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<span class="x_x_x_x_ContentPasted0 x_x_x_ContentPasted0 x_x_ContentPasted0 x_ContentPasted0 x_ContentPasted1 ContentPasted0" style="font-weight:400;font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;margin:0px;text-decoration:none">Bill Goldstein reviews books and interviews
authors for NBC’s</span><span class="x_x_x_x_ContentPasted0 x_x_x_ContentPasted0 x_x_ContentPasted0 x_ContentPasted0" style="font-weight:400;font-family:Arial, sans-serif;margin:0px;text-decoration:none"><span class="x_x_x_ContentPasted0 x_x_ContentPasted0 x_ContentPasted0 x_ContentPasted1 ContentPasted0" style="font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;margin:0px"> </span></span><span class="x_x_x_x_ContentPasted0 x_x_x_ContentPasted0 x_x_ContentPasted0 x_ContentPasted0 x_ContentPasted1 ContentPasted0" style="font-style:italic;font-weight:400;font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;margin:0px;text-decoration:none">Weekend
Today in New York</span><span class="x_x_x_x_ContentPasted0 x_x_x_ContentPasted0 x_x_ContentPasted0 x_ContentPasted0 x_ContentPasted1 ContentPasted0" style="font-weight:400;font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;margin:0px;text-decoration:none"> and was
the founding editor of The New York Times books website. A graduate of the University of Chicago, Goldstein received a Ph.D. in English from the City University of New York Graduate Center. He is writing a biography of Larry Kramer, to be published by Crown,
and worked on the book as a 2023-24 fellow at the Leon Levy Center for Biography at CUNY Graduate Center. He is the author of</span><span class="x_x_x_x_ContentPasted0 x_x_x_ContentPasted0 x_x_ContentPasted0 x_ContentPasted0" style="font-weight:400;font-family:Arial, sans-serif;margin:0px;text-decoration:none"><span class="x_x_x_ContentPasted0 x_x_ContentPasted0 x_ContentPasted0 x_ContentPasted1 ContentPasted0" style="font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;margin:0px"> </span></span><span class="x_x_x_x_ContentPasted0 x_x_x_ContentPasted0 x_x_ContentPasted0 x_ContentPasted0 x_ContentPasted1 ContentPasted0" style="font-style:italic;font-weight:400;font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;margin:0px;text-decoration:none">The
World Broke in Two: Virginia Woolf, T. S. Eliot, D. H. Lawrence, E. M. Forster, and The Year that Changed Literature,</span><span class="x_x_x_x_ContentPasted0 x_x_x_ContentPasted0 x_x_ContentPasted0 x_ContentPasted0 x_ContentPasted1 ContentPasted0" style="font-weight:400;font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;margin:0px;text-decoration:none"> published
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