#199: The Underbelly of American History

Book Riot - The Podcast

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🗓️ 7 March 2017

⏱️ 63 minutes

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Summary

This week, Rebecca and Jeff talk about the Obamas's record-setting book deals, a bill to ban the work of Howard Zinn, book recommendation algorithms, and much more. This episode is sponsored by: The Spaceman of Bohemia by Jaroslav Kalfar Volumes from Penguin Random House Audio Universal Harvester by John Darnielle Links discussed in this episode: Better Living Through Books Obamas! Book! Deals! Bill to ban Howard Zinn books from Arkansas public schools Changes to NYT book coverage explained Daily Action Launches Book Club Lit Bar hits crowdfunding goal Harper Collins book rec bot on Facebook See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	This episode is brought to you by Bird's Eye Chicken Dippers.
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0:38.0	the Book Riot Podcast, weekly news and talk show about what's new, cool and worth talking about the world of books and reading.
0:40.0	This episode 199, we're recording on Monday, March 6th.
0:43.7	I'm Jeff O'Neill.
0:44.4	I'm here with Rebecca Shinsky.
0:45.4	We're coming to you from Book Riot.
0:46.8	We're a little late.
0:47.5	We were in LA, we had meetings and stuff,
0:49.4	but it's Monday.
0:51.4	It gives it a different rhythm, right?
0:52.8	Yeah.
0:53.8	It does feel really different.
0:54.8	Normally, we're doing this on Thursday or Friday.
0:57.2	It'll be the end of the week.
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