#218: Lexical Malfeasance

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🗓️ 19 July 2017

⏱️ 63 minutes

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Summary

In this episode, Jeff and Rebecca talk about sales numbers for BEHOLD THE DREAMERS post-Oprah selection, a good year so far for print sales, the opening of the new largest bookstore in the world, and try to get you to listen to Annotated (if you haven't already). This episode is sponsored by: Levar Burton Reads Unraveling by Sara Ella Book of the Month Links discussed in this episode: Annotated Episode 2: How did Independent Bookstore Avoid Going Extinct? Pulitzer Prize gets new administratorWorld’s largest bookstore opens in Iran New Maurice Sendak book discovered 10.9% of the translation of The Vegetarian is wrong?! Wichita Police Department using book-delivery service for outreach North American comics market hit $1.085 billion in 2016 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 sponsored by La Var Burton Reads. A lot of us learned to love reading by watching
0:05.7	La Var Burton, host of the wonderful TV show Reading Rainbow, for which he won a Peabody and
0:10.9	a dozen Emmys.
0:12.6	Laverberton has a new podcast now that recreates that magic for grown-ups.
0:16.7	It's called Laverberton reads.
0:18.6	Each episode, Laverpicks one of his favorite short stories like Ken by Bruce
0:22.4	McAllister and reads it to you.
0:24.4	I think you'll really enjoy it but you don't have to take my word for it.
0:27.3	Subscribe to LaVar Burton reads in Stitcher Apple Podcasts or wherever you listen. This is the book write podcast, weekly news and talk show about what's new, cool, and worth talking
0:40.8	about in the world of books and reading.
0:42.3	This episode 218.
0:43.4	We're recording on Monday, July 17th, 2017.
0:47.1	I'm Jeff O'Neill, I'm here with the Grigashinsky.
0:48.7	We're coming to you from Book Riot.
0:51.7	It's 717. This is one of those weeks where I think every
0:56.3	date in the week is a palindrome. What? It's the same or maybe it was last week
1:01.0	where every date was the same forward as it was backwards?
1:04.0	Things that mean nothing but are somehow interesting.
1:07.0	Welcome to our show.
1:08.0	We're recording late.
1:11.0	It's a Monday in the middle of the day.
1:12.0	Yeah, it's a Monday in the middle of the day anything could happen
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