Inside The New York Times Book Review: Megan Abbott’s ‘You Will Know Me’

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The New York Times

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🗓️ 29 July 2016

⏱️ 45 minutes

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Megan Abbott discusses “You Will Know Me”; Alexandra Alter has news from the publishing world; Marilyn Stasio talks about several new true-crime books; feedback from readers; and Gregory Cowles and John Williams on what people are reading. Pamela Paul is the host.

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0:00.0	What darkness might the family of a young competitive gymnast be hiding?
0:07.0	Megan Abbott is here to talk about her latest thriller You Will Know Me.
0:10.4	Thriller is supposed to go to the dark places and so I think it's sort of a safe space
0:15.3	for writers to start to go for the jugular.
0:17.9	Fiction aside, our stories of true crime addictive, our intrepid crime colonist Marilyn
0:23.2	Stasio said she had trouble looking away.
0:25.8	I don't know what this is about.
0:28.4	This is real.
0:30.0	And then I started reading and I got the hang of it and I realized that everybody is
0:36.8	an addict.
0:38.0	Also, literary news, summer books you loved and what we at the Book of View are reading.
0:43.1	This is Inside the New York Times Book Review.
0:44.8	I'm Pamela Paul.
0:53.7	Megan Abbott specializes in finding the creepiness where there seems to be love, trust and comfort.
0:59.5	Her latest is set in the clickish high stakes world of competitive gymnasts.
1:04.0	It's called You Will Know Me and Megan Abbott is here with me now to talk about it.
1:07.8	Hi, Megan.
1:08.8	Hi, thanks for having me.
1:09.8	Thank you for being here.
1:11.3	So tell us the premise of your latest book.
1:14.8	The idea was I'd always wanted to write about a prodigy and this case it's a gymnastic
1:19.1	prodigy.
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