Inside The New York Times Book Review: Charles D’Ambrosio’s ‘Loitering’

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The New York Times

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🗓️ 2 January 2015

⏱️ 37 minutes

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This week, Phillip Lopate discusses Charles D’Ambrosio’s “Loitering”; Alexandra Alter has news from the publishing world; Sven Beckert talks about “Empire of Cotton”; and Gregory Cowles has best-seller news. Parul Sehgal is the host, filling in for Pamela Paul.

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0:00.0	Why is the essay more popular than ever?
0:05.4	Phil Blopade is here to discuss Charles Dembrosey's new collection in the State of the
0:08.8	essay.
0:09.8	He really is a skeptic.
0:10.8	He really is somebody who is continually thinking against himself and questioning himself.
0:16.0	And what can the history of cotton tell us about capitalism?
0:18.7	Sven Becker's joins us to talk about his new book.
0:21.3	Once you start looking at the history of cotton and once you start looking at the history
0:25.2	of capitalism, you just notice that violence plays a very large role.
0:29.6	The else have Alexandra Alter on publishing news and Greg Cole's with Best Sellers.
0:33.9	This is Inside the New York Times Book Review and I'm Barrel Segal.
0:45.6	This is Barrel Segal, an editor at The New York Times Book Review.
0:48.4	And today we're talking about the art of the essay and we're so lucky to have with us,
0:52.5	Philip Blopade, one of the most remarkable essays we have, author of the book, Sportared
0:57.0	Inside My Head and to show and to tell the craft of literary nonfiction.
1:01.0	In this week's issue, he reviews Charles Dembrosey's new essay collection, The Wonderful
1:05.3	Tidled Loitering.
1:06.3	Welcome, Philip.
1:07.3	Glad to be here.
1:08.3	So Philip, you have high praise for Dembrosey.
1:10.5	And you say he's one of the strongest, smartest and most literate essayists practicing
1:14.6	today and he's got a cult reputation.
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