David Mitchell's Vast and Tangled Universe

The Book Review

The New York Times

Books, Arts

4.0 • 3.9K Ratings

🗓️ 10 July 2020

⏱️ 62 minutes

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Daniel Mendelsohn discusses Mitchell's career and new novel, "Utopia Avenue," and Maria Konnikova talks about "The Biggest Bluff."

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0:00.0	What makes a book a David Mitchell novel?
0:11.6	Critic Daniel Mendelssohn will be here to talk about Mitchell's latest book Utopia
0:15.6	Avenue and how it fits in to his full body of work.
0:20.2	How do you become a player and high steaks poker?
0:23.2	Maria Conocova will join us to talk about her new book, The Biggest Bluff.
0:27.8	Alexander Altair will have an update from the publishing world.
0:30.9	Plus we'll talk about what we and the wider world are reading.
0:34.2	This is the Book Review Podcast for the New York Times.
0:36.9	It's July 10th.
0:38.2	I'm Pamela Paul.
0:47.0	Daniel Mendelssohn joins us now.
0:48.8	He is a professor of humanities at Bard College.
0:52.0	He is the editor at large of the New York Review of Books.
0:56.0	He is the author of many, many books, including most recently, Ex-Tacy and Terror and the Memoir
1:02.3	and Odyssey, a father, a son, and an epic.
1:06.2	And a book coming in September, Three Rings, a Tale of Exile, Narrative, and Fate.
1:11.8	Daniel, thank you so much for being here.
1:13.7	Oh, it's great to be here, Pamela.
1:15.6	Thank you.
1:16.6	Well, we're not here to talk about any of those things.
1:19.0	We're here to talk about David Mitchell, but before we do, just what are your day jobs
1:24.0	like in quarantine?
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