Inside The New York Times Book Review: The 10 Best Books of 2015

The Book Review

The New York Times

Books, Arts

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🗓️ 4 December 2015

⏱️ 59 minutes

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Summary

This week, editors at the Book Review discuss the year’s best books; Alexandra Alter has news from the literary world; Matthew Schneier discusses facial hair and a treatise on men’s style; Bee Wilson talks about “First Bite”; and Gregory Cowles has best-seller news. Pamela Paul is the host.

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0:00.0	How do we pick the best of the best?
0:04.7	My colleagues, Paral Sago, Greg Cole's and Jen Soli will join me to talk about our
0:08.8	10 best books of the year.
0:10.4	It's also like deeply strange a book that sort of really does talk about the limits of
0:15.2	grief and like the far reaches of what it means to be human when you fall in love with
0:18.5	something so wild.
0:19.7	What's in a beard, in a tie, a pleated trouser?
0:22.7	Matthew Schneier will be here to talk about two new books of Beards and Men and True Style.
0:27.6	I would imagine that the kind of beard moment, the stubble moment, the outdoors-meaningly moment
0:32.5	is, he would say, a response to kind of the metrosexual moment that was five minutes ago.
0:38.2	Why do we eat what we eat?
0:39.6	Be Wilson will tell us about her latest book, First Bite, How We Learned To Eat.
0:44.0	Children are powerless in so many ways and one of the very few things that they have control
0:48.3	over is the ability to refuse or accept food.
0:52.5	Alexander Alton will give us an update from the literary world and Greg Cole's has best
0:56.6	color news.
0:57.6	This is Inside the New York Times Book Review.
0:59.5	I'm Pamela Paul.
1:05.1	I am very excited to have here a big crew from the Book Review Editorial team.
1:10.7	We've got Carl Sages.
1:12.2	Hello.
1:13.2	Hey Pamela.
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