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Book Riot - The Podcast

#1: Leaving a Whoopee Cushion for Santa Claus

Book Riot - The Podcast

Riot New Media Group, Inc

Arts, News, Books, News Commentary, Tv & Film

4.41.1K Ratings

🗓️ 12 May 2013

⏱️ 56 minutes

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Summary

In the inaugural Book Riot - The Podcast, Jeff and Rebecca talk about what the podcast will be, Gatsby hype, Harper Lee fights back against copyright grifters, gender-flipping book covers, finding books, Thomas Pynchon's middle name, and newly released books of note. This episode of Book Riot - The Podcast is sponsored by Nolet's Silver Dry Gin and Start Here: Volume 2. Show notes for this episode can be found at http://bookriot.com/category/podcast. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Transcript

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0:00.0

This episode is brought to you by Bird's Eye Chicken Dippers.

0:05.0

Whether you like cooking or parenting podcasts, it's safe to say we've all got different tastes,

0:10.0

and that's fine.

0:11.0

So wherever you dip your chicken dippers in,

0:13.2

catch up, mayo or even gravy, it's all good.

0:16.6

If you're after a convenient and tasty mealtime or snack,

0:20.0

then pick up some bird's eye chicken dippers

0:22.3

at a major supermarket today.

0:24.4

For chicken worth dipping, it better be bird's eye. This is episode one for the week ending May 11th 2013.

0:35.0

This is the Book Riot Podcast, a weekly news and talk show about what's new, cool and worth talking about in the world of books and reading.

0:41.0

This is episode one for the week ending May 11th 2013.

0:45.0

I'm Jeff O'Neill and I'm here with Rebecca Shinsky and we're the editors of Book Riot.com.

0:49.0

Rebecca how you doing?

0:50.0

Doing great this morning. How are you? We're on a podcast. We are on a

0:53.5

podcast. It's very exciting. It's so great and the agenda tells me that we're

0:57.8

supposed to banter now. We are bantering. This is banter. Yeah, this is

1:01.6

banter. What's that David Foster Wallace, uh, commencement speech that's going around right now?

1:06.2

This is water.

1:07.2

This is water. Yeah, I want a satirical one that's called This is Bantam.

1:09.4

This mocks David Foster Wallace.

1:11.4

That'd be pretty good, right?

1:12.1

That would be great great it's kind of

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