Elon Musk's Biography and Profiling Naomi Klein

The Book Review

The New York Times

Books, Arts

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🗓️ 15 September 2023

⏱️ 24 minutes

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Times critic Jennifer Szalai talks about Walter Isaacson's biography of the world's richest man and her recent look at the writer and activist Naomi Klein.

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0:00.0	I'm Gilbert Cruz, editor of the New York Times Book Review, and this is the Book Review
0:11.7	podcast.
0:13.0	It's fall book season and let me tell you business is a boomin'.
0:17.2	I read the new Stephen King book, Holly.
0:19.8	We had him on last week's episode, check that out if you haven't.
0:23.0	I've read the news 80 Smith book, and it looks like hopefully we'll have her on an upcoming
0:27.9	episode, and I read big chunks of this very large new biography of Elon Musk by Walter
0:33.9	Isaacson.
0:34.9	We are not going to have Elon Musk in a future episode.
0:38.8	Joining me today is Jennifer Salai, our nonfiction book critic to talk about that
0:44.0	musk biography.
0:45.0	We're also going to talk about a recent profile that Jen wrote for the New York Times
0:49.0	magazine about the activist and author Naomi Klein, whose new book is titled, Double Ganger,
0:55.0	a Trip Into the Mirror World.
1:03.4	Jen, thanks for being here today.
1:05.3	Thanks for having me, Gilbert.
1:07.1	So this is an almost 700 page biography, and you received your copy less than a week
1:13.3	ago at the time that we're recording.
1:15.4	So before we dig into the book itself, I just want you to give our listeners a little
1:19.7	taste of what it's like to read, digest, and write about a book like this on such a tight
1:26.0	deadline.
1:27.0	It's quite the experience.
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