A Violent Summer in Chicago
The Book Review
The New York Times
4.0 • 3.9K Ratings
🗓️ 8 March 2019
⏱️ 59 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | What are the effects of violence on the residents of Chicago? |
| 0:10.3 | Alex Kotlowicz will be here to talk about his new book, An American Summer, Love and Death |
| 0:15.7 | in Chicago. |
| 0:16.7 | How does an island nation survive in a dystopian hellscape of rising seas? |
| 0:22.1 | John Lantester will be here to talk about his new novel, The Wall. |
| 0:25.9 | Plus, we'll talk about what we and the wider world are reading. |
| 0:29.2 | This is the Book Review Podcast from The New York Times. |
| 0:31.7 | I'm Pamela Paul. |
| 0:33.8 | Alex Kotlowicz joins us now to talk about his new book, An American Summer, Love and Death |
| 0:46.8 | in Chicago. |
| 0:47.8 | Review this week on the cover of the Book Review. |
| 0:49.9 | Alex, hi. |
| 0:50.9 | Thanks for being here. |
| 0:51.9 | Thanks for having me. |
| 0:52.9 | You know, before we even begin to talk about the subject of this book, which is very |
| 0:57.8 | present day. |
| 0:58.8 | I want to start with a book that you wrote several books ago that came out in 1991. |
| 1:04.6 | There are no children here. |
| 1:05.8 | I think everyone who read this book and obviously many people did. |
| 1:09.5 | It was a huge bestseller. |
| 1:11.2 | We're kind of permanently touched and struck by that book. |
| 1:16.2 | It's just one of those books that doesn't go away. |
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