Book Club: 'Headshot,' by Rita Bullwinkel

The Book Review

The New York Times

Books, Arts

4.2 • 3.7K Ratings

🗓️ 28 June 2024

⏱️ 34 minutes

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Summary

Rita Bullwinkel’s impressive debut novel, “Headshot,” follows eight teenagers fighting in a youth women’s boxing tournament. Each chapter details a match between fighters, bout after bout, until finally a champion is declared. In this week’s spoiler-filled episode, the Book Review’s MJ Franklin discusses the book with his colleagues Joumana Khatib and Lauren Christensen.

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0:00.0	Hello and welcome to another book club episode of the Book Review podcast. I'm MJ Franklin. I'm an editor here at the New York Times
0:14.2	book review and for this month's book club we're talking about Rita Boelinkle's
0:18.2	new novel, Headshot.
0:21.6	Joining me to discuss the novel art too remarkable colleagues.
0:28.0	First up, a fellow editor here, Lauren Christensen.
0:32.0	Hello Lauren. Hey, I'm Jay.
0:34.0	Lauren, I think you were last on the show for our best books of 2023 episode, speaking so beautifully,
0:40.2	so eloquently about Northwoods by Daniel Mason.
0:43.5	And also one exciting thing is, Lauren, you just had a baby.
0:47.2	I did.
0:48.2	Yeah, I know, you're mentioning the last time I was on here,
0:49.7	it feels like a lifetime ago.
0:51.9	I guess it wasn't that long. I just want to say one welcome
0:54.5	back and to you a wholehearted congratulations so happy for you. Thank you
0:57.8	MJ. Thanks for having me on. Our other guest is a voice you know and love
1:02.0	Zumanakatib who was just on talking about summer books, like two weeks ago.
1:06.4	Time flies, it feels like another lifetime ago, but thank you for having me back.
1:11.0	Welcome back. And you may also remember Zumana from our Erasure episode and our James episode.
1:18.0	Long time book club.
1:19.0	Welcome back.
1:20.0	Delighted to be here.
1:22.0	And now on onto our book,
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