Gilbert Cruz
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I'm the editor of the New York Times Book Review. I should have read more books on our list than this.
I'm the editor of the New York Times Book Review. I should have read more books on our list than this.
Yeah. I mean, look, I bring up all the time I still have not read Middlemarch by George Eliot, but I have read... I don't know, The Amazing Adventures of Cavalier and Clay by Michael Chabon, right? So which is more valuable? I don't think there's an answer to that. I think it's just where your taste leads you.
Yeah. I mean, look, I bring up all the time I still have not read Middlemarch by George Eliot, but I have read... I don't know, The Amazing Adventures of Cavalier and Clay by Michael Chabon, right? So which is more valuable? I don't think there's an answer to that. I think it's just where your taste leads you.
And I will say, if you look at this list of 100 and you see only one or two books that you want to read that you've never read before, then we succeeded. We did this whole thing and we found one book for you, the right book for you, success.
And I will say, if you look at this list of 100 and you see only one or two books that you want to read that you've never read before, then we succeeded. We did this whole thing and we found one book for you, the right book for you, success.
Absolutely. The one that stuck with me above all is Lincoln and the Bardo by George Saunders. A beautiful book, a book I should have read a long time ago. And it's a book that imagines Abraham Lincoln going to the cemetery where his son has been interred. And he is surrounded by a cacophony of voices, all these ghosts in the cemetery. And it was just so moving.
Absolutely. The one that stuck with me above all is Lincoln and the Bardo by George Saunders. A beautiful book, a book I should have read a long time ago. And it's a book that imagines Abraham Lincoln going to the cemetery where his son has been interred. And he is surrounded by a cacophony of voices, all these ghosts in the cemetery. And it was just so moving.
So beautiful, so odd and bizarre in its own way. I was like, everyone needs to read this immediately. I just, I did. I fell in love with it.
So beautiful, so odd and bizarre in its own way. I was like, everyone needs to read this immediately. I just, I did. I fell in love with it.