How does it feel to be back on Booktour during the pandemic?

David Sideris returns to the podcast to talk about his collected diaries, A Carnival of

Snackery.

And what's it like to collaborate with Paul McCartney?

Paul Mildoon joins us to talk about working on The lyrics and reads to us from his own

new collection of poetry, Howdy Skilp.

Plus my colleagues and I will talk about what we're reading, and one quick programming

note will be off for New Year's Eve next week, but back with you again to January 7th.

Until then, Happy New Year!

This is the Bookerview Podcast from the New York Times.

It's December 24th, I'm Pamela Paul.

David Sideris joins us now from Montana, where he is on tour for his latest book, A Carnival

of Snackery, Diaries 2003 to 2020.

David, welcome back to the podcast.

Thank you, Pamela.

So this is your second volume of diaries.

Your first one, Theft by Finding, was 1997 to 2002.

And you mentioned that your partner, Q, called Volume 1, the David Copperfield Sideris.

Does he have a name for this one?

No, he doesn't.

That just occurred to me that he didn't come up with a name for this one.

But no, I mean, the first one had more of an arc.

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