652: A Long Zoom

The Incomparable Mothership

Jason Snell

Arts, Tv & Film, Leisure

4.8 • 694 Ratings

🗓️ 10 February 2023

⏱️ 88 minutes

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Summary

Our Book Club reconvenes to discuss R.F. Kuang’s “Babel.” It’s a story about magic and empire and revolution, and our feelings about it are similarly complicated. Plus: A whole bunch of book suggestions! Our next Book Club selection: “Sea of Tranquility” by Emily St. John Mandel....

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0:00.0	The Incomparable, number 652, February 2023.
0:10.0	Welcome back everybody to The Incomparable.
0:11.9	I am your host, Jason Snell.
0:13.1	This is an episode of our book club.
0:14.7	And as announced on our previous book club, we gave you a warning.
0:19.3	We are reading Babel or The Necessity of Violence, colon, an arcane
0:24.0	history of the Oxford Translator's Revolution here and after to be referred to as Babel by R. F. Kwong.
0:29.8	I am Jason Snell. I already said that part. Let me introduce you to our panelists, or are they the
0:34.8	members of our book club? I don't know. Dan Morin. Hello. Oh, hi, Jason. I like
0:41.9	books. All right. Well, you're in a club about them, so that worked out. Oh, well, I wouldn't
0:47.7	want to be part of any club that would have me. Did you mean you, when you said like books,
0:51.7	did you mean you write books? Because you also do that.
0:54.3	I don't like to.
0:55.8	That's work.
0:57.3	That's when you don't like books.
1:00.2	Aline Sims is also here.
1:01.3	Hello.
1:02.3	Hello.
1:03.1	I don't write books, but I read a lot of them.
1:06.0	Nice.
1:06.7	Nice.
1:07.0	Glenn Fleischman is here.
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