{"podcast":{"title":"The Book Review","slug":"the-book-review-415412","podcast_index_feed_id":415412,"rss_url":"https://feeds.simplecast.com/MssIhx9y","website_url":"https://www.nytimes.com/column/book-review-podcast","image_url":"https://image.simplecastcdn.com/images/621229bd-2556-4ce6-8ae0-9fa3046f9da9/1e9abcf9-af9c-4105-8b1b-8e05c60c1fcf/3000x3000/8ce0200f165a6c5cafeecc11ac3294f228d9e46d8af6079a5a9db0fe3b62c8fe48ee2dbb6b2460bf705631e82a06b6b79e940141aad774c868833e2a204ce41b.jpeg?aid=rss_feed","author":"The New York Times","episode_count":600,"summary":"The world's top authors and critics join host Gilbert Cruz 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. Subscribe today at nytimes.com/podcasts or on Apple Podcasts and Spotify. You can also subscribe via your favorite podcast app here https://www.nytimes.com/activate-access/audio?source=podcatcher. For more podcasts and narrated articles, download The New York Times app at nytimes.com/app.","last_synced_at":"2026-08-02T02:20:07.221588+00:00","page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/the-book-review-415412"},"episode":{"title":"Book Club: Let's Talk About 'Transcription,' by Ben Lerner","slug":"book-club-let-s-talk-about-transcription-by-ben-lerner","published_at":"2026-05-30T03:00:00+00:00","page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/the-book-review-415412/book-club-let-s-talk-about-transcription-by-ben-lerner","show_page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/the-book-review-415412","url":"https://www.nytimes.com/column/book-review-podcast","audio_url":"https://dts.podtrac.com/redirect.mp3/pdst.fm/e/pfx.vpixl.com/6qj4J/pscrb.fm/rss/p/nyt.simplecastaudio.com/621229bd-2556-4ce6-8ae0-9fa3046f9da9/episodes/f7737377-b567-407d-8191-4cb167808002/audio/128/default.mp3?aid=rss_feed&awCollectionId=621229bd-2556-4ce6-8ae0-9fa3046f9da9&awEpisodeId=f7737377-b567-407d-8191-4cb167808002&feed=MssIhx9y","summary":"Ben Lerner’s slender new novel, “Transcription,” is just 130 pages long, yet it cracks open some of our most colossal and enduring philosophical questions. On this episode, MJ Franklin discusses “Transcription” with fellow Book Review editors Gregory Cowles and Alexandra Jacobs.","meta_description":"Ben Lerner’s slender new novel, “Transcription,” is just 130 pages long, yet it cracks open some of our most colossal and enduring philosophical questions…","key_points":[],"chapters":[],"topics":[],"duration_seconds":2841,"processing_state":"not_requested","actions":[{"name":"request_transcript","method":"POST","url":"https://stenobird.com/v1/public/podcasts/the-book-review-415412/episodes/book-club-let-s-talk-about-transcription-by-ben-lerner/transcription-requests","description":"Idempotently request low-priority transcript generation for this episode."},{"name":"read_markdown","method":"GET","url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/the-book-review-415412/book-club-let-s-talk-about-transcription-by-ben-lerner.md","description":"Read the agent-friendly Markdown representation of this episode resource."}]}}