Six Critics Enter a Room. Only One Leaves Alive!

For your listening pleasure, time.com's podcast of The Best Thing of 2007. The premise: six Time Arts staffers (me, music critic Josh Tyrangiel, book critic Lev Grossman, book/art/architecture critic Richard Lacayo, film critic Richard Corliss and Arts editor Belinda Luscombe) enter a podcast studio. We each select one work from our genre as the Best Thing of 2007. We argue it out, American Gladiators-style. We vote (for any Thing but our own). And the winner is...

I'm not telling. But if you have some time to kill, it's 34 minutes of nonstop critical geekitude.