#236: One of the Other Toms

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🗓️ 20 November 2017

⏱️ 58 minutes

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This week, Jeff and Rebecca recap the National Book Awards, tackle a pair of grim publishing industry surveys, realize how little they know about Spanish-language publishing in the U.S., and much more. This episode is sponsored by: Libby PRH Audio The Illustrated Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them Links discussed in this episode: National Book Award winners Bilingual book about Selena is outselling everyone, including Harry Potter PW’s 2017 salary survey shows publishing is still super white & the wage gap is huge More than half of the respondents to a UK publishing industry survey report experiencing sexual harassment California will be first state to require LGBTQ-inclusive history texts JRR Tolkien’s son resigns as director of estate 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 is the Book Riot Podcast, a weekly news and talk show about what's new, cool and worth talking about in the world of books and reading.
0:11.0	This is episode 236, we're recording on Thursday, November 16th.
0:15.0	I'm Rebecca Shinsky here with Jeff O'Neill and we're coming to you from Book Riot.
0:19.0	Come. Can you hear sleigh bells? I can.
0:23.0	Ames requested White Christmas yesterday to watch.
0:26.5	And we have a strict day after Thanksgiving or night of a Thanksgiving at least prohibition
0:31.6	on White Christmas to start because if we don't
0:33.7	then it's just you know you Christmas group we're going to be watching it in June so but it's
0:39.5	coming it's definitely coming I feel like I'm in that camp too.
0:42.7	I love the holidays, but I firmly believe
0:46.0	that you don't start the Christmas music
0:47.8	until Thanksgiving dinner is over.
0:49.6	Like it can be as you get up from Thanksgiving dinner,
0:52.0	you turn on the Mariah Carry a Merry Christmas album.
0:54.3	When do you get your tree? Obviously. We had our tree the Saturday after Thanksgiving usually.
0:59.2	We drive out into the country to a Christmas tree farm, cut it down ourselves, and then it takes us a day or two to like get it in the house and it takes Bob another week or two to like get all the lights on. It's a whole process.
1:11.0	We do it the Thanksgiving weekend weekend but we kind of make a it's kind of a
1:15.5	tree trimming we do we put it in the stand we put the lights on put on the music
1:20.0	drink something hot it's a nice thing.
1:22.6	It's very good.
1:23.6	Yes, get all cozy.
1:24.6	I'm ready to like mull cider.
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