21st Century Books Special Edition: Isabel Wilkerson on 'The Warmth of Other Suns'

The Book Review

The New York Times

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🗓️ 26 August 2024

⏱️ 39 minutes

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As part of its recent "100 Best Books of the 21st Century" project, The New York Times Book Review is interviewing some of the authors whose books appeared on the list. This week, Isabel Wilkerson joins host Gilbert Cruz to discuss her 2010 book about the Great Migration.

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0:00.0	I'm Gilbert Cruz, editor of the New York Times Book Review and this is the Book Review
0:11.9	Podcast Special Edition.
0:14.0	This summer, in addition to our regular episodes,
0:17.0	we have a series of interviews with authors
0:19.0	whose books made our list,
0:21.0	the hundred best books, of the 21st century.
0:24.0	And this is our final one in the series, and it's a wonderful one to end on.
0:28.0	This week I'm joined by Isabel Wilkerson,
0:31.0	author of the 2010 book, The Werenth of Other Sons, the epic story of America's
0:36.5	Great Migration.
0:38.1	It is the best non-fiction book of this century, as chosen by just over 500 respondents to our poll from earlier this summer.
0:46.0	Isabel is the former Chicago Bureau Chief for the New York Times.
0:51.0	She's a winner of a Pulitzer Prize in feature writing and she's the author of the
0:55.2	2020 book, Cast, The Origins of Our Discontent.
0:59.0	Isabel, welcome to the book review podcast. Oh, thank you for having me.
1:07.0	Your book took its title from Richard Wright, the author of Black Boy.
1:13.4	When did you know that was the title?
1:15.3	Very evocative.
1:16.2	Were there other titles that were in the running?
1:18.8	That is a great question because this book was
1:22.0	a nameless orphan child for most of the time I was working on it.
1:25.2	I did not have a title. It actually peeved me and worried me over the course of the time I was working on this book.
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