Inside The New York Times Book Review: ‘Love and Lies’

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The New York Times

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🗓️ 6 February 2015

⏱️ 36 minutes

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This week, Adelle Waldman discusses Clancy Martin’s “Love and Lies”; Alexandra Alter has news from the publishing world; Dana Goldstein talks about Anya Kamenetz’s “The Test”; and Gregory Cowles has best-seller news. Pamela Paul is the host.

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0:00.0	Is it possible to love well without lying?
0:05.5	This is the question Clancy Martin poses in his new book,
0:08.7	and Adele Waldman joins us to talk about her review of love and lies.
0:13.3	The need for self-deception in order to fall in love and to marry
0:17.6	is so compelling that we should really begin to question our idea of his honesty
0:23.0	as important as we tend to think.
0:24.6	Why are schools so obsessed with testing?
0:27.2	Dana Goldstein will be here to talk about her review of Anya Kamenets' new book, The Test.
0:32.7	Why are schools are obsessed with standardized testing, but you don't have to be.
0:36.9	If we don't give all of these tests, we don't get back all this data that makes the achievement gap visible.
0:43.9	Alexander Altar will be here with notes in the publishing world, and Greg Kohl's has best other news.
0:48.7	This is Inside the New York Times Book Review. I'm Pamela Call.
0:52.5	Adele Waldman is here to talk about her review this week of new book by Clancy Martin
0:59.1	called Love and Lies, an essay on truthfulness, deceit, and the growth and care of erotic love.
1:06.6	Hi Adele.
1:07.6	Hi Pamela.
1:08.4	And you are also, I should say, the author of the novel The Love Affairs of Nathaniel P,
1:13.1	which came out two years ago?
1:14.5	Yeah, about two years ago.
1:15.4	Okay. Who is Clancy Martin for those people who are not familiar with him?
1:19.5	He is a philosophy professor, and he teaches at the University of Missouri in Kansas City.
1:25.0	He also published a novel in 2009 called How to Sell.
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