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Dwight Garner’s book recommendations in 2019

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Every episode from 2019, newest first

Times Critics Talk About Their Year-End Lists

The Book Review · 2019-12-20

Trust Exercise by Susan Choi · discussed · at 3:59
The Old Drift by Namwali Serpell · discussed · at 4:02
Normal People by Sally Rooney · discussed · at 4:07

Poems About the Challenges of Life After Prison

The Book Review · 2019-12-13

The Book of Eating by Adam Platt · discussed · at 45:00
Serious eats by Ed Levine · discussed · at 45:12

Thomas Chatterton Williams on ‘Unlearning Race’

The Book Review · 2019-10-18

Frankissstein by Jeanette Winterson · discussed · at 1:09:22

Two Times Reporters on ‘The Education of Brett Kavanaugh’

The Book Review · 2019-09-20

Night Boat To Tangier by Kevin Barry · recommended · at 1:03:59

Trump, TV and America

The Book Review · 2019-09-06

Human Relations and Other Difficulties by Mary-Kay Wilmers · discussed · at 51:31
Love, Nina by Nina Stibbe · discussed · at 52:18

The Politicization of Academic Life

The Book Review · 2019-08-23

Doxology by Nell Zink · recommended · at 48:30

Toni Morrison's Legacy

The Book Review · 2019-08-09

Song of Solomon by Toni Morrison · discussed · at 13:30
Beloved by Toni Morrison · discussed · at 13:30
The Bluest Eye by Toni Morrison · discussed · at 13:30

The Fight for the Supreme Court

The Book Review · 2019-08-02

Our Women on the Ground by Zahra Hankir · discussed · at 54:55

Colson Whitehead Talks About 'The Nickel Boys'

The Book Review · 2019-07-19

Turbulence by David Szalay · discussed · at 47:13
Airport by Arthur Hailey · discussed · at 51:45

Picking the Best Memoirs Since 1969

The Book Review · 2019-07-05

Stop-time by Frank Conroy · discussed · at 5:23
With the Old Breed by E. B. Sledge · discussed · at 5:29
Hold still by Sally Mann · discussed · at 7:46
Travels with Lizbeth by Lars Eighner · discussed · at 12:54
Wave by Sonali Deraniyagala · discussed · at 14:47
Growing up by Russell Baker · discussed · at 15:19
Open by Andre Agassi · discussed · at 17:14
The Tender Bar by J. R. Moehringer · discussed · at 17:14
Priestdaddy by Patricia Lockwood · discussed · at 20:10
Minor characters by Joyce Johnson · discussed · at 26:25
Self-consciousness by John Updike · discussed · at 26:40
On Fire by Larry Brown · discussed · at 26:55
Experience by Martin Amis · discussed · at 30:01

The World's Far Corners and Deepest Depths

The Book Review · 2019-06-14

The Capital by Robert Menasse · recommended · at 55:29

Harper Lee's Unwritten True-Crime Book

The Book Review · 2019-05-17

Swamplandia! by Karen Russell · discussed · at 42:15
Orange World and Other Stories by Karen Russell · discussed · at 42:36

Laila Lalami on 'The Other Americans'

The Book Review · 2019-05-03

Spring by Ali Smith · discussed · at 44:51

Ruth Reichl's Delicious New Memoir

The Book Review · 2019-04-12

Normal People by Sally Rooney · recommended · at 1:04:04

Preet Bharara on the Rule of Law

The Book Review · 2019-03-29

The Old Drift by Namwali Serpell · recommended · at 45:31
Midnight's Children by Salman Rushdie · discussed · at 46:29
One Hundred Years of Solitude by Gabriel García Márquez · discussed · at 46:29

Isaac Mizrahi on His New Memoir

The Book Review · 2019-03-15

Arturo's Island by Elsa Morante · discussed · at 50:15
History by Elsa Morante · discussed · at 51:43

Seeking Silence

The Book Review · 2019-02-22

The threat by Andrew McCabe · discussed · at 36:31

Marlon James Talks About His Epic New Trilogy

The Book Review · 2019-02-08

The Giant's House by Elizabeth Mccracken · discussed · at 37:07
Bowlaway by Elizabeth McCracken · critiqued · at 37:29
An exact replica of a figment of my imagination by Elizabeth McCracken · discussed · at 38:39
Nobody's Looking at You by Janet Malcolm · critiqued · at 39:58

Dani Shapiro on Her Surprising 'Inheritance'

The Book Review · 2019-01-25

The Elephant in the Room by Tommy Tomlinson · discussed · at 1:04:59

Other mentions in 2019 (15: passing, ad reads, own books)