A Look Ahead at the Season's Big Books

The Book Review

The New York Times

Books, Arts

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🗓️ 3 February 2023

⏱️ 21 minutes

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Gilbert Cruz and Tina Jordan discuss the upcoming books they're most excited to read in the next few months.

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0:00.0	Hello everyone, this is the Book Review Podcast and I'm Gilbert Cruz, editor of the New
0:11.6	York Times Book Review.
0:14.0	We've been on break for a bit.
0:15.4	The last you probably heard from us was in December 2022 when we had two conversations,
0:22.7	one about our top ten books of the year and the other with our critics, Dwight Garner,
0:27.2	Jen Zalai and Alexandra Jacobs.
0:30.1	They spoke about some of their favorite books of the year.
0:32.9	We're happy to be back.
0:33.9	I'm here with Tina Jordan, who is the deputy editor of the Book Review, to talk about just
0:39.0	a few of the big books that are coming out over the next several months.
0:43.1	Hello Tina.
0:44.1	Hey Gilbert.
0:45.2	Thank you for doing this.
0:49.5	It's my pleasure.
0:51.1	So before we get into the actual books that you're going to talk about, I would love to
0:56.2	give our listeners a sense of what we actually mean when we say big books, as we both know,
1:02.3	because we work in the Book Review.
1:03.5	There are so many books released every week, every month.
1:06.1	But we're probably just going to talk about eight or nine here.
1:09.1	So my first question is when I say big book, when you say big book, when people in the publishing
1:15.0	industry say big book, what does that actually mean?
1:18.7	It can mean a couple of things.
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