Inside The New York Times Book Review: Bill Clegg’s Debut Novel

The Book Review

The New York Times

Books, Arts

4.2 • 3.7K Ratings

🗓️ 4 September 2015

⏱️ 36 minutes

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This week, Bill Clegg talks about “Did You Ever Have a Family”; Alexandra Alter has news from the publishing world; Kathryn J. Edin discusses "$2.00 a Day”; feedback from readers; and Gregory Cowles has best-seller news. Pamela Paul is the host.

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0:00.0	What would you do if your house burned down, killing your entire family in one night?
0:07.2	Bill Clegg will talk about his debut novel, Did You Ever Have A Family?
0:10.6	So you arrive at these characters at their lowest point and as they step out from that
0:16.4	grief and carry a fair bit of regret and guilt for the events that had taken place.
0:22.4	How is it possible to survive an America Unzero Income?
0:25.8	Catherine Eden joins us to talk about two dollars a day, living on almost nothing in America.
0:30.9	So we tell one story of Jennifer Hernandez who's working cleaning foreclosed homes that
0:36.7	have no power or heat in the middle of the Chicago winter and kneeling in the dark, scrubbing
0:43.0	with broken glass and these homes that are just infested with mold.
0:47.3	Alexander Alter will fill us in on the latest in the literary world.
0:50.6	Greg Cole's has bestseller news and will let listeners and readers weigh in with a few
0:54.9	questions for us editors here at the Book Review.
0:57.8	This is Inside the New York Times Book Review.
0:59.4	I'm Pamela Paul.
1:13.2	Bill Clegg joins us now from London.
1:15.3	He is the author of Did You Ever Have A Family?
1:18.4	Which is reviewed this week with a glowing review from Kueh Hart Hemings, the author of
1:23.6	The Descendants and the Possibilities Among Other Books.
1:27.2	Hi, Bill.
1:28.2	Hi, Pamela.
1:29.2	How are you?
1:30.2	I'm good.
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