Life in Tech’s ‘Uncanny Valley’

The Book Review

The New York Times

Books, Arts

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🗓️ 10 January 2020

⏱️ 54 minutes

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Anna Wiener discusses her new memoir, and Elisabeth Egan talks about Group Text, a new monthly feature from the Book Review.

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0:00.0	What's it like being an outsider in that most inside-er-y world Silicon Valley?
0:10.8	Anna Weiner will join us to talk about her memoir, Uncanny Valley.
0:14.3	What's the most important decision a book club makes?
0:17.0	It's not where to host the next meeting, actually.
0:19.2	It is what to read.
0:20.7	And so Elizabeth Egan, an editor at the Booker View, will join us to talk about her new monthly
0:25.4	column, Group Text, in which she helps readers make those decisions and have conversations
0:30.6	around worthy new books.
0:32.3	She'll talk about her first month pick Long Bright River by Liz Moore.
0:36.8	Alexander Alter will give us an update from the publishing world, plus we'll talk about
0:40.8	what we and the water world are reading.
0:43.1	This is the Booker View Podcast from The New York Times.
0:45.4	I'm Pamela Paul.
0:53.3	I want to take a moment to tell you about a new series of events we've created called Booker
0:57.2	View Live.
0:58.2	At each event, we'll use books as a jumping off point into larger discussions that help
1:03.0	us better understand our world.
1:05.5	Kind of like we do here on the podcast.
1:07.8	The first one is happening the evening of January 14th at the Time Center in New York City.
1:13.2	We'll be welcoming Cheryl Ludon and my colleague Nick Christoff to talk about their new book,
1:17.3	Tightrope, Americans Reaching for Hope.
1:20.2	They'll be in conversation with our critic, Jennifer Salai.
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