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🗓️ 26 January 2024
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0:24.0 | We hear today to revisit on the occasion of the 25th anniversary of the publishing of Colson Whitehead's debut novel, The Intuitionist, |
0:36.3 | a remarkable book in its own right for a lot of reasons we'll get into, but then of course |
0:39.8 | the beginning of an auspicious literary career that continues to be, he's in his prime |
0:49.2 | still, Rebecca, he's in his prime still. |
0:51.8 | Maybe taking a little bit of a holiday of a kind with the |
0:55.5 | carnie books. I mean you know we've talked about this before. We're having a good time. |
0:58.3 | It's so interesting to see some of the things he's interested in in in those books here |
1:01.8 | still, New York City places details but a |
1:09.6 | really amazing books I thought maybe we'd start with our origin stories when's the first time you |
1:13.1 | encountered what had was that this book if this book what was your memory of it how did it |
1:16.4 | come to be I've got a good story well I've got an important story to me about |
1:20.1 | this I may have told you before but why don't you tell me first. |
1:23.0 | Yeah, so the intuitionist came out in 1999. |
1:27.2 | I was a sophomore in high school. |
1:28.8 | I completely missed it. |
1:29.8 | This is these are the years that I'm carrying around Oprah Picks trying to make friends with other |
1:34.3 | nerds. I picked this up, I think this was my first Coulson Whitehead, I picked it up off of a |
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