Susan Orlean on a Great Library Fire

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Susan Orlean on a Great Library Fire

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Oct 19, 2018

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Orlean discusses “The Library Book,” and Reid Hoffman talks about “Blitzscaling.”

Released:

Oct 19, 2018

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The world's top authors and critics join host Pamela Paul and editors at The New York Times Book Review to talk about the week's top books, what we're reading and what's going on in the literary world.

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