Lisa Halliday on 'Asymmetry'

The Book Review

The New York Times

Books, Arts

4.2 • 3.7K Ratings

🗓️ 16 February 2018

⏱️ 58 minutes

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Halliday discusses her debut novel, and Naomi Novik and Gerald Jonas remember the life and work of Ursula K. Le Guin.

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0:00.0	How does the story of a 20-something woman, toiling in the New York publishing world, coexist
0:11.7	with the story of an Iraqi-American economist detained at Heathrow?
0:16.0	Lisa Holiday will join us to talk about her debut novel, A Simetry.
0:20.7	In what ways do the late Ursula Luguin transform the literary landscape?
0:25.0	Naomi Novik and Jerry Jonas join us to discuss her influence and legacy?
0:29.9	Alexander Alter will give us an update from the publishing world.
0:32.9	Plus, our critics, Dwight Garner, Parle Siggle, and Jen Selai will join us to talk about
0:37.3	the latest in literary criticism.
0:39.4	This is Inside the New York Times Book Review.
0:41.2	I'm Pamela Paul.
0:42.2	Lisa Holiday joins us now.
0:49.0	Her debut novel is called A Simetry, and it's reviewed this week on the cover of the book
0:53.7	review.
0:54.7	Lisa, thanks for being here.
0:55.7	Thank you.
0:56.7	It's a kind of interesting situation because it is a debut novel, and yet you have had a
1:02.7	profile in the New York Times.
1:04.2	You got a terrific daily review in the Times from one of our critics, Parle Siggle.
1:09.3	You're on the cover of the book review.
1:10.9	You've done MPR.
1:12.5	You've had a reading at a major bookstore in New York.
1:15.4	This is sort of not the normal just writing a debut novel and sort of having it out there.
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