I'm Gilbert Cruz, editor of the New York Times Book Review, and this is the Book Review

Podcast. Before we dive into this

week's episode a brief announcement. This year we've started to do some book club

episodes every four to six weeks.

Maybe you've heard some of them.

We have a small group of editors talking in depth

about a title that we think people are reading

or will be interested in.

We've done James McBride's The Heaven and Earth Grocery Store, Barbara King Solver's Demon Copperhead,

Dolly Alderton's Good Material, and I think a couple of others.

Our next book club discussion is going to be on

Percful Everett's James. This is a book that retails the events of Mark Twain's book Huckleberry Finn from the perspective of Jim the enslaved man that Huck travels down the Mississippi with.

This episode is going to drop at the end of May, so you have a few weeks to get the book, read the book, and then listen

to our discussion hopefully.

I really enjoyed James, I think it's a great book, and I hope that you enjoyed too. On the podcast this week, however, we have a superstar in the world of fantasy fiction.

Lee Bardugo is the author behind the Shadow and Bone

trilogy, the novel's ninth house in Hellbent, and her latest The Familiar.

Lee, welcome to the Book review podcast. Thank you.

So you've written trilogies, you've written sequels to books,

forgive me if I can't say the word duality, which I feel like I've never heard before recently?

I honestly feel about the word duality. which I feel like I've never heard before recently

I honestly feel about the word doology the way I feel about the word webinar like I don't

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