Excerpted [verb]

That cathartic impulse was evident all evening, beginning with the 20-minute excerpts from Sophocles’s “Philoctetes” and “Women of Trachis” from which McDormand, Faison and Marjolaine Goldsmith and Nyasha Hatendi read.

Below are lightly edited excerpts, as well as a full video recording of the conversation.

In this excerpt from her new memoir, Undaunted, Goldin talks about how being unafraid to show up uninvited helped her launch a stellar career.

She had them read an excerpt from the Federalist Papers with Alexander Hamilton explaining why he believed in the electoral college and another piece with the opposing view.

Below are lightly edited excerpts from their conversation, moderated by Eater editor Madeleine Davies, as well as a full video recording of the talk.

This adapted excerpt is taken from The Art & Science of Foodpairing by Peter Coucquyt, Bernard Lahousse, and Johan Langenbick.

Microsoft got so angry about the excerpts it even waged a campaign with us reporters to ignore the “snippets.”

The episode features exclusive excerpts from Adam Lashinsky’s interview with NBA commissioner Adam Silver.

Adapted excerpt taken from The Inside Out of Flies by Erica McAlister, with permission from Firefly Books Ltd.

The first gold nugget turned up was a set of excerpts from paid speeches Clinton had given to the financial firm Goldman Sachs, material that her critics had been seeking for months.