Jennifer Haigh on 'Mercy Street'

The Book Review

The New York Times

Books, Arts

4.2 • 3.7K Ratings

🗓️ 18 February 2022

⏱️ 54 minutes

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Haigh talks about her new novel, and Megan Walsh discusses "The Subplot: What China Is Reading and Why It Matters."

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0:00.0	How do you incorporate the polarized politics of abortion into a thoughtful and nuanced
0:11.2	work of fiction?
0:13.0	Jennifer Hague will join us to talk about her latest novel, Mercy Street.
0:18.8	What kind of books are the Chinese reading these days?
0:21.6	And what does it say about the state of their culture?
0:25.2	Megan Walsh will join us to talk about the subplot, what China is reading and why it matters
0:29.9	to us.
0:30.9	Liz Harris will be here to talk about what's going on in the publishing world.
0:35.8	Plus our critics will be here to talk about the books they've been reading and reviewing.
0:40.4	This is the Book Review Podcast from the New York Times.
0:44.3	It's February 18th.
0:46.1	I'm Pamela Paul.
0:51.0	Jennifer Hague joins us now from Boston.
0:53.7	She is the author of Seven Novels and a collection of short stories.
0:59.0	Her new book is called Mercy Street.
1:01.3	Jennifer, thanks for being here.
1:02.8	Thank you Pamela.
1:03.8	So you've written many novels.
1:05.6	Can you just talk a little bit about how you work from book to book to always know what
1:10.7	your next project is going to be?
1:12.8	Do you write back to back?
1:14.1	How do you do this?
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