Hello, I'm Gilbert Cruz, editor of the New York Times book review, and this is the book review podcast.

This week, we have our monthly book club conversation hosted by M.J. Franklin.

And this time around, it's one of the biggest books of the year, certainly one of the

biggest books of the fall, Intermezzo by Sally Rooney. Talking about it with MJ are our regular

podcast panelists, Jumanicatib, as well as two editors here at the book review, Sadie Stein and

Dave Kim. In addition to discussing the book,, Sadie Stein and Dave Kim.

In addition to discussing the book, they brought in several of the comments that readers and some of you listeners left on our site.

If you haven't done so yet, I urge you to head on over to our book club discussion at

NYTimes.com and Wayin Yourself.

Let's turn to our book club discussion.

Hello, and welcome to another book club episode of the Book Review podcast. I'm M.J. Franklin,

I'm an editor here at the New York Times Book Review, and for this month's book club,

we're talking about Intermezzo by Sally Rooney. Ritcho's Intermezzo is our October book club book

for the simple reason that it is easily one of the busies books of the fall. Anticipation

for this latest release was high because across the board, Sally Rooney's books have been commercial

joggernauts, and they've met with

critical acclaim. So readers were just really excited to see what she was up to next. And that's

definitely been the case with Intermezzo. Even before this came out, there was so much buzz and conversation.

Then the book finally did publish, and it was an instant bestseller. So this is all to say.

A lot of people are reading InterMETS though, and we wanted to be there with you to talk about it.

And speaking of talking about it, I have three wonderful colleagues joining me in the studio to discuss this novel.

First, we have a returning book clubber, Jumana Khatib.

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