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The Book Review

Inside The New York Times Book Review: ‘All the Single Ladies’

The Book Review

The New York Times

Books, Arts

4.23.7K Ratings

🗓️ 4 March 2016

⏱️ 52 minutes

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Summary

This week, Rebecca Traister talks about “All the Single Ladies”; Alexandra Alter has news from the publishing world; Ben Ratliff discusses “Every Song Ever”; Richard Armitage discusses his audiobook recording of “David Copperfield”; and Gregory Cowles has best-seller news. Pamela Paul is the host.

Transcript

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0:00.0

Our unmarried women bringing the country down are helping it rise up.

0:05.8

Rebecca Tracer will be here to talk about rise of the single ladies.

0:09.2

Across classes, across races, across the country, the marriage pattern is altered and we haven't

0:15.4

really considered how this changes expectations and scope for adult American women.

0:21.0

How do you play every single character in David Copperfield?

0:23.7

Actor Richard Armitage will join us to talk about his narration of Dickens Most Beloved

0:28.2

Novel.

0:29.2

This will turn out to be the hero of my own life.

0:32.0

Or whether that station will be held by anyone else, these pages must show.

0:36.4

What makes listening to music different in the digital age?

0:39.0

Ben Ratliffe will be here to talk about his new book, Every Song Ever.

0:42.6

The listener has new power, accesses power, all of a sudden listeners are more powerful.

0:47.0

What are we going to do with that power?

0:49.4

And how might we use it to listen more broadly instead of going down a bottomless comfort

0:57.4

zone?

0:58.4

Walter will give us an update from the publishing world and great coals to his bestseller

1:02.3

news.

1:03.3

This is Inside the New York Times Book Review.

1:05.0

I'm Pamela Paul.

1:13.2

Rebecca Tracer is here to talk about her new book, All the Single Ladies Unmarried Women

1:17.4

and the Rise of an Independent Nation.

1:19.4

I am so happy to be here.

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