Stanley Tucci on His Year in Eating and a Look at the National Book Awards

The Book Review

The New York Times

Books, Arts

4.2 • 3.7K Ratings

🗓️ 11 October 2024

⏱️ 47 minutes

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The actor-director-producer Stanley Tucci is also, famously, an avid eater. He explored his enthusiasm for food in his 2021 memoir “Taste,” and now a food diary, “What I Ate in One Year." In this week’s episode, Tucci discusses his new book with host Gilbert Cruz and talks about bad meals, his food idol and his path to tracking a year’s worth of eating. Gilbert also chats with The Book Review's Joumana Khatib about the National Book Award finalists in fiction and nonfiction.

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0:00.0	I'm Gilbert Cruz editor of the New York Times Book Review and this is the book review
0:08.0	podcast. On this week's episode I'm joined by Stanley Tucci to talk about his new book.
0:13.2	We're going to get to that conversation after the break.
0:15.4	First, however, Jumanakatee, an editor here at the book review,
0:18.8	is with me for a short look at the National Book Awards,
0:21.8	which will take place in mid-November.
0:23.7	Specifically we're looking at the five fiction and five non-fiction titles they are in the
0:27.9	running. We're not going to be talking about poetry or translated literature or
0:32.3	young people's literature all of which are important in
0:35.0	their own ways, but which I am certainly less familiar with.
0:37.8	Nomine E.
0:38.8	Yumanah, hi.
0:39.8	Hi, Gilbert, thanks for having me on.
0:46.0	Five and five. We've both read them all.
0:48.0	That's not sure at all.
0:50.0	You probably read more than I have.
0:51.0	Which do you want to start with?
0:52.0	Let's start with?
0:52.6	Let's start with fiction.
0:54.0	And then we can go into non-fiction.
0:55.8	Let's start in chronological order of what came out first this year.
0:59.7	So that would be Hicham Matar's book, My Friends.
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