w/ Sam Tanenhaus)When Joan Didion died at the age of 87 in December, her early conservatism figured into a number of obituaries and commentaries, but was rarely discussed in detail. Matt and Sam turned to Sam Tanenhaus, William F. Buckley, Jr.'s biographer and knower of all things National Review, to discuss Didion's early writing for the magazine, her roots in California conservatism, and how her politics changed—and didn't—over the course of her long career. Along the way, they discuss why she loved Barry Goldwater and hated Ronald Reagan, why she finally stopped writing for National Review, and how she compar...
2022-01-131h 39
Political GabfestWell, Obviously It’s Jan. 6Emily Bazelon, John Dickerson and David Plotz discuss Jan. 6, with guest Jamelle Bouie and what to make of omicron's impact on schools, and the Theranos case.Here are some notes and references from this week’s show:Matt Levine for Bloomberg: “Slaying the Blood Unicorn”Wall Street Journal: Theranos and Elizabeth Holmes: History of the WSJ Investigation Emily Bazelon for the New York Times Magazine: “I Write About the Law. But Could I Really Help Free a Prisoner?”
2022-01-061h 10Political GabfestWell, Obviously It’s Jan. 6Emily Bazelon, John Dickerson and David Plotz discuss Jan. 6, with guest Jamelle Bouie and what to make of omicron's impact on schools, and the Theranos case.
Here are some notes and references from this week’s show:
Matt Levine for Bloomberg: “Slaying the Blood Unicorn”
Wall Street Journal: Theranos and Elizabeth Holmes: History of the WSJ Investigation
Emily Bazelon for the New York Times Magazine: “I Write About the Law. But Could I Really Help Free a Prisoner?”
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2022-01-061h 11Culture GabfestStation 2022This week, the panel begins by breaking down just what makes HBO’s pandemic series Station Eleven so successful with Slate’s senior managing producer of podcasts and co-host of Slate’s Working podcast, June Thomas. Next, the panel appreciates the legacy that writer Joan Didion left behind. Finally, the panel rehashes the 2021 edition of Slate’s Movie Club (including Dana’s list of the year’s best films) while discussing the future of film.In Slate Plus, the panel responds to Parul Sehgal’s article “The Case Against the Trauma Plot” in the New Yorker.Email us at cult...
2022-01-0556 min
LongformRerun: #371 Parul Seghal (Dec 2019)Parul Sehgal, a former a book critic for The New York Times, is now a staff writer at The New Yorker.“My job is I think to be honest with the reader and to keep surfacing new ways for me and for other people to think about books. New vocabularies of pleasure and disgust.”Show notes:
parulsehgal.com
@parul_sehgal
Sehgal's New York Times archive
“Mothers of Invention: A Group of Authors Finds New Narrative Possibilities in Parenthood” (Bookforum • 2015)
“In Letters to the World, a New Wave of Memoirs Draws on the Intimate” (New York Times •...
2021-12-2259 min
מקום טוב לרגשותמקום טוב לרגשות | #2 | אברהם טלבשיחה אישית ופתוחה על קנאה.על מה היא מאפשרת ואיפה היא מגבילה. על היכולת להרגיש כאב ומה המחיר שזה גובהמה זה מבחינתו קשר קרוב ולמה הוא מצפה כשהוא שואל משהו לשלומו.למה אנשים בוחרים לשתף אותו בסודות שלהם גם אנשים שהוא בקושי מכיר. הכנות של אברהם טל כובשת. היכולת שלו לייצר אינטימיות היא מדהימה וזו הייתה שיחה שנתנה מקום ממש טוב לרגשות. אפילו עכשיו בימי הקורונה אני שומעת אנשים שעושים השוואות לאחרים. איך זה שלא בניתי לוז לילדים שלי ? כולם עם סדר יום מלא פעיליות חוץ ממני...איך זה שאני לא מייצרת כלום ? כולם בעשיה חוץ ממני ... למה אני במצב רוח ירוד וכולם כאלה קולים ? הקנאה יכולה להוביל אותנו לתחושת ערך נמוך לדיכדוך לביקורת על עצמינו אבל אם היא במינון עדין היא יכולה דווקא לגרום להשתקקות , להנעה לפעולה , למוטיבציה להשיג את מה שחשוב לנו. מצרפת כתבה על פרופסור ריצ'ארד סמית שמדבר דווקא על הכוח של הקנאה ואיך היא יכולה לשרת אותנו https://www.globes.co.il/news/article.aspx?did=1001271462 והרצאת טד מעניינת שכולה שיר הלל לקנאהhttps://www.ted.com/talks/parul_sehgal_an_ode_to_envy/transcript?language=he#t-738750 במה אתם מקנאים ?
2021-08-3148 min
fiction/non/fictionWhy Be A Critic? Laura Miller on Reading, Listening to, and Writing About BooksAcclaimed Slate books and culture columnist Laura Miller joins co-hosts Whitney Terrell and V.V. Ganeshananthan to discuss the ins and outs of being a critic. Miller discusses a recent piece about diversity and representation in audiobook narration. She also talks about reading for pleasure versus work, and why, when she’s not reviewing, she often finds herself listening to authors.To hear the full episode, subscribe through iTunes, Google Play, Stitcher, Spotify, or your favorite podcast app (include the forward slashes when searching). You can also listen by streaming from the player below. Check out video ex...
2021-07-291h 00The Book ReviewAn Outsider Finds Suspense in HollywoodThe actress and thriller writer Catherine Steadman visits the podcast this week to talk about “The Disappearing Act,” her new suspense novel about the absurdities of Hollywood. Steadman was drawn to the idea of setting a story during pilot season, when actors from all over the world descend on Los Angeles once a year and compete for lead roles in new TV series.“It’s a sort of competitive world where friendships are made really quickly, and people will find their nemesis — someone who looks just like them who keeps snatching away parts from them,” she says. “It’s a very st...
2021-07-0258 min
Get BookedIt's Sexy FlourAmanda and Jenn discuss books set in Polynesia and Ireland, aristocratic mysteries, and more in this week’s episode of Get Booked.Follow the podcast via RSS, Apple Podcasts, Spotify, or Stitcher.This content contains affiliate links. When you buy through these links, we may earn an affiliate commission.For listener feedback and questions, as well as a complete list of books discussed in this episode, visit our website.FeedbackDetransition, Baby by Torrey Peters (rec’d by Elizabeth)Books DiscussedThe Vanishing Half by Brit...
2021-07-0150 minThe Book ReviewReimagining the Aftermath of a Wartime AttackFrancis Spufford’s new novel, “Light Perpetual,” is rooted in a real event: the rocket attack on a Woolworth’s in London, killing 168 people, toward the end of World War II. Spufford fictionalizes the tragedy and invents five children who survive it, trailing them through the ensuing decades to discover all they might have done and seen if they had lived. On this week’s podcast, Spufford says that he settled on this real-life incident for intentionally arbitrary reasons.“The ordinariness is kind of the point,” he says. “I wanted something that was terrible but not exceptional. Something which...
2021-06-0449 minThe Book ReviewMichael Lewis on 'The Premonition'In 2018, Michael Lewis published “The Fifth Risk,” which argued, in short, that the federal government was underprepared for a variety of disaster scenarios. Guess what his new book is about? Lewis visits the podcast this week to discuss “The Premonition,” which recounts the initial response to the coronavirus pandemic.“It wasn’t just Trump,” Lewis says. “Trump made everything worse. But there had ben changes in the American government, and changes in particular at the C.D.C., that made them less and less capable of actually controlling disease and more and more like a fine academic institution that...
2021-05-071h 05The Book ReviewBlake Bailey on Writing His Life of Philip RothBlake Bailey’s long-awaited biography of Philip Roth has generated renewed conversation about the life and work of the towering American novelist who died at 85 in 2018. Bailey visits the podcast this week to take part in that conversation himself.“Most of Philip’s life was spent in this little cottage in the woods of Connecticut, standing at a desk and living inside his head 12 hours a day,” Bailey says. “This is not unique to Philip. This is a phenomenon that I experienced vis-à-vis my other subjects, too. They don’t see people very clearly. They sort of see themse...
2021-04-091h 01The Book ReviewTillie Olsen and the Barriers to CreativityA.O. Scott, The Times’s co-chief film critic, returns to the Book Review’s podcast this week to discuss the work of Tillie Olsen, the latest subject in his essay series The Americans, about writers who give a sense of the country’s complex identity. Olsen, who died in 2007 at 94, was known best as the author of “Tell Me a Riddle,” a collection of three short stories and a novella published in 1961. She also wrote rigorous depictions of working-class families, conveying the costs of living for burdened mothers, wives and daughters.“I think people should read her now for...
2021-03-261h 03
Grand TamashaSonia Faleiro on Life and Death in India’s HeartlandOne night in the summer of 2014, two teenage girls living in a remote village in the north Indian state of Uttar Pradesh went missing. Hours later, they were found dead and hanging from a tree in a mango orchard. A media frenzy ensued that propelled the case to the front pages of national newspapers and prime time cable news. It was quickly decided that this was another clear-cut case of rape and murder in India’s heartland. A haunting new book, The Good Girls: An Ordinary Killing, by the author Sonia Faleiro reveals that the trut...
2021-02-2440 minThe Book ReviewThis Land Is Whose Land?When Simon Winchester takes on a big subject, he takes on a big subject. His new book, “Land: How the Hunger for Ownership Shaped the Modern World,” travels through centuries and to places like Ukraine, New Zealand, Scotland, the United States and elsewhere. On this week’s podcast, he talks about the history of private land ownership and a few of the many aspects of this history that caught his attention.“The whole notion of trespass I find absolutely fascinating,” Winchester says. “There is this pervasive feeling — it’s not uniquely American, but it is powerfully American — that once you own...
2021-02-121h 01The Book ReviewJames Comey and Truth in GovernmentJames Comey’s “Saving Justice,” arrives three years after his first book, “A Higher Loyalty.” Joe Klein reviews it for us, and visits the podcast this week to discuss, among other subjects, how the new book is different from the first.“It doesn’t differ very much at all, actually,” Klein says, “except for one thing: He rehearses all of the confrontations he had with Donald Trump in both books, but in the second book he places that in the context of the need for truth and transparency in government, which I think is a valuable thing. The book is a repe...
2021-01-151h 03
A Phone Call From PaulA Conversation with Parul SehgalParul Sehgal is a book critic at The New York Times. She was previously a columnist and senior editor at The New York Times Book Review. Her work has appeared in the Atlantic, Slate, Bookforum, The New Yorker, Tin House, and The Literary Review, among other publications, and she was awarded the Nona Balakian Award from the National Book Critics Circle for her criticism. She has been a featured speaker at TED and teaches at Columbia University and the Center for the Humanities at CUNY. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
2020-07-0255 min
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2020-05-0901 min
The BookstoreVery Difficult or Very HardWe discuss how we feel about movie adaptations of books, and Becca quizzes Corinne on some Oscar winners. But before that, we recommend some articles of interest regarding American Dirt: Myriam Gurba David Bowles David Schmidt Parul Sehgal
2020-01-2836 min
The Book ReviewTimes Critics Talk About Their Year-End ListsDwight Garner, Parul Sehgal and Jennifer Szalai on the top books of 2019.
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2019-12-2041 min
LongformEpisode 371: Parul SehgalParul Sehgal is a book critic for The New York Times.
“I write about books, I review books, but in a sense, to do my job at a newspaper also puts that pressure on a piece to say: why should you read or care about this? You’re trying to tweeze out what is newsworthy, what is interesting, what is vital about this book….My job is I think to be honest with the reader and to keep surfacing new ways for me and for other people to think about books. New vocabularies of pleasure and disgust.”
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2019-12-0459 min
The Book ReviewToni Morrison's LegacyWesley Morris, Parul Sehgal and Dwight Garner talk about Morrison’s career, and Sarah M. Broom talks about her debut memoir, “The Yellow House.”
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2019-08-091h 07
London Review Bookshop PodcastRace and Poetry Reviewing: Kayo Chingonyi, Bhanu Kapil, Ilya Kaminsky and Parul Sehgalhttp://media.londonreviewbookshop.co.uk/2019-06-21-race-and-poetry-event.mp3An evening of discussion and poetry readings with poets Kayo Chingonyi, Bhanu Kapil, Ilya Kaminsky and New York Times book critic Parul Sehgal. This lively event brings together eminent poets, critics and editors for a public panel discussion on diversity and the current state of poetry reviewing culture in the UK and the US, followed by poetry readings from Kayo Chingonyi and Bhanu Kapil. The panel event featured a transatlantic discussion of race and poetry reviewing with Ilya Kaminsky, Kayo Chingonyi and Parul Sehgal, chaired by Sandeep Parmar and introduced by Sarah Howe. This event also launched the 2019 report on ‘Th...
2019-07-0259 min
TK with James Scott: A Writing, Reading, & Books PodcastRyan Chapman & Ira SilverbergSatire can be the last, best way to critique difficult topics, and Ryan Chapman's blistering novel, RIOTS I HAVE KNOWN, takes on, among other things, incarceration, literature's standing in the culture, and intellectual pretension. He and James talk novellas, using contemporary cultural references, writing to a melody, and publishing a book after working in the field. Plus, literary advocate, legend, and Ryan's editor, Ira Silverberg. - Ryan Chapman: https://www.simonandschuster.com/authors/Ryan-Chapman/140796679 Buy RIOTS I HAVE KNOWN: https://www.indiebound.org/book/9781501197307 Ryan and James discuss: Joseph Helle...
2019-05-281h 36
Slate ConversationsParul SehgalParul Sehgal is a book critic at the New York Times. She sits down with Isaac Chotiner to discuss the daily life of a book reviewer, looking hard at the novels of very bad men, and the current state of cultural criticism. Email: ask@slate.comTwitter: @IHaveToAskPod Podcast production by Max Jacobs. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
2018-04-0629 min
Slate BooksABC: Her Body and Other Parties by Carmen Maria MachadoKaty Waldman, Parul Sehgal, and Laura Bennett discuss Her Body and Other Parties by Carmen Maria Machado. This episode is Katy's last episode as host of the Audio Book Club, but watch this space for more about the future of the show. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
2018-01-2949 minSlate BooksABC: Swing Time by Zadie SmithSlate's Katy Waldman and Laura Miller discuss Zadie Smith's new novel, Swing Time with The New York Time's Parul Sehgal.The Slate Audio Book Club is brought to you by ThirdLove, the lingerie brand using real women’s measurements to design better-fitting bras. Try one of their best-selling bras for free for 30 days by visiting thirdlove.com/bookclubAnd by Blue Apron. Create delicious, home-cooked meals with fresh ingredients delivered right to your door. Get your first THREE meals FREE when you go to BlueApron.com/Audioclub. Learn more about your ad...
2017-03-1359 minSlate BooksABC: All the Single LadiesSlate critic, Katy Waldman, is joined by Parul Sehgal of the New York Times Book Review and culture critic, Meghan O'Rourke, to discuss Rebecca Traister's All the Single Ladies. Next month, Slate's Audio Book Club will discuss The Girls by Emma Cline. Read the book and join us for a conversation in August! Slate's Audio Book Club is brought to you by Audible.com, with more than 180,000 audiobooks and spoken-word audio products. Get a free 30-day trial and a free audiobook at Audible.com/AudioBookClub Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
2016-07-1650 min
The Book ReviewInside The New York Times Book Review: The Life of Helen Gurley BrownThis week, Moira Weigel discusses new biographies of Helen Gurley Brown; Alexandra Alter has news from the publishing world; Juliet Nicolson talks about “A House Full of Daughters”; and Gregory Cowles and Parul Sehgal on what people are reading. Pamela Paul is the host.
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2016-07-1543 min
The Book ReviewInside The New York Times Book Review: ‘You’ll Grow Out of It’This week, Jessi Klein discusses her new essay collection; Alexandra Alter has news from the publishing world; Antonio García Martinez talks about “Chaos Monkeys”; and Gregory Cowles and Parul Sehgal on what people are reading. Pamela Paul is the host.
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2016-07-1045 min
The Book ReviewInside The New York Times Book Review: ‘Hogs Wild’This week, Ian Frazier talks about “Hogs Wild”; Alexandra Alter has news from the publishing world; Barry Friedman discusses two new books about law enforcement; and John Williams, Gregory Cowles and Parul Sehgal on what people are reading. Pamela Paul is the host.
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2016-07-0144 min
The Book ReviewInside The New York Times Book Review: Why Populism Now?This week, Sam Tanenhaus talks about new political books; Alexandra Alter has news from the publishing world; Calvin Trillin discusses “Jackson, 1964”; listeners share some of their favorite summer reading memories; and Gregory Cowles and Parul Sehgal on what people are reading. Pamela Paul is the host.
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2016-06-2453 min
The Book ReviewInside The New York Times Book Review: Susan Faludi’s ‘In the Darkroom’This week, Susan Faludi discusses her new memoir, “In the Darkroom”; Alexandra Alter has news from the publishing world; James Lee McDonough talks about his new biography of William Tecumseh Sherman; listeners share some of their favorite summer reading memories; and Gregory Cowles and Parul Sehgal on what people are reading. Pamela Paul is the host.
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2016-06-1745 min
The Book ReviewInside The New York Times Book Review: ‘First Dads’This week, Joshua Kendall talks about “First Dads”; Alexandra Alter has news from the publishing world; Judith Warner discusses “The End of American Childhood”; and Gregory Cowles and Parul Sehgal talk about what people are reading. Pamela Paul is the host.
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2016-06-1041 min
The Book ReviewInside The New York Times Book Review: ‘Before the Fall’This week, Noah Hawley talks about “Before the Fall”; Andrew Solomon discusses “Far and Away”; Marjorie Ingall on the season’s new Y.A. novels; and Parul Sehgal and Gregory Cowles talk about what people are reading. Pamela Paul is the host.
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2016-06-0346 min
The Book ReviewInside The New York Times Book Review: ‘Secondhand Time: The Last of the Soviets’This week, Adam Hochschild talks about Svetlana Alexievich’s “Secondhand Time”; Alexandra Alter has news from the publishing world; Stephanie Danler discusses her debut novel, “Sweetbitter”; Jojo Moyes talks about the film adaptation of her novel “Me Before You”; and Gregory Cowles and Parul Sehgal talk about what people are reading. Pamela Paul is the host.
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2016-05-2751 min
The Book ReviewInside The New York Times Book Review: ‘The Romanovs’This week, Simon Sebag Montefiore discusses his new history of the Romanovs; Alexandra Alter has news from the publishing world; Laura Miller talks about new audiobooks of childhood favorites; and Parul Sehgal and Gregory Cowles discuss what people are reading. Pamela Paul is the host.
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2016-05-2342 min
The Book ReviewInside The New York Times Book Review: ‘The Romanovs’This week, Simon Sebag Montefiore discusses his new history of the Romanovs; Alexandra Alter has news from the publishing world; Laura Miller talks about new audiobooks of childhood favorites; and Parul Sehgal and Gregory Cowles discuss what people are reading. Pamela Paul is the host.
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2016-05-2042 min
The Book ReviewInside The New York Times Book Review: ‘The Gene’Siddhartha Mukherjee talks about “The Gene”; Alexandra Alter has news from the publishing world; Jennifer Szalai discusses two books about taste; and Gregory Cowles and Parul Sehgal talk about what people are reading.
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2016-05-1345 min
The Book ReviewInside The New York Times Book Review: ‘Pumpkinflowers’This week, Matti Friedman discusses “Pumpkinflowers: A Soldier’s Story”; Alexandra Alter has news from the publishing world; Judith Shulevitz talks about Angela Duckworth’s “Grit”; Sherman Alexie and Yuyi Morales discuss “Thunder Boy Jr.”; and Gregory Cowles and Parul Sehgal discuss what people are reading.
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2016-05-0655 min
The Book ReviewInside The New York Times Book Review: ‘Listen, Liberal’Thomas Frank talks about “Listen, Liberal”; Lydia Millet discusses her new novel, “Sweet Lamb of Heaven”; and Parul Sehgal and Gregory Cowles talk about what people are reading. Pamela Paul is the host.
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2016-04-2932 min
The Book ReviewInside The New York Times Book Review: ‘Old Age: A Beginner’s Guide’This week, Michael Kinsley discusses “Old Age”; Alexandra Alter has news from the literary world; Eric Fair talks about “Consequence”; Viet Thanh Nguyen discusses his Pulitzer Prize-winning novel; and Gregory Cowles and Parul Sehgal talk about what people are reading. Pamela Paul is the host.
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2016-04-2240 minSlate BooksABC: When Breath Becomes AirCritics Katy Waldman, Parul Sehgal, and Meghan O'Rourke discuss Paul Kalanithi's bestselling memoir, When Breath Becomes Air. Join us next month to discuss A Hologram for the King by Dave Egger's.Slate's Audio Book Club is brought to you by Fun Home, winner of five Tony Awards including Best Musical. The Associated Press calls this groundbreaking production, “The best of what Broadway can do.” Get tickets at FunHomeBroadway.com.And by Audible.com, with more than 180,000 audiobooks and spoken-word audio products. Get a free 30-day trial and a free audiobook at AudiblePodcast.com/ABC.
2016-04-0940 min
The Book ReviewInside The New York Times Book Review: ‘West of Eden’This week, Maria Russo discusses Jean Stein’s “West of Eden,” A. O. Scott talks about “Better Living Through Criticism” and Parul Sehgal has best-seller news. Pamela Paul is the host.
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2016-02-1939 minSlate BooksABC: PuritySlate critic, Katy Waldman, is joined by Parul Sehgal of the New York Times Book Review and culture critic, Meghan O'Rourke, to discuss Jonathan Franzen's Dickensian novel – Purity.
Next month, Slate's Audio Book Club will discuss A Manual for Cleaning Women by Lucia Berlin. Read the book and join us for a conversation in February!
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2016-01-1445 min
The Book ReviewInside The New York Times Book Review: The Year in PoetryThis week, Parul Sehgal and Gregory Cowles discuss the year in poetry; Alexandra Alter has news from the publishing world; George Saunders talks about children’s books; and Cowles has best-seller news. Pamela Paul is the host.
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2015-12-2439 min
The Book ReviewInside The New York Times Book Review: ‘Doomed to Succeed”This week, Scott Anderson discusses “Doomed to Succeed”; Alexandra Alter has news from the literary world; Roger Lowenstein talks about “America’s Bank”; and Gregory Cowles has best-seller news. Parul Sehgal, filling in for Pamela Paul, is the host.
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2015-10-2530 min
The Book ReviewInside The New York Times Book Review: Richard McGuire’s ‘Here’This week, Richard McGuire talks about “Here”; John Williams has news from the literary world and feedback from readers; Simon Parkin discusses two new books about gaming; and Gregory Cowles has best-seller news. Parul Sehgal, filling in for Pamela Paul, is the host.
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2015-10-1633 min
The Book ReviewInside The New York Times Book Review: ‘NeuroTribes’This week, Steve Silberman talks about “NeuroTribes” and autism; Alexandra Alter has news from the publishing world; Elisabeth Egan discusses “A Window Opens”; questions from readers; Maria Russo talks about the season’s children’s books; and Parul Sehgal has best-seller news. Pamela Paul is the host.
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2015-08-2152 min
The Book ReviewInside The New York Times Book Review: Shakespeare in LoveThis week, Alan Riding discusses two new books about Shakespeare’s women characters and his personal life; Parul Sehgal and John Williams have news from the literary world; Michelle Orange talks about five new essay collections; and Gregory Cowles has best-seller news. Pamela Paul is the host.
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2015-05-2236 min
The Book ReviewInside The New York Times Book Review: ‘H Is for Hawk’This week, Vicki Constantine Croke discusses Heather Macdonald’s “H Is for Hawk”; Parul Sehgal has news from the literary world; John Williams talks about Nick Hornby’s “Funny Girl”; and Gregory Cowles has best-seller news. Pamela Paul is the host.
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2015-02-2027 minSlate BooksABC: My Brilliant FriendSlate critics Katy Waldman, David Haglund, and Parul Sehgal discuss the first in Elena Ferrante's Neapolitan trilogy. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
2015-01-0946 min
The Book ReviewInside The New York Times Book Review: Charles D’Ambrosio’s ‘Loitering’This week, Phillip Lopate discusses Charles D’Ambrosio’s “Loitering”; Alexandra Alter has news from the publishing world; Sven Beckert talks about “Empire of Cotton”; and Gregory Cowles has best-seller news. Parul Sehgal is the host, filling in for Pamela Paul.
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2015-01-0237 min
The Book ReviewInside The New York Times Book Review: A Rare View of North KoreaThis week, Suki Kim talks about “Without You, There Is No Us”; Parul Sehgal and John Williams have news from the literary world; Meghan Daum discusses “The Unspeakable”; and Gregory Cowles has best-seller news. Pamela Paul is the host.
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2014-12-1245 minSlate BooksABC: Cheryl Strayed's WildSlate critics Dan Kois, Parul Sehgal, and Katy Waldman discuss Cheryl Strayed's memoir. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
2014-10-1044 minSlate BooksThe Audio Book Club: My StruggleSlate's Dan Kois and David Haglund talk with New York Times Book Review editor Parul Sehgal about Book 1 of Karl Ove Knausgaard's 6-volume autobiographical epic. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
2014-07-1156 min
TED EducationParul Sehgal: An ode to envyWhat is jealousy? What drives it, and why do we secretly love it? No study has ever been able to capture its “loneliness, longevity, grim thrill” -- that is, says Parul Sehgal, except for fiction. In an eloquent meditation she scours pages from literature to show how jealousy is not so different from a quest for knowledge. A video of this talk
2013-10-2513 minTED EducationParul Sehgal: An ode to envyWhat is jealousy? What drives it, and why do we secretly love it? No study has ever been able to capture its “loneliness, longevity, grim thrill” -- that is, says Parul Sehgal, except for fiction. In an eloquent meditation she scours pages from literature to show how jealousy is not so different from a quest for knowledge. A video of this talk
2013-10-2513 min
TEDTalks 社会与文化嫉妒的颂歌 | Parul Sehgal什么是嫉妒？是什么驱使了它？为何我们秘密地爱着它？ 帕鲁尔·塞加尔说，还未有任何研究捕获了嫉妒的“寂寞，长久，冷酷的刺激”，除了小说。在她雄辩而发人深省的演讲中，塞加尔从文学作品中搜寻出些许片段，来说明嫉妒与对知识的追寻或有共同之处。Translated by Daisy HongReviewed by Ho Man Li
2013-10-2313 min