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Book Riot - The Podcast

#216: Cross the Memes

Book Riot - The Podcast

Riot New Media Group, Inc

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

4.4 • 1.1K Ratings

🗓️ 2 July 2017

⏱️ 47 minutes

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Summary

This week, Jeff and Rebecca talk about the launch of Annotated, tastefully gloat about guessing Oprah's next book club selection, appreciate the bookishness of Sarah Jessica Parker, and much more.  We hope you’ll check out the first episode of Annotated: “Is It 1984 Yet?” It’s about the resurgence of interest in George Orwell’s 1984 and the story of how 1984 came to be in the first place. The next five episodes in the series will come out every other week, and you can subscribe to Annotated in Apple Podcasts, Google Play, or in your podcast player of choice. Find out more about Annotated here   This episode is sponsored by: OwlCrate Leaving Lucy Pear by Anna Solomon Libby   Links discussed in this episode: New Oprah pick (we nailed it)  Audiences at 1984 on Broadway vomiting & fainting  Sarah Jessica Parker’s first acquisition for Hogarth imprint Millennials most likely generation to use public libraries Macmillan offers scholarships to professional development events for booksellers from marginalized backgrounds  TSA testing new screening that requires removing books from packed bags  LeVar Burton reads to us in his new podcast 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

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 the Book Riot Podcast, a weekly news and talk show about what's new, cool and

0:38.7

worth talking about in the world of books and reading. This is episode 216. We're recording on Thursday, June 29th.

0:45.5

I'm Rebecca Shinsky here with Jeff O'Neill and we're coming to you from Book Riot.

0:50.0

It's going to be, I think it's going to be a pungy episode, Rebecca.

0:52.1

Oh, well, if the way that this

0:54.3

morning has gone is any indication. We were just in a pre-show we were both

0:58.2

talking about how punchy we are. You had stuff going on we were we're gearing up, annotated and launched, episode one is available,

1:05.0

so we're up late, sending text back and forth with me and Jeremy and Kyle,

1:09.0

and he's editing it and getting it all put together

1:11.0

and wringing our hands and making sure everything was in place for this

1:13.6

morning and everything went fine, it was just, you know, extra nuttiness on top of the already

1:18.6

nutty.

1:19.6

Like our baseline is pretty nutty.

1:21.6

Yeah, we've got shells over the floor

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