Gilbert Cruz

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We want to hear what you think about the show, so send us an email at thebookreview@nytimes.com. I'm MJ Franklin, in for Gilbert Cruz.

Thanks for listening.

Sometimes that one thing you've been putting off becomes the thing that can change your life, whether it's earning a master's degree, building leadership skills, or preparing to take your career in a new direction.

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So that is The Book Review with The New York Times, uh, and host Gilbert Cruz.

Yeah.

You, you're just recommending that, um, episode in particular?

Yep.

Um, the reviewer for it, Gilbert Cruz, uh, reviewed it in The New York Times.

I mean, it's telling that this review is maybe 1,000 words total.

Um, a third of it is taken up by summarizing what happens in the novel.

When last we spoke, you talked about the idea of the social novel.

We unpacked this a little bit, and you, you know, very clearly stated that you were someone who worked in this tradition and wanted to be someone who worked in this tradition.

Uh, I was not to ask you to repeat yourself.

Please, everyone, go listen to that, that episode.

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I say this as someone who is one of the only people in their family that went to college, and that was always going to be, even though I never liked school much, that was always going to be the path, the way-

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Gilbert Gets a New Job.

Yes.

Thank you, Gilbert.

Everyone does follow alongs.

Good job, Gilbert.

Um, in, in more somber news, on the same day, Neil Gaiman accused of sexual assault-

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The Queen never sold me, but you have sold me on corgis.

I'm Gilbert Cruz, and this is the Book Review for The New York Times.

Our guest today is none other than Stephen King, best-selling horror author and owner of the adorable 10-year-old corgi that you just heard, named Molly.

To quote the main character of Muriel Spark's novel, The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie, "Give me a girl at an impressionable age, and she is mine for life." Well, Stephen King got me, and I think many of us, at an impressionable age.

Original music by Dan Powell and Elisheba Ittoop.

Special thanks to Dalia Hadad.

We wanna hear what you think about the show, so send us an email at thebookreview@nytimes.com. I'm Gilbert Cruz.

Thanks for listening.

But if Gloria Steinem is important to you, spend five and a half hours listening to "An Unexpected Life." Um, then also just wanted to shout out the as yet incomplete project, 'cause we're recording this on a Thursday, but by the time you hear it, it will be done.

Um, over at The New York Times, Gilbert Cruz's first, I think first big project as the canon editor over there is the 100 best TV shows of the 21st century.

Ran back the play that they've used on books and movies and songwriters, uh, and they're doing 20 a day.

It's a, it's a fun list.

And that's what we're here today to do.

I've invited two of my colleagues to the show, Gilbert Cruz, who's our canon editor, and James Poniewozik, our chief TV critic.

Both of them are TV fanatics, but neither of them picked the shows for this list, which means that they are free to debate it as much as they want.

It's Sunday, September 27th.

And they are...

Elena Bergeron, Barbara Chai, Nico Chia, Austin Considine, Shavaz Clark, Gilbert Cruz, Alicia DeSantis, Jeremy Eggner, Daniel Featherston, Meg Felling, Gabrielle Giannardoli, Elisa Shodievkov, Thanks for listening, everybody.

We will talk to you very soon.

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