Inside The New York Times Book Review: ‘How to Be a Person in the World’

The Book Review

The New York Times

Books, Arts

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🗓️ 5 August 2016

⏱️ 44 minutes

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Heather Havrilesky discusses her new collection of advice columns, and Jessica Winter talks about her debut novel, “Break in Case of Emergency.”

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0:00.0	Sometimes when you ask for advice, you get way more than you bargained for. Heather Haverleski,
0:08.0	also known as Ask Polly, is here to talk about the book of her advice columns called How to
0:13.0	Be a Person in the World.
0:14.5	Living in the moment of feeling the way things are and also accepting the imperfections of
0:19.1	the moment, these things are crucial to happiness and their crucial to happiness, whether you're
0:23.3	25 or 55 or 75.
0:26.4	A novel about a 30-something woman trying to be an artist, hold down a job, and conceive
0:30.8	a baby is also a pretty biting satire of celebrity do-gooders.
0:35.3	Jessica Winters here to talk about her first novel, Break and Case of Emergency.
0:39.2	They don't really know what they're doing, no one there knows what they're doing, they
0:41.8	don't really have a sense of mission.
0:43.3	Lyora doesn't have a sense of mission.
0:45.4	Alexander Alter will be here to talk about what's going on in the publishing world, and
0:49.6	John Williams, and special guest star Jenny Schussler, will be here to talk about what
0:53.4	we're reading.
0:54.4	As Inside the New York Times Booker View, I'm Pamela Paul.
1:05.2	Heather Havrleski joins us now from LA.
1:07.3	She is the author of How to Be a Person in the World.
1:10.7	Ask Polly's Guide through the paradoxes of modern life.
1:13.9	Heather, thanks for being here.
1:15.2	Thank you for having me, Pamela.
1:16.2	I'm thrilled to be here.
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