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#361 Pamela Paul: The Things We've Lost To The Internet

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emma gannon

Authors, Wellbeing, Arts, Books, Social Media, Creativity

4.61.1K Ratings

🗓️ 4 November 2021

⏱️ 44 minutes

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My guest today is Pamela Paul, the editor of The New York Times Book Review. She oversees all books coverage at The New York Times and is also the host of the weekly Book Review podcast there too. Dream job alert!! She is also the author and editor of six books: including My Life with Bob,  and By the Book: Writers on Literature and the Literary Life. Her work has appeared in The New York Times, The Washington Post, The Atlantic and Vogue. Today we are discussing her new book, 100 Things We’ve Lost to the Internet. In one hundred glimpses of that pre-Internet world, Pamela presents a captivating record of the world before cyberspace—from voicemails to blind dates to punctuation to bad photos. It’s a nostalgic, analytic, warm and funny book about the things we tend to forget were a part of our lives, and the things we miss and the things we dont. It’ll have you reminiscing with friends and also feeling grateful for what the internet has brought to our lives. Hope you enjoy this episode :-)


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Hello and welcome back to Control or Delete. My guest today is Pamela Paul, the editor of the

1:03.2

New York Times book review. She oversees all books coverage at the New York Times,

1:08.0

bit of a dream job there, and she is also the host of the weekly book review podcast.

1:13.4

She is the author and editor also of six books, including My Life with Bob, and by the book,

1:18.4

writers on literature and the literary life. Her book has appeared in the New York Times,

1:22.5

The Washington Post, The Atlantic, and Vogue, and today we're discussing her brand new book,

1:27.8

called 100 Things We've Lost to the Internet. This book's title just immediately

1:32.8

pricked my ears up, and I really wanted to read it because I've also been thinking a lot about

1:37.8

the past, and about my new book, Disconnected, which looks at how we can get some of that old

1:43.4

classic joy that we used to get from the internet back. In her book, she presents 100 glimpses

1:49.1

of that pre-internet world, the captivating record of the world before cyberspace. From voicemails

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