Inside The New York Times Book Review: Reading ‘Pride and Prejudice’

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The New York Times

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4.2 • 3.7K Ratings

🗓️ 11 December 2015

⏱️ 50 minutes

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Summary

This week, Rosamund Pike talks about recording “Pride and Prejudice” as an audiobook; Alexandra Alter has news from the publishing world; Kaiama Glover discusses the work of Patrick Modiano; James Shapiro on “The Year of Lear”; feedback from readers; and Gregory Cowles has best-seller news. Pamela Paul is the host.

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0:00.0	What's it like reading, Pride and Prejudice in its entirety allowed?
0:07.2	Rosamond Pike will join us to talk about her experience recording a new audio edition
0:12.3	of the Jane Austen classic.
0:14.1	It is a truth universally acknowledged that a single man in possession of a good fortune
0:19.6	must be in want of a wife.
0:21.9	Now that more books by last year's Nobel Prize winner Patrick Modiano have been translated
0:26.1	into English, which one should you read?
0:28.6	Pajama Glover, who reviews seven of those books in this week's issue, will be here to discuss.
0:33.9	And that's, you know, I call it in the review, the gritted teethness of his novels, is that
0:38.0	the prose tells you what it seems he needs to get out.
0:42.5	What was Shakespeare's world like in 1606?
0:45.2	James Shapiro will be here to talk about his new book, The Year of Lear.
0:48.6	I'm convinced that if you understand writers responding to the pressures of that time, you
0:54.0	can appreciate the works a bit more.
0:55.8	Alexander Alter will give us an update from the literary world.
0:59.1	John Williams will share our readers and listeners' favorite books of 2015 and Greg
1:03.8	Cole's has best cellar news.
1:06.1	This is Inside the New York Times Book Review, I'm Pamela Paul.
1:10.2	Is he married or single?
1:14.9	Oh, single my dear to be sure.
1:18.3	A single man of large fortune four or five thousand a year.
1:22.5	What a fine thing for our girls.
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