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Sep 24, 2026
Liza VealeHOST
Rachel is a staff writer at The New Yorker, where she writes about psychology, medical ethics, and criminal justice, among other subjects.
Liza VealeHOST
Her last book, Strangers to Ourselves, Unsettled Minds and the Stories that Make Us, was a finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award and a New York Times bestseller.
Liza VealeHOST
Her latest book is called You Won't Get Free of It, Stories of Mothers and Daughters.
Liza VealeHOST
Rachel is not a clinician or a psychoanalytic scholar, but she's kind of honorary, whether she wants to be claimed by us or not.
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It was immediately shortlisted for the Booker Prize.
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It swept the international awards circuit, winning the Los Angeles Times Book Prize for Fiction, the W.H. Smith Literary Award, the National Book Critics Circle Award.
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It became a defining cultural touchstone of the decade.
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And this is exactly why I constantly emphasize the indispensable necessity of the outside eye in any creative or professional endeavor.
Rebecca SchinskyHOST
He sent the great, the late, great editor Sonny Mehta in his place.
Rebecca SchinskyHOST
Uh, The Road was also a finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award.
Rebecca SchinskyHOST
Kiran Desai's The Inheritance of Loss won that year.
Rebecca SchinskyHOST
Of course, a, a beloved book by many people.
Jeff O'NeillHOST
Yeah.
Jeff O'NeillHOST
I- I don't know.
Jeff O'NeillHOST
This is one of those cases where The Road laughs at the idea that the National Book Critics Circle Award win or not matters to it.
Rebecca SchinskyHOST
Right, right.
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And it's also what leads us to making art or making anything that we can that can celebrate it, witness it, and say at the very least, look, you know, listen.
Helena de GrootHOST
Ada Limon is the author of seven books of poetry, including Bright Dead Things, which was named a finalist for the National Book Award, the National Book Critics Circle Award, and the Kingsley Tufts Award, The Hurting Kind, which was a finalist for the Griffin Prize, and The Carrying, which won the National Books Critics Circle Award and was a finalist for the Penn-Jean Stein Book Award, Startlement, New and Selected Poems, and her pamphlet Against Breaking on the Power of Poetry, adapted from the speech she gave at the Library of Congress at the end of her two terms as Poet Laureate of the United States.
Helena de GrootHOST
Ada Limon was also awarded a MacArthur Fellowship, a Guggenheim Fellowship, and was named a 2024 Time Magazine Woman of the Year.
Helena de GrootHOST
To find out more, check out the Poetry Foundation website.
Clint SmithHOST
It became the first book written by a Black American author to be selected by the Book of the Month Club since Richard Wright's native son in the 1940s.
Clint SmithHOST
She received a National Book Critics Circle Award, along with many other accolades.
Clint SmithHOST
The book became a staple of American literature in classrooms, among academics, and for general readers.
Clint SmithHOST
This success encouraged Morrison to become a full-time writer.
Ted RallHOST
I've been reading the book for the last week.
Ted RallHOST
He's the author of Why This World, a biography of Clarice Lispector, a finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award, and a New York Times Notable Book of 2009.
Ted RallHOST
I will admit I'm jealous of that last one.
Ted RallHOST
For his work bringing Clarice Lispector to international prominence, he received Brazil's first state prize for cultural diplomacy.
David NaimonHOST
A Brief History also won the American Book Award.
David NaimonHOST
the Anisfield-Wolf Book Award, the OCM Bocas Prize for Caribbean Literature, and the Minnesota Book Award, as well as being a finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award.
David NaimonHOST
Marlon James has a degree in language and literature from the University of the West Indies, an MFA in creative writing from Wilkes University, and teaches writing at Macalester College in Minneapolis, Minnesota.
David NaimonHOST
He's the author of the novel The Book of Night Women, which won the Dayton Literary Peace Prize and the Minnesota Book Award, and John Crowe's Devil, a New York Times Editor's Choice and a finalist for the Commonwealth Writers' Prize.
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Parker will be in conversation with Clint Smith, a staff writer at The Atlantic.
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He is the author of narrative nonfiction book How the World Has Passed, which won the 2021 National Books Critics Circle Award for nonfiction and was a New York Times bestseller.
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And he is the author of poetry collections Counting Descent and Above Ground.
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Please give our guests a round of applause.
Leslie HoppingHOST
This book came out in June of 2026 and is a book of short stories.
Leslie HoppingHOST
So Ruth Ozeki wrote A Tale for the Time Being in 2013, which is a finalist for the Booker Prize, National Book Critics Circle Award winner, and won the Los Angeles Times Book Prize.
Leslie HoppingHOST
She also wrote My Year of Meats, and All Over Creation, along with a handful of some nonfiction books.
Leslie HoppingHOST
She's a Japanese-American writer with a father who was an anthropologist, and the reason I'm saying these things is because I could really feel and see pieces of those things throughout the book.
Chad W. PostHOST
Keith put a lot into it.
Chad W. PostHOST
It won the National Book Critics Circle Award.
Chad W. PostHOST
It got her a ton.
Chad W. PostHOST
We sold the paperback rights to Picador.
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