NY Times Columnist Pamela Paul Knows What You’re Thinking

The Unspeakable Podcast

Meghan Daum

Society & Culture

4.8 • 784 Ratings

🗓️ 27 November 2023

⏱️ 85 minutes

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Summary

New York Times opinion columnist Pamela Paul joins The Unspeakable for a conversation about problematic opinions, obvious truths, the state of book reviewing, the problem with publishing, “feeling French” despite being an American, and much more.

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GUEST BIO

Pamela Paul became an Opinion columnist for The New York Times in 2022. She was previously the editor of The New York Times Book Review for nine years, where she oversaw book coverage and hosted the Book Review podcast. She is the author of eight books, most recently, 100 Things We’ve Lost to the Internet.

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0:00.0	The disconnect between what people were saying outside of the Zoom, outside of the feed, outside of the Slack channel, and what they were saying inside was so vast that I began to feel like, there's a lot that's not being said and there's a lot that's not being
0:22.0	written. And if we're all talking about these things on our own, why isn't anyone writing
0:27.7	about them? And then part of my evolution to deciding to become a columnist was thinking,
0:34.4	well, someone needs to write about this stuff.
0:38.4	Welcome to the unspeakable podcast. I'm your host, Megan Dom.
0:42.3	Welcome back from Thanksgiving. I hope you had a good week. Before I introduce this week's
0:48.3	guest, Pamela Paul, I have some announcements. The first is that my next writing workshop
0:54.1	has been announced for early
0:55.5	next year. I'll be teaching another personal essay and memoir workshop on Zoom. It will run six
1:02.0	consecutive Wednesdays, January 10th through February 14th from 2 to 4 p.m. Eastern Time.
1:08.8	The application deadline is December 13th. And to apply and learn more about that,
1:14.6	you can go to my substack, megan dowm.com, and find the post about that. You can also apply
1:21.4	through the unspeak easy website. I have added the writing class onto a menu at the unspeak easy.com. This is a co-ed
1:31.5	class and it's not like an official unspeak-easy offering, but I have just added some information
1:37.9	about it on the unspeak-easy website. So you can either go to the substack or to the unspeak-easy.com
1:44.0	and find out how to apply.
1:47.0	December 13th is the deadline.
1:49.4	Speaking of the unspeak easy, we have four retreats officially announced for 2024 and are
1:56.5	almost certainly going to announce a fifth.
1:59.2	What we have, as of now, are March 2nd and 3rd in
2:03.5	Austin, that is a weekend retreat, April 9th through 12th in Louisville, Kentucky, April 20th and 21st in
2:12.1	Los Angeles. That's another weekend retreat sometime in May. And now this is the one we have
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