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The Book Review

The New York Times

Books, Arts

4.0 • 3.9K Ratings

🗓️ 6 March 2026

⏱️ 38 minutes

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Summary

Bob Crawford discusses the leap from stage to page and why his new book, “America’s Founding Son,” feels so relevant.

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0:00.0	Hi, it's Gilbert.
0:02.3	Before we start the show, I want to let you know that we are going to be talking with the author of Project Hill Mary in an upcoming episode.
0:10.2	I know that New York Times readers voted this book, one of their top 100 books of the 21st century.
0:17.6	And more importantly to some, there's a movie adaptation starring Ron Gosling that's coming
0:22.4	out in just a couple of weeks. So I'd love to hear from you. What questions do you have for
0:27.6	Andy Weir, the author of Project Hail Mary? Let me know, and I may ask him your question when I talk to him.
0:33.8	You can send your questions by email to the book review at nytimes.com.
0:38.3	That is the book review at nytimes.com.
0:42.3	You can also find a link to submit your questions in the show notes for this episode.
0:46.5	And now, on to this week's show.
0:53.2	So I pitched this as a beach read, something that you could, if you have two weeks off or a week off, you can finish this book.
1:00.9	The challenge was, I want a historian to read through that and go, oh, yeah, okay.
1:06.2	Yeah, this guy, this guy did the work.
1:08.1	He did the work.
1:08.9	Were you worried about that?
1:10.1	It's like, I have to get this right.
1:12.1	Absolutely worried.
1:13.0	Absolutely.
1:13.7	Terrified.
1:14.9	Yeah.
1:17.0	I'm Gilbert Cruz.
1:18.9	This is the book review from the New York Times.
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