I'm Gilbert Cruz editor of the New York Times Book Review and this is the Book Review

podcast. It's the third week of January and I guess I can't lie to myself anymore. It's the third week of January and I I guess I can't lie to myself anymore. It's indeed a new year

It's true and I guess I have to look towards the future instead of trying to fit in just a few more books from 2023 that I really really wanted to

check out.

Appropriately on this week's episode, two of my colleagues from the book review,

Tina Jordan and Jumanakatib, join me to talk about some of the books we're most excited about

from the first three or four months of this year.

Tina, thanks for being on.

Thanks for having me. Jumana, welcome.

Happy New Year.

So let's jump right into it.

The first book I want to talk about is really a major book known has seen it.

No one will probably see it until the very last minute.

It comes out in mid-April.

And it is Knife by Salman Rushdie.

It is a memoir.

Tina, take it away.

It's a memoir. The subtitle take it away. It's a memoir.

The subtitle says it all, Meditations After an Attempted Murder.

As you may remember, Rushty was stabbed on stage at a Summer Arts Institute in upstate New York in August

2022 right before he was set to give his talk. It was a knife attack. It left him

blind in one eye. It affected nerves in his hands. I think there may be other damage that we don't know about and won't find out about until we read the book itself.

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