Unabridged: That New York Times List Discussed and Debated

The Stacks

Traci Thomas

Literature, Society & Culture, Books, Arts

4.8 • 1.8K Ratings

🗓️ 19 July 2024

⏱️ 13 minutes

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This edition of The Stacks Unabridged is dedicated to the New York Times’ 100 Best Books of the 21st Century. First we talk with Gilbert Cruz, the editor of the NYT Book Review, about the creation of the list and all the excitement it generated. Then, we welcome a panel of readers - Sara Hildreth, Hunter McClendon and Lupita Aquino - to discuss and debate the list, sharing our biggest takeaways, what we loved and hated, and which books we would add. We also try to figure out what the list says about US culture at large.

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0:00.0	Hello everyone it's me Tracy Thomas host of the Stacks I am here today with another
0:04.5	bonus episode of the podcast the Stacks and Abridged today's episode I am
0:09.4	thrilled about you might have heard last week the New York Times released a list of the 100 best
0:15.8	books at the 21st century the book caused me to lose sleep maybe go a little bit
0:21.0	insane it was a totally fantastic week to be a reader.
0:24.6	And today I am joined first by Gilbert Cruz,
0:27.9	who is the editor of the book section at the New York Times.
0:30.8	He was in charge of this project.
0:32.4	I get to ask him my most pressing
0:34.0	questions about procedure and voters and how the list came together. And then I have put
0:39.5	together a panel of three of my favorite reader friends to discuss the list what we
0:44.1	liked what we didn't like all of that I am joined by Sarah Hildreth
0:47.4	Lupita Aquino and Hunter McClendon and we talk about this list we're going going deep people. Now if you're listening to this
0:55.0	episode and it cuts off about 10 minutes in that means you are not a member of
0:59.2	the Stax Pack and these episodes are for supporters of the show.
1:02.9	So head to Patreon.com slash the Stacks.
1:06.4	Join the Stacks Pack, get access to this episode
1:09.1	and all of our other bonus episodes.
1:10.9	Plus, you can join the discord get the mega challenge
1:14.2	the non-fiction reading guide all of that and that's not really your thing you can
1:19.3	go to Tracy Thomas dot sub-stack.com and subscribe to my newsletter unstacked to get access to this episode.
1:26.0	Thank you to everyone who is a subscriber to either the Patreon or the newsletter.
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