Joy Williams and Unique Views of America
The Book Review
The New York Times
4.0 • 3.9K Ratings
🗓️ 20 November 2020
⏱️ 62 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | Who is Joy Williams and what makes her a great American writer? |
| 0:10.2 | Aos Scott will be here to talk about the author and her work. |
| 0:15.8 | What does the future look like for the coronavirus? |
| 0:18.4 | Nicholas Christakis will be here to talk about his new book, Apollo's Arrow. |
| 0:25.7 | Alexander Alter will have an update from the publishing world. |
| 0:29.3 | Thomas Loss will talk about what we and the wider world are reading. |
| 0:33.4 | This is the Book Review podcast from the New York Times. |
| 0:36.9 | It's November 20th. |
| 0:37.9 | I'm Pamela Paul. |
| 0:42.4 | Aos Scott joins us now to talk about the latest in his series of essays, The Americans. |
| 0:53.5 | Tony, thanks for being here. |
| 0:54.8 | It's great to be here. |
| 0:56.0 | This time around you write about Joy Williams. |
| 0:58.8 | For those who are not familiar with her work, who is Joy Williams? |
| 1:02.5 | Joy Williams is an American novelist and short story writer. |
| 1:06.1 | She's still alive. |
| 1:07.1 | She's in her 70s. |
| 1:08.1 | She started publishing in the 1970s. |
| 1:11.1 | Her first novel was State of Grace. |
| 1:13.7 | She's had a loyal cult following in a profile of her a few years ago in the New York Times |
| 1:20.5 | magazine. |
| 1:21.5 | Dan Coise referred to her as a writer's writer's writer. |
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