Lisa Le Feuvre and Rosie Schaap join us for more Holiday Gift Guide coverage.

It’s time for our seventh annual Holiday Gift Guide! We’ve been having so much fun exploring books that make great presents—big glossy art books, cookbooks, anthologies, embossed boxed sets—that we’ve doubled our coverage this year. On Nov. 5, we featured books for cooks, with our favorite foodie fiction, histories, kids’ books, and cookbooks for the culinary-minded reader. On today’s special episode, co-hosted by editor-in-chief Tom Beer, we present our traditional Holiday Gift Guide, featuring art and design, travel, and fun. fast holiday reads.

First, Tom and I are delighted to welcome curator, writer, editor, and public speaker Lisa Le Feuvre to discuss Great Women Sculptors (Phaidon, Sept. 24), a tremendous compendium of dazzling work by groundbreaking artists from around the world. Spanning four centuries of creativity, this stately survey features one artwork apiece by more than 300 women sculptors from 60-plus countries. Le Feuvre, author of the inspiring foreword to Great Women Sculptors, has written and contributed to many books, including Nancy Holt: Inside/Outside (2022).She is inauguralexecutive director of Holt/Smithson Foundation, the artist-endowed foundation dedicated to the creative legacies of Nancy Holt and Robert Smithson.

We’re then joined by the incomparable Rosie Schaap to discuss her stunning new nonfiction book, The Slow Road North: How I Found Peace in an Improbable Country (Mariner Books, Aug. 20). Schaap is the author of Drinking With Men (2013) and Becoming a Sommelier (2019) and was a columnist for the New York Times Magazine from 2011 to 2017.Born and raised in New York City, she is now based in Northern Ireland, which serves as the primary setting for The Slow Road North, a reflection on loss, grief, hope, and relocation, that Kirkus calls, “a poignant and moving memoir featuring a well-rendered story of pain and redemption.”

Then editors Laura Simeon, Mahnaz Dar, John McMurtrie, and Laurie Muchnick join us to discuss their top picks in gift books.

EDITORS’ GIFT GUIDE PICKS:

Beach Cute by Beth Reekles (Delacorte Romance)

The Fairy Tale Fan Club: Legendary Letters Collected by C.C. Cecily by Richard Ayoade, illus. by David Roberts (Walker US/Candlewick)

The Artist’s Palette by Alexandra Loske (Princeton Univ.)

Jonathan Strange & Mr Norrell by Susanna Clarke (Folio Society)

THANKS TO OUR SPONSORS:

Sailing to Noon by Hoyt Rogers

Echoes on the Rock by Jana J. Dearden

Janet Hall by Chella Courington

Chasing Rabbits by Rodolfo Del Toro

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