Best Pachinko Podcasts (2024)

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21st Century Books Special Edition: Min Jin Lee on 'Pachinko' 34:58

19d ago34:58

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As part of its recent "100 Best Books of the 21st Century" project, The New York Times Book Review is interviewing some of the authors whose books appeared on the list. This week, Min Jin Lee joins host Gilbert Cruz to discuss her novel, as well as the book she's read the most times — George Eliot's "Middlemarch." “I’m willing to say it’s the best …

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Liz Moore on Her Summer Camp Mystery "The God of the Woods" 39:39

22h ago39:39

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A summer camp in the Adirondacks. A rich girl gone missing, 14 years after her older brother also disappeared. A prominent local family harboring dark secrets. Liz Moore’s new novel, “The God in the Woods,” turns these elements into a complex and suspenseful meditation on parenting and social class and the rituals of summer friendship. On this week…

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Moment 123 Fall of an Empire (w/ Shawn) 1:13:01

11h ago1:13:01

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Makgeolli Moments마모 Moment 123 Fall of an Empire (w/ Shawn)ABC, it's easy as 1,2,3Art by:Instagram.com/mwdoodlydoosGuest host:Instagram.com/perpetualmusingstandingindoorways.blog--- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/makgeollimoments/support

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What We're Reading This Summer 32:34

8d ago32:34

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It’s August, which means that Labor Day and back-to-school are just around the corner. The vacation that seemed so leisurely a month ago suddenly feels a little more frantic. But there’s still time to squeeze in a last batch of summer reading. On this week’s episode, host Gilbert Cruz chats with his colleagues Joumana Khatib and Anna Dubenko about …

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21st Century Books Special Edition: George Saunders on 'Lincoln in the Bardo' 41:21

12d ago41:21

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As part of its recent "100 Best Books of the 21st Century" project, The New York Times Book Review is interviewing some of the authors whose books appeared on the list. This week, George Saunders — who had three books on the list, including his short story collections "Pastoralia" and "Tenth of December" — joins host Gilbert Cruz to discuss his nov…

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Sarah Jessica Parker on Her Life in Publishing 35:44

11d ago35:44

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Sarah Jessica Parker has been a familiar presence on TV, movie screens and Broadway stages for five decades. But since 2016 she has also been a force in the book world, initially at the helm of the fiction imprint SJP for Hogarth and for the past two years with SJP Lit, an imprint at the independent publisher Zando. Parker visits the podcast this w…

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Moment 122 Finally (w/ 우리 Woori) 1:07:06

14d ago1:07:06

1:07:06

Makgeolli Moments마모 Moment 122 Finally (w/ 우리 Woori)07262024We finally doing this Art by:Instagram.com/mwdoodlydoosFollow your guest host:instagram.com/by.hoso대전 중구 충무로 40 지하층,1층,3층0507-1473-1775--- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/makgeollimoments/support

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Book Club: Let's Talk About "The Talented Mr. Ripley," by Patricia Highsmith 46:12

22d ago46:12

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Patricia Highsmith’s 1955 thriller “The Talented Mr. Ripley” follows a young, down-on-his-luck scammer, Tom Ripley, who is looking to reverse his fortunes. When he receives a job offer to go to Italy and retrieve Dickie Greenleaf, a rich socialite on an endless holiday, Tom finds the perfect opportunity to work his way into the upper crust. But as …

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21st Century Books Special Edition: Colson Whitehead on 'The Underground Railroad' 36:20

22d ago36:20

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What It's Like to Write a King Arthur Tale 32:46

25d ago32:46

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Lev Grossman, author of fantasy novel "The Magicians" and its two sequels, joins host Gilbert Cruz to talk about writing his version of Camelot in "The Bright Sword: A Novel of King Arthur."By The New York Times

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The 100 Best Books of the 21st Century 37:05

1M ago37:05

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This week The New York Times Book Review rolled out the results of an ambitious survey it conducted to determine the best books of the 21st century so far. On this week’s episode, Gilbert Cruz chats with fellow editors Tina Jordan, Scott Heller and Joumana Khatib about the results of that survey and about the project itself, including the willingne…

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Book Club: 'Headshot,' by Rita Bullwinkel 34:06

2M ago34:06

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Rita Bullwinkel’s impressive debut novel, “Headshot,” follows eight teenagers fighting in the Daughters of America Cup, a youth women’s boxing tournament staged in a dilapidated gym in Reno. Each chapter details a match between fighters, bout after bout, until finally a champion is declared. We are thrown into the high-octane theater of each fight,…

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Griffin Dunne on His Joyful and Tragic Family Memoir 37:50

2M ago37:50

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Every family has its stories, and every family has its drama — and some families, like the one the actor and director Griffin Dunne was born into, have an excess of both. His uncle was the writer John Gregory Dunne, his aunt was Joan Didion and his father was Dominick Dunne, who became famous for his Vanity Fair dispatches from the trial of the man…

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10 Books to Check Out This Summer 28:27

2M ago28:27

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Summer is upon us and you're going to need a few books to read. Book Review editors Elisabeth Egan and Joumana Khatib join host Gilbert Cruz to talk through a few titles they're looking forward to over the next several months. Books discussed in this episode: "Farewell, Amethystine," by Walter Mosley "The Cliffs," by J. Courtney Sullivan "Horror Mo…

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The Porter with Dev Singh & Sandy Pereira 1:15:06

2M ago1:15:06

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Today’s episode is a master series that took place in Toronto on September 26th 2023. It is an in depth conversation with award winning editors Dev Singh and Sandy Pereira, they discuss their work on the acclaimed CBC / BET+ historic drama series ‘The Porter’. The show won a record 12 Canadian Screen Awards in April of 2023, including the ‘Best Pic…

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Moment 121 Not Like Us (w/ your host) 52:47

2M ago52:47

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Makgeolli Moments마모Moment 121 Not Like Us (w/ your host)06102024Bear with me for a second, let me put ya'll on gameArt by:instagram.com/mwdoodlydoosFollow us:anchor.fm/makgeollimomentsinstagram.com/makgeollimomentsfacebook.com/mamomakgeollimoments--- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/makgeollimoments/support…

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Elin Hilderbrand on Her Final Nantucket Summer Book 37:38

2M ago37:38

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For many years now, Elin Hilderbrand has published a novel every summer set on the island of Nantucket. With her 30th book, 'Swan Song,' the bestselling author says she will step off that hamster wheel and try something new. On this week's episode, she and host Gilbert Cruz talk about her career, what she's reading, and what's next.…

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Let's Talk About Percival Everett's 'James' 45:40

3M ago45:40

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The broad outlines of "James" will be immediately familiar to anyone with even a basic knowledge of American literature: A boy named Huckleberry Finn and an enslaved man named Jim are fleeing down the Mississippi River together, each in search of his own kind of freedom. But where Mark Twain’s “Adventures of Huckleberry Finn” treated Jim as a secon…

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Writing About NASA's Most Shocking Moment 43:03

3M ago43:03

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The year 1986 was notable for two big disasters, both of them attributable to human error and bureaucratic negligence at competing super powers: the Chernobyl nuclear accident in the Soviet Union and the explosion of the Space Shuttle Challenger in the United States. The journalist Adam Higginbotham wrote about Chernobyl in his 2019 book, “Midnight…

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EditCon 2023: Vancouver Women in Post 38:53

3M ago38:53

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Today’s episode was part of EditCon 2023 that took place in Vancouver on February 25th. Women in Post with Daria Ellerman, CCE (Editor: VIRGIN RIVER), Buket Biles (Post Coordinator: SNOWPIERCER) and Lisa Pham Flowers (Assistant Editor: FIREFLY LANE). They talk with moderator Nicole Ratcliffe, CCE about remote workflows, the importance of communicat…

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Fantasy Superstar Leigh Bardugo on Her New Novel 41:44

3M ago41:44

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In the world of fantasy fiction, Leigh Bardugo is royalty: Her Grishaverse novels are mainstays on the young adult best-seller list, her “Shadow and Bone” trilogy has been adapted for a Netflix series and her adult novels “Ninth House” and “Hell Bent” established her as a force to reckon with in the subgenre known as dark academia. Now Bardugo is b…

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Colm Toibin on His Sequel to 'Brooklyn' 44:19

4M ago44:19

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Colm Tóibín’s 2009 novel “Brooklyn” told the story of a meek young Irishwoman, Eilis Lacey, who emigrates to New York in the 1950s out of a sense of familial obligation and slowly, diligently begins building a new life for herself. A New York Times best seller, the book was also adapted into an Oscar-nominated movie starring Saoirse Ronan — and now…

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Book Club: Dolly Alderton's 'Good Material' 46:41

4M ago46:41

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How to explain the British writer Dolly Alderton to an American audience? It might be best to let her work speak for itself — it certainly does! — but Alderton is such a cultural phenomenon in her native England that some context is probably helpful: “Like Nora Ephron, With a British Twist” is the way The New York Times Book Review put it when we r…

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EditCon 2023: Down at Fraggle Rock 1:30:03

4M ago1:30:03

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An international hit in the 80s and beloved for many viewers to this day, FRAGGLE ROCK comes back more colorful, high-energy and furrier than before. In this episode Paul Winestock, CCE, Duncan Christie, CCE and Marianna Khoury with Paul Ackerley discuss their experiences and work process in the edit suite on this reboot for both the young and youn…

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100 Years of Simon & Schuster 31:22

4M ago31:22

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Simon & Schuster is not growing old quietly. The venerable publishing house — one of the industry’s so-called Big 5 — is celebrating its 100th birthday this month after a period of tumult that saw it put up for sale by its previous owner, pursued by its rival Penguin Random House in an acquisition bid that fell apart after the Justice Department wo…

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Looking Back at 50 Years of Stephen King 1:05:01

4M ago1:05:01

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This month marks the 50th anniversary of the publication of Stephen King’s first novel, “Carrie.” In the decades since, King has experimented with length, genre and style, but has always maintained his position as one of America’s most famous writers. On this week’s episode, host Gilbert Cruz talks to the novelist Grady Hendrix, who read and re-rea…

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EditCon 2023: Shaping Memories 1:35:58

5M ago1:35:58

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Documentary has the power and versatility in exploring urgent social subject matters, yet it can also embrace an intimate first-person narrative, or even become an experimentation of cinematic craftsmanship. In this episode we invited the editors from three critically acclaimed Canadian documentaries. Whether it’s the sensory and cinematic collabor…

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