The Yearning for the Unexplained
The Book Review
The New York Times
4.0 • 3.9K Ratings
🗓️ 24 July 2020
⏱️ 52 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | Why do Americans love to believe in Hoax's conspiracy theories and alien |
| 0:12.4 | visitations? |
| 0:13.4 | Colin Dickie will be here to talk about his new book, The Unidentified. |
| 0:18.1 | Who was James Jesse Strang and how did he come to be known as King Strang? |
| 0:23.0 | Miles Harvey will join us to talk about his book, The King of Confidence. |
| 0:27.9 | Alexander Alter will give us an update from the publishing world, plus our critics will |
| 0:31.7 | join us for the latest in literary criticism. |
| 0:34.6 | This is the Book Review Podcast for the New York Times. |
| 0:37.2 | It's July 24th. |
| 0:38.6 | I'm Pamela Paul. |
| 0:48.3 | Colin Dickie joins us now from Brooklyn. |
| 0:50.2 | His new book is called The Unidentified, Mythical Monsters, Alien Encounters, and our obsession |
| 0:56.2 | with the unexplained. |
| 0:57.6 | Colin, thanks for being here. |
| 0:58.6 | Thanks so much for having me on. |
| 1:00.4 | I want to start by talking about another book, one that came out pretty much a hundred |
| 1:05.5 | years ago, with a fairly lured title. |
| 1:09.1 | What was the Book of the Damned? |
| 1:10.8 | Oh, the Book of the Damned. |
| 1:12.6 | So Charles Fort is the author of The Book of the Damned. |
| 1:15.7 | And he was a writer who, I think he was on a path to be a kind of, I guess what you would |
| 1:22.9 | call a crank writer. |
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