A.O. Scott, critic at The New York Times Book Review joins us to talk about what he looks for in literature, why we read the things we do, his path to a career in journalism and more with Miwa Messer, host of Poured Over.

This episode of Poured Over was hosted by Miwa Messer and mixed by Harry Liang.

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Featured Books (Episode):

The Secret Garden by Frances Hodgson Burnett

Jane Eyre by Charlotte Brontë

Wide Sargasso Sea by Jean Rhys

Middlemarch by George Eliot

James by Percival Everett

Demon Copperhead by Barbara Kingsolver

Studies in Classic American Literature by D.H. Lawrence

Better Living Through Criticism by A.O. Scott

The Magician by Colm Tóibín

Brooklyn by Colm Tóibín

Long Island by Colm Tóibín

The Intuitionist by Colson Whitehead

Zone One by Colson Whitehead

The Remains of the Day by Kazuo Ishiguro

The Hours by Michael Cunningham

Lost in the City by Edward P. Jones