Building The 100 Best Books of the Century with Gilbert Cruz, Editor of THE NEW YORK TIMES BOOK REVIEW

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🗓️ 17 July 2024

⏱️ 49 minutes

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In this special episode, Jeff and Rebecca are joined by Gilbert Cruz, editor of The New York Times Book Review, to talk about the construction, philosophy, and end result of The New York Times list of the 100 Best Books of the 21st Century. Subscribe to the podcast via RSS, Apple Podcasts, and Spotify. For more industry news, sign up for our Today in Books daily newsletter! Check out the Book Riot Podcast Book Page on Thriftbooks! Discussed in this episode: The Book Riot Podcast Patreon The 100 Best Books of the 21st Century The New York Times Book Review Podcast discussion of the list Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:27.5	This is the Book Right Podcast. I'm Jeff O'Neill. I'm Rebecca Shinsky.
0:35.0	And we're not the only two people here today. We have a very special guest.
0:39.0	Gilbert Cruz, the editor of the New York Times Brook Review is here to talk about TV.
0:44.3	No, I'm kidding.
0:44.9	He's not here to talk about TV.
0:46.1	Although, will you come back and talk about TV?
0:48.5	Yeah, we have to do that at some point.
0:50.1	To talk about the New York Times Project, Survey, Magnum Digital Opus, the hundred greatest books of the century.
1:00.0	So far, the New York Times has weighed in in 2000 apparently does initiate the century no no no argument from me here
1:07.8	We're gonna do methodology we're gonna talk how they put the thing together and Rebecca talked with Vanessa last time on the show and I
1:14.8	believe you said on that show Rebecca telling me wrong that you and I had were
1:17.7	invited by Gilbert in the New York Times Book Review to submit a list as did Sherefifa and we're not going to talk too much about our
1:25.6	ballots today maybe as it pertains to the nuts and bolts.
1:28.7	Shrifa Rebecca and I are going to do a talk about our lists and our feelings about the list a little bit later in the week.
1:35.0	We do want to hit Gilbert with a bunch of questions.
1:38.0	Rebecca, I'll go first and we have some we want to get through,
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