I'm Gilbert Cruz editor of the New York Times Book Review and this is the Book Review

podcast.

This week we have our latest book club episode.

Once again in the Captain's Chair is our editor

M.J Franklin. You may have heard him on previous episodes in which he and others

discussed Stephen Copperhead and the Heaven and Earth Grocery Store.

If you have read either of those books, but you have not checked out those episodes, please

go back and give them a listen.

This week, he leads a conversation about Dolly Alderton's best-selling book, Good

Material. As always, all plot points and themes are fair game. So if your spoiler verse,

beware. Go read the book. Save this in your cue, come back and listen.

Enjoy the conversation.

Hello and welcome to another book club episode of the book review podcast.

I'm M.J Franklin, I'm an editor here at the New York Times Book Review,

and this week we're chatting about Dolly Alderton's latest novel, Good Material.

This is a funny introduction because depending on what type of

reader you are or on what side of the Atlantic you are on, Dolly Alderton is

either a huge inescapable cultural phenomenon to you or she's a writer you've never heard of.

Dolly Alderton is the author of several books. First she had a memoir come out called

Everything I Know About Love, then she has a memoir come out called Everything I Know About Love.

Then she has a novel called Ghosts, and she has a collection of columns called Dear Dolly.

And that collection of columns, hints at why she is known in the UK, but not necessarily known

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