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	Podcast:		The Brian Lehrer Show
	Episode:		The City’s Book Club Is Back
	Category:		News & Politics
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	Publish Date:		2018-04-17 14:58:15
	Description:		"One Book, One New York" is a city-wide project where New Yorkers will read the same book at the same time. Julie Menin, the media and entertainment commissioner for New York City, and authors Jennifer Egan, Esmeralda Santiago, Imbolo Mbue, Hari Kunzru and Barry Jenkins (whose film "Moonlight" won an Academy Award), who is the screenwriter and director of a film adaptation of James Baldwin's If Beale Street Could Talk, join us to talk about the books New Yorkers are voting on now, to choose which book the whole city will read. Here are this year's final five: Manhattan Beach (Scribner, October 2017) by Jennifer Egan When I Was Puerto Rican: A Memoir (Da Capo Press, February 2006) by Esmeralda Santiago White Tears: A novel (Knopf, March 2017) by Hari Kunzru Behold the Dreamers: A Novel (Random House, August 2016) by Imbolo Mbue If Beale Street Could Talk (The Dial Press, 1974) by James Baldwin Once you've made your pick, you can vote here.
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