Two Times Reporters on ‘The Education of Brett Kavanaugh’
The Book Review
The New York Times
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🗓️ 20 September 2019
⏱️ 66 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | What do we still not know about Brett Kavanaugh's road to the Supreme Court? |
| 0:06.0 | Robin Pogorbin and Kate Kelly will be here to discuss their new book, The Education of |
| 0:10.6 | Brett Kavanaugh. |
| 0:12.2 | What makes Tim Wyndon one of Australia's most beloved novelists? |
| 0:15.7 | John Williams spoke to the author at the Edinburgh Book Festival, and we've got the highlights. |
| 0:20.4 | Plus, our critics will talk about the latest in literary criticism. |
| 0:24.0 | This is the Book Review Podcast from The New York Times. |
| 0:26.4 | I'm Pamela Paul. |
| 0:29.4 | Joining us now from Washington, my colleagues Kate Kelly and Robin Pogorbin to talk about |
| 0:34.2 | their new book, The Education of Brett Kavanaugh, An Investigation. |
| 0:38.7 | Robin Kate, thanks so much for being here. |
| 0:40.2 | Thanks for having us. |
| 0:41.2 | Thank you. |
| 0:42.2 | So, this book has made lots of news this week, a lot of controversy. |
| 0:47.3 | We will get to that eventually, but I want to kind of proceed in chronological order here, |
| 0:52.2 | talk about a little bit the genesis of the stories that led up to the book and how it came |
| 0:57.6 | to be that you two work together on those stories because Kate, your reporter who covers |
| 1:03.0 | Wall Street for our business desk and Robin, your reporter for culture, often writing about |
| 1:08.6 | New York City's biggest cultural institutions and about the art world, how did you get together |
| 1:12.8 | and start reporting on Brett Kavanaugh? |
| 1:15.1 | Kate and I were both pulled into this coverage because of our personal connections to this |
| 1:19.0 | story. |
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