Inside The New York Times Book Review: ‘NeuroTribes’

The Book Review

The New York Times

Books, Arts

4.2 • 3.7K Ratings

🗓️ 21 August 2015

⏱️ 52 minutes

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Summary

This week, Steve Silberman talks about “NeuroTribes” and autism; Alexandra Alter has news from the publishing world; Elisabeth Egan discusses “A Window Opens”; questions from readers; Maria Russo talks about the season’s children’s books; and Parul Sehgal has best-seller news. Pamela Paul is the host.

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0:00.0	Could the autism epidemic be an optical illusion?
0:05.9	Steve Silverman will be here to talk about his book, Neuro Tribes, The Legacy of Autism
0:10.3	and the Future of Neurodiversity.
0:12.2	Autism parenting has a long and terrible history of people being subjected to shame and stigma,
0:20.6	because for most of the 20th century, the prevailing theory among psychologists was that autism
0:26.4	was caused by bad parenting.
0:28.4	What happens when a woman with a perfect work life balance gets a more than full-time
0:32.6	job at a 24-7 tech company?
0:35.4	Elizabeth Egan will be here to talk about her debut novel, A Window Opens.
0:38.9	The thing that keeps me up at night the most is the pull between family and ambition and
0:45.2	family and finances and trying to find the right footing in both of those worlds.
0:52.1	Looking for that perfect picture book?
0:54.1	Maria Rousseau, our children's book editor, will join us to talk about this year's Back
0:57.5	to School Kids books.
0:59.2	Alexander Alter will fill us in on the latest from the literary world.
1:02.5	Parle Sagole has bestseller news.
1:05.0	And we'll let readers and listeners ask a few questions for us editors here at the Booker
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1:11.3	I'm Pamela Paul.
1:22.0	Steve Silverman joins me now from San Francisco.
1:24.7	Hi Steve.
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