Kate Atkinson on 'Transcription'

The Book Review

The New York Times

Books, Arts

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🗓️ 5 October 2018

⏱️ 50 minutes

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Atkinson talks about her new novel, and Shane Bauer discusses "American Prison."

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0:00.0	What's it like to spy in on the spies?
0:09.0	Kate Afkinson will be here to discuss her latest World War II novel transcription.
0:14.1	How has imprisonment turned into a billion-dollar industry and what are the consequences for
0:18.4	the incarcerated?
0:19.7	Shane Bauer will be here to discuss his book, American Prison.
0:23.2	Plus, we'll talk about what we and the wider world are reading.
0:26.3	This is the Book Review Podcast from the New York Times.
0:28.6	I'm Pamela Paul.
0:38.2	I'm thrilled to have in the studio here with me the brilliant novelist Kate Afkinson,
0:43.4	author of nine novels, is it now?
0:45.8	10 or 11, even.
0:47.0	Don't know.
0:48.0	11 novels.
0:49.0	Approximately 11 novels, including the Great Jackson Brody series and her latest novel transcription.
0:55.0	Kate, thanks so much for being here.
0:56.0	No, it's great to be here.
0:57.4	So it tells us about transcription.
1:00.4	It's setting two time frames, 1940 and 1950, and centres around a girl called Julia Armstrong,
1:06.8	who in 1940 is 18, and she's smart, but she's naive.
1:11.4	She's very arch.
1:12.4	She's a clever girl who's slightly out of water.
1:15.5	She's just been bereaved, so that has a big cast on her character.
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