Oh, ho. Bookerfew listeners, hi. I'm Wesley Morris. I host a show called Cannonball,

and I'm here to let you know that Cannonball is going to be live at the Tribeca Festival this year.

I'm going to be on stage with Cynthia Nixon, which is very exciting, and we're going to talk about,

yes, that Cynthia Nixon, and we're going to talk about some great art

about New York City.

And the show,

we're going to do it Friday, June 12th at 6 p.m.

I'll say it again.

Friday, June 12th at 6 p.m.

And you can get your tickets right now

as I speak at Tribecafilm.com slash audio.

That's Tribecafilm.com slash audio.

Can't wait to see you there.

Please, come join us.

Hello, I'm Gilbert Cruz, and this is the book review from the New York Times. I know that there's an

official, astronomically based beginning to summer, the solstice, and all that stuff. But it is after

Memorial Day, everyone, and as far as I'm concerned, it is summer. And what do we all like to do in the

summer? Sit inside. Get out of the sun. Find an air conditioner. Read some books. But what books should you read the summer? That's what we are here to figure out. I have called him some fellow editors from the book review to assist me to go through the next three months and call out a few things that were all excited about. Jumanicatib. You came back. I'm here. Hello. Hello. M.J. Franklin, host of our monthly book club discussions. Hello. Howdy and happy summer. Happy summer. We're all summer birthdays in here. Summer birthdays are hard. They're terrible. Yeah, it has made me not like my birthday. I hate my birthday. No one was ever around to celebrate it.

Thank you.

Likewise, my birthday is usually over Memorial Day. Oh, do you have plans, reading plans for the summer, MJ? Of course. I always like to treat the summer as a catch-up time. We have to work, but in my brain, it's still school-mode, summer vacation. and like, when out something I'm going to have time to read that giant 700-page novel?

When out of what am I going to have time to read that giant 700-page novel? When out of it's about to have time to read this classic? But then, I like to be outside, in the grass, reading something fun and frothy, and Gilbert, you're scowling at me. But within us, there are two wolves, one monkish one that wants to read a classic and one that wants to read a crazy thriller

and a hammock. Is it going to have the bald spot? Inside me, there's one wolf. That is the inside

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