Inside The New York Times Book Review: ‘I Contain Multitudes’

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The New York Times

Books, Arts

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🗓️ 19 August 2016

⏱️ 46 minutes

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This week, Ed Yong talks about “I Contain Multitudes”; Alexandra Alter has news from the publishing world; Meghan Daum discusses Egos, her new column about memoirs; and Gregory Cowles and John Williams on what we’re reading. Pamela Paul is the host.

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0:00.0	Human beings went hundreds of years without knowing anything about microbes.
0:06.3	Ed Young will be here to talk about I contain multitudes, about microbes and their relationship
0:11.3	with a human body.
0:12.3	You know, when I eat a salad, I'm not just nourishing myself, I'm nourishing this entire
0:16.4	world inside me.
0:17.9	That is part of me and is important for me.
0:20.0	We have a new columnist at the Book Review and it's the brilliant essayist and critic
0:23.6	Megan Downe.
0:24.9	This week, her first column on memoirs, Ego's Dave Hughes in the Book Review.
0:29.1	The theme for this column is stories of not only coming out, but reparative therapy,
0:37.4	ex gay therapy, as it's called.
0:39.8	Also, Alexander Alter will join us with news in the literary world and great coals, John
0:44.6	Williams and I will talk about what we and other people are reading.
0:48.0	This is Inside the New York Times Book Review.
0:49.7	I'm Pamela Paul.
0:59.1	Ed Young joins us now.
1:00.9	He is the author of I contain multitudes, the microbes within us and a grander view of
1:06.8	life.
1:07.8	Thanks for being here.
1:08.8	Thanks for having me.
1:09.8	I have to say you're sitting in front of me and you're half my age and you have an amazing
1:14.6	resume somehow at the age of 23 or whatever.
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