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Book Riot - The Podcast

2020 Fall Preview

Book Riot - The Podcast

Riot New Media Group, Inc

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

4.41.1K Ratings

🗓️ 2 September 2020

⏱️ 70 minutes

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Summary

Jeff and Rebecca highlight the most interesting, noteworthy, and exciting books being released this fall. This episode is sponsored by; Book Riot Insiders Now That I’ve Found You by Kristina Forest, with Fierce Reads Blue Box Press and 1001 Dark Nights His Only Wife by Peace Adzo Medie, now available from Algonquin Books Books mentioned in this episode: The Lying Life of Adults by Elena Ferrante Transcendent Kingdom by Yaa Gyasi Just Us by Claudia Rankine If Then by Jill Lepore Can’t Even by Anne Helen Petersen Jack by Marilynne Robinson Leave the World Behind by Rumaan Alam Office of Historical Corrections by Danielle Evans Mediocre by Ijeoma Oluo Sweat: A History of Exercise by Bill Hayes Memorial by Bryan Washington Piranesi by Susanna Clarke That Time of Year by Marie Ndiaye The Man Who Ate Too Much by John Birdsall Having and Being Had by Eula Biss The Story of Life in 10 ½ Species by Marianne Taylor Black Sun by Rebecca Roanhorse The Silence by Don DeLillo Eat a Peach by David Chang 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.

0:05.0

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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.

0:24.3

For chicken worth dipping, it better be bird's eye. We come to you now from the fall.

0:35.0

When everything is better, right?

0:38.0

That's what I was banking on from March where September would somehow be better.

0:45.0

Look, we didn't know things, I didn't know things,

0:48.0

we were playing the cards as they're dealt

0:52.0

and the game is changing, and so as the cards. But here we are. the in for the fall because so many a lot of these books got moved back from earlier in the spring

1:04.9

summer back to the fall I think publishing itself was banking on the fall being the

1:09.6

fall I mean do you feel that way yeah I was talking to a bookseller friend this week who was saying like

1:14.3

September 1st is maybe the biggest release day of the year this year and September

1:19.1

is always really big but this year it has all the like a bunch of the titles that were intended to

1:24.3

come out in September a bunch of titles that were intended to come out and be

1:27.8

bigger books of the spring but got bumped to the fall then there's stuff that

1:32.1

might normally have come out like in October or

1:34.0

November but it's an election year so we're getting it early or and now there are also

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