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The Book Review

Celebrating Our 15th Anniversary

The Book Review

The New York Times

Arts, Books

4.03.9K Ratings

🗓️ 16 April 2021

⏱️ 77 minutes

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Summary

Pamela Paul, Sam Tanenhaus, Dwight Garner, and the producers Jocelyn Gonzales and Pedro Rosado discuss what's happened behind the scenes during 15 years of the podcast.

Transcript

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0:00.0

Today marks the 15th anniversary of the Booker View Podcast, so happy birthday to us and

0:07.6

to help celebrate I've called in a few friends.

0:10.7

First up, former editor of the Booker View, former host of the Booker View Podcast, my

0:15.4

former boss and still my friend, Sam Tannenhaus joins us together with the podcast co-founder

0:21.8

Dwight Garner, now a book critic for The New York Times.

0:27.0

After that, our very own producer extraordinaire Pedro Osato and our amazing alumni producer

0:31.8

Jocelyn Denzelis will join us to talk about how the sausage gets made.

0:36.3

Alexander Alter will have an update from the publishing world.

0:39.6

And finally, podcast co-conspirator John Williams will be here to grill me about the last

0:44.8

10 years of hosting this thing.

0:46.8

This is the Booker View Podcast for The New York Times.

0:49.5

It's April 16th.

0:50.8

I'm Pamela Paul.

0:54.5

Following us now, the former host of the podcast, an author of Whitaker Chambers, a biography,

1:00.9

and the death of conservatism, as well as a forthcoming biography of William F. Buckley,

1:06.6

Sam Tannenhaus, and Dwight Garner, critic at The New York Times, and former senior editor

1:13.3

at the Booker View.

1:14.3

Hi there.

1:15.3

Hello.

1:16.3

Let's talk about the dawn of the podcast, because both of you were responsible, but whose

1:22.4

idea specifically was this?

1:24.9

Dwight's.

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