Inside The New York Times Book Review: Jill Leovy’s ‘Ghettoside’

The Book Review

The New York Times

Books, Arts

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🗓️ 23 January 2015

⏱️ 43 minutes

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This week, Jill Leovy discusses “Ghettoside”; Patton Oswalt talks about his memoir “Silver Screen Fiend”; Alexandra Alter has news from the publishing world; Anita Shapira discusses “Ben-Gurion: Father of Modern Israel”; and Gregory Cowles has best-seller news. Pamela Paul is the host.

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0:00.0	Why so many black homicides in America?
0:05.2	Jillio V, a reporter for the LA Times, will be here to talk about her new book, Get Us
0:09.7	Side, a true story of murder in America.
0:12.5	Here is this drum beat of a leaf-alody day-in-and-day out that is like part of the wallpaper
0:20.2	of the life that we don't see and I want people to see that.
0:23.2	Can't watch enough movies?
0:24.7	Pat and Oswald will tell us about his film habit and his new book, Silver Screen Fiend.
0:29.9	Learning about life from an addiction to film.
0:31.9	I wasn't seeing three movies a week, I was seeing three movies a day, both days.
0:35.9	Yeah, that was the problem.
0:37.4	Who was Israel's George Washington?
0:39.4	Anita Shapiro joins us from Malta to talk about her new biography, Ben Gorean, Father of
0:44.1	Modern Israel.
0:45.1	And he always talked about Israel becoming a light unto the nations.
0:50.9	We are still far from this.
0:53.9	Alexander Altair will be here with notes on the publishing world and great coals will
0:57.7	have bestseller news.
0:59.2	This is Inside the New York Times Booker View.
1:00.9	I'm Pamela Paul.
1:09.5	Jill Leovie from the LA Times joins us now to talk about Get Us Side, a true story of
1:15.2	murder in America.
1:16.2	Hi, Jill.
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