Romans saw it as an ostentatiously endowed diva of a gym even though it was little larger or better outfitted than the kind of health club you find in any strip mall in any American excerpt . It had a modest pool,-- "a weight room with scores of machines, a glass walled exercise studio for calisthenics and perhaps two dozen treadmills, Stairmasters, recumbent bikes and the like. It was darkerthan any American gym I knew, making me wonder if Italians considered mood lighting a catalyst for working out. I was thinking along the wrong lines. Working out wasn't really the
we'll release you for an absurd Ransom amount uh and you know he said we don't have that kind of money and it finally excerpt from my
through um a few uh of my chapters and then again after that we'll we'll have a little dialogue um I'll be reading two excerpts from my book one at the beginning and then one at the end and here is an openingparagraph uh from my
Thank you so much. The excerpt was excellent. I'm really excited to read the rest.
The myth of the rusalka is a Polish and Slavic myth about a water spirit. The excerpt that I read at the beginning is actually sort of a retelling of that myth. She's sort of a wraith.
pregnant, so it's a rough homecoming. And after a very short time back in her house, she discovers that she's pretty unhappy to be home. So this is where we're going to start the excerpt . And you'll see why I chose this excerpt because a certain internet company is in fact mentioned in this excerpt , so feel free to cheer. Standing in the dull silence of her foyer, Portia understood that she had no clear idea of what to do with herself, except to get away from this place. Methodically, she considered and rejected other places to
has helped me set up a website for a project that I'm involved with now. This is something that did grow out of the Admission novel. In Admission, every chapter begins with a little excerpt from an application essay. Some of them are funny. "I accompanied the Acapella choir," one of my personal favorites. Some of them were quite serious. But the potential for satire is so unignorable. And I have a friend who has gone through several of his children applying to college, and at one point he went to Barnes and Noble to try and find
festival in the musicians and then also my thoughts about music and what it means to me so I want to beat another quick excerpt that wrote about that about music while I was out there think
happened during the those 35 years. Um, what I've been doing, uh, when I go to bookstores and so on is reading kind of an excerpt from the introduction and then hopefully somebody will have questions about either some of the artists in the book or rock and roll or the music business. Uh, so I feel a little bit like John McCain reading from
Ukraine's key anti-corruption agencies, they they published what they said were uh excerpts of intercepted conversations uh between members of what they call a criminal group discussing ways of you know laundering money to pay bribes. and
killed the volunteers. And that's also the central conclusion of the IDF report released on Wednesday. Here's an excerpt . Following review of all findings of the factual assessment, it was determined that notwithstanding serious failures in the process that led to the assessment that Hamas operatives
But I do think you have to have a backup plan. And I found an excerpt that you wrote about him that I want to read to our listeners.
up the coast. And so there is Ume and there is roots already here, whereas in Australia, I see just really weird misos What is your favorite excerpt or recipe from your book, "Food Artisans of Japan"?
the different ways that you want to come out. Now this excerpt that I'm going to read right now is me coming out over the phone to my mother when I was very young, and when I was just starting out in the military.
And so I went back to this moment when I was 21 years old. This first excerpt to read is my first big international climbing expedition to the the of Kyrgyzstan, in Central Asia. And this-- the other characters in this excerpt are Jason Singer and John Dickey.
And by the end, it was getting pretty real. So this excerpt is this moment that I felt moved to write about. So this was-- these were the very first words I wrote in this book.
The barrel of his rifle glistens under the stars. The last excerpt that I'm going to read, here, is a letter that I wrote to my son, Fitz,
It's like every year you don't know. There was an excerpt in "Fortune," and it's kind of making fun of the .
Everyone else is dead silent. We have a little excerpt from some of this.
Here's an excerpt from her reply.
It's an excerpt of a story of mine.
We had an excerpt of it, actually, two weeks ago Sunday in the "Times." But his father was a General Motors auto worker
This is an excerpt .
That's an excerpt from the prologue.
He sent us an excerpt for us to read, which I have the suspicion a fair amount of people have looked at.
One more excerpt they'd like to read to you about some of the -- just the philosophy of collaboration in brewing.
very hard to excerpt . I also write short stories. I love reading short stories aloud because there's a beginning, middle and end. Good, that's it; it's done now. You either get it or you don't
Male #5: So that excerpt was a lot about the city.
Here's a little excerpt from the narrative of our first night in the restaurant.
with a very short excerpt of concluding observations and then we can open things
informational text and short excerpts to kind of prepare students for standardized testing.
a backlash against excerpts and sort of more efforts to return to, you know, reading full books and kind of doing
They would keep excerpts from their reading, bits of poems, and in later years, drawings and photographs as well.
There's book excerpts . For example, the New York City water story is up there for free.
It starts with audio excerpts from the interviews.
So the two excerpts you read were-- one of them was very narrative.
That too was excerpted in "The New Yorker." And sometimes, I read something.
I hate doing excerpts , so I'm very excited to give you an entire story.
There are excerpts from a second novel, which are a little bit mysterious when they first start showing up.
more short excerpts , though, I want to offer two disclaimers.
I think they were excerpts from columns that you used to write in the "San Francisco Examiner." And so sometimes I tell people, like, open the book.
Here are some excerpts .
of environment we see at Princeton, for example. So I don't have an axe to grind with how it's done. I think it's complicated, but I think that's what makes it interesting. So I'm going to read two excerpts from the novel. My protagonist is a 38-year-old woman named Portia Nathan. She's very complicated. She's not very happy. She's made some decisions in her life that have never really left her and now they're really coming into the foreground of her life;
There were 13 excerpts .
I really appreciate you elaborating on that a little bit more. I thought it was a very touching excerpt that I read. And I want to ask this question because Brooklyn is not that far from the Google office in Manhattan.
And I'll read a little excerpt from my book about the making of the video.
Does it feel like this excerpt starts in a logical and compelling place?
I'm going to read a little excerpt of a question that you posed, which is what if comedy and creativity, these nebulous things I've devoted all these years to,
And you can see an excerpt of the story.
Cool. So yesterday was international coming out day. And there is a really interesting excerpt in your book from when you came out to your mom. And I thought given that international coming out day was yesterday, that might be an appropriate place to start if you want, if you don't mind reading it.