Randall Kennedy on 'Say It Loud!'

The Book Review

The New York Times

Books, Arts

4.2 • 3.7K Ratings

🗓️ 24 September 2021

⏱️ 74 minutes

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Kennedy discusses his new essay collection, and Mary Roach talks about “Fuzz: When Nature Breaks the Law.”

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0:00.0	How has Randall Kennedy's thinking about race and the law evolved over the past 20 years?
0:13.4	He'll join us to talk about his new collection of essays, Stay It Loud, on Race, Law,
0:19.1	History and Culture.
0:21.8	Speaking of law, can animals break the law?
0:26.2	Mary Roach will be here to talk about her new book, Fuzz.
0:29.9	His Harris will be here to talk about what's going on in the publishing world, plus our
0:33.9	critics will join us to talk about the latest and literary criticism.
0:38.0	This is the Book Review Podcast from the New York Times.
0:40.8	It's September 24th.
0:42.2	I'm Pamela Paul.
0:50.2	Randall Kennedy joins us now from Data Massachusetts.
0:52.9	His newest book is called Stay It Loud, on Race, Law, History and Culture.
0:59.4	Randall, thanks so much for being here.
1:01.3	Thank you.
1:02.3	Thank you for having me on.
1:03.3	Tell us about the origins of this book, which is a collection of 29 essays.
1:08.8	Well over the years, I've written lots of essays from magazines and newspapers.
1:14.5	I like writing essays.
1:16.7	I like writing book reviews.
1:19.4	And so I decided under the COVID cloud to collect them and to revise them, update
1:29.3	them.
1:30.3	And that's what I did.
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