Inside The New York Times Book Review: ‘Fates and Furies’

The Book Review

The New York Times

Books, Arts

4.2 • 3.7K Ratings

🗓️ 11 September 2015

⏱️ 41 minutes

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This week, Lauren Groff talks about her new novel, “Fates and Furies”; Alexandra Alter has news from the publishing world; Scott Shane discusses “Objective Troy”; feedback from listeners; and Gregory Cowles has best-seller news. Pamela Paul is the host.

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0:00.0	How do you infuse the story of a contemporary marriage with ancient mythology?
0:07.4	Lauren Graf will join us to talk about her new novel, Fates and Furies.
0:11.1	My characters do things that I would hope that my husband would never ever do.
0:16.2	But I think that they both have the feeling that if they hadn't found one another, they
0:21.9	might not have ever gotten married.
0:23.7	How did a man go from being a moderate American imam to an al-Qaeda terrorist?
0:29.0	Scott Shane will talk about his new book, Objective Troy, a terrorist, a president, and
0:34.0	the rise of the drone.
0:35.2	Was this guy some kind of sleeper agent of al-Qaeda?
0:38.7	Was he in on the plot?
0:40.1	And so the FBI decided to surveil him 24 hours a day.
0:45.1	Followed him everywhere.
0:46.3	Alexander Alter will fill us in on the latest from the literary world.
0:49.4	Greg Cole's has bestseller news.
0:51.8	And we'll let readers and listeners ask a few questions for us editors here at the Booker
0:55.3	View.
0:56.3	As inside the New York Times Booker View, I'm Pamela Paul.
1:05.5	Lauren Graf joins us now from Florida.
1:07.7	She is the author of two novels, previously The Monsters of Templeton and Arcadia and
1:13.2	a story collection, Delicate Edible Birds.
1:16.1	And she now has a new book, Fates and Furies, getting a lot of attention and reviewed this
1:21.5	week on our cover.
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