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Book Riot - The Podcast

#137: Lexical Acrobatics

Book Riot - The Podcast

Riot New Media Group, Inc

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

4.41.1K Ratings

🗓️ 21 December 2015

⏱️ 60 minutes

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Summary

In this episode, Jeff and Rebecca follow up on James Patterson's grants to indie booksellers, the possibilities and pitfalls of subscription services for romance titles, students at a high school deciding they are uncomfortable with Huck Finn, a bookstore that stocks only books recommended by celebrities, and much more. This episode is sponsored by Mad Men Unzipped and Penguin Random House Audio. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0

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For chicken worth dipping, it world of books and reading.

0:39.5

This is episode 137.

0:42.0

We're recording on Thursday, December 17th. I'm Jeff O'Neill. I'm here

0:45.6

with Rebecca Shinsky and we're coming to you from Book Riot.com. We did find it. We found

0:51.1

it finally. It's the slowest news week of the year yes and usually there's like a

0:56.1

surprise where we say this is going to be the slowest news a week and then

0:59.6

something crazy happens has actually been the slowest news week of the year.

1:04.0

Maybe next year or next week we'll get the publishing equivalent of the Surprise Beyoncé.

1:08.0

Right, maybe. I used to say that in the summertime when we first started the show like you know I thought you know in August and the dog is always something but I guess that was the fall was a coming and now there's not really much news going on I guess everyone is going to see Star Wars and or

1:25.2

Hamilton. I can't get away from... Or both, yeah. So it's kind of a slow week, but there's some stuff

1:31.8

going on, but not much in the way of headlines.

1:34.1

I've got some follow-up.

1:36.2

We've got some news, and I guess next week we're going to do a year and review show in anticipation

1:42.1

that will probably be this low week.

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