Inside The New York Times Book Review: ‘H Is for Hawk’

The Book Review

The New York Times

Books, Arts

4.2 • 3.7K Ratings

🗓️ 20 February 2015

⏱️ 27 minutes

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This week, Vicki Constantine Croke discusses Heather Macdonald’s “H Is for Hawk”; Parul Sehgal has news from the literary world; John Williams talks about Nick Hornby’s “Funny Girl”; and Gregory Cowles has best-seller news. Pamela Paul is the host.

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0:00.0	How can a hawk help someone grieve?
0:05.7	Vicki Constantine Croke will tell us about Helen McDonald's H is for hawk, a memoir
0:11.6	which she reviews this week on our cover.
0:14.2	There's nothing cliched in this book whatsoever.
0:17.6	It's very organic, very earthy.
0:20.4	She never has to prove this high concept of I find myself through my animal.
0:25.2	It's just there on every page.
0:27.2	Should you read the new Nick Hornby novel?
0:29.0	John Williams will be here to discuss his review of Funny Girl.
0:32.6	And this is a book I think where he's looking back at a time where he either remembers
0:36.7	or was living right around when these sort of purely comic and slightly more traditional
0:42.3	writers were doing these shows.
0:43.8	And it's a bit of a valentine to them in a way.
0:45.8	Carl Segal and I will talk about what's a foot in the publishing world and great coals
0:50.2	has bestseller news.
0:51.7	This is Inside the New York Times Book Review.
0:53.7	I'm Pamela Paul.
0:57.2	Vicki Constantine Croke joins us now from Boston.
1:09.6	She reviews on the cover this week a new book by Helen McDonald.
1:14.4	H is for hawk.
1:16.2	Hi Vicki.
1:17.2	Hey Pamela, how are you?
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