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Book Riot - The Podcast

#244: A Sheep, Not a Sheepdog

Book Riot - The Podcast

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4.41.1K Ratings

🗓️ 22 January 2018

⏱️ 46 minutes

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Summary

This week, Jeff and Rebecca talk Fire and Fury's continued run, more details about PBS' Great American Read, Ferrante going to The Guardian, and much more.   This episode is sponsored by Walking the Bones by Randall Silvis Happiness is a Choice You Make by John Leland The Largesse of the Sea Maiden by Denis Johnson   Links discussed in this episode: Follow-up: Holt ships 700k copies of Fire and Fury Intel on how Michael Wolff got White House access And the TV rights have been picked up Follow-up: Voldemort fan film is live Follow-up: Margaret Atwood and George R R Martin booked for PBS’s “Great American Read” competition Elena Ferrante to become weekend columnist at the Guardian Conservative group protests Scholastic for selling books about transgender kids Deep dive: what gets a book banned from prisons 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

0:08.9

about in the world of books and reading.

0:10.9

This is episode 244. We're recording on Thursday

0:13.8

January 18th. I'm Rebecca Shinsky here with Jeff O'Neill and we're coming to you

0:17.7

from bookriot.com. She's still giving me Garth Brooks anecdotes. Even

0:22.1

off off air. She's got a. Look he's very wise it's

0:25.2

going to take years this is one of those deals where we're going to be hearing how

0:28.3

many are there going to be there's going to be four more of them and I think it's like

0:31.4

one a year so it's like one a year so.

0:34.0

It's like someone getting into the wheel of time but of country music.

0:39.0

You really have to start at the beginning and you have to know like you know what kind of stitches he

0:43.1

likes on his hats and all you know it's I did learn that his first name is not

0:47.9

Garth it's Troil it's Troil I looked that up recently I looked it up because my brother and sister-in-law were

0:56.8

over and I don't I think Garth Brooks came on the playlist that we had gone and

1:01.0

I was like I was suddenly I was like what kind of a name is Garth like it's not even

1:05.2

Gartholomew like it's not short or anything there's it's like did someone get Gareth wrong like what what is that and so we

1:12.4

Wikipedia yeah he was born way

1:14.3

before Wayne's world. Yeah and and we're like and and my sister was like

1:20.3

Garth isn't even it's his middle name like what he chose to go by

1:23.3

Garth as his first name is Troy I'm like what it's like did was there some sort of

1:27.0

typing error at the hospital like what are these names do you know you probably

1:30.7

I don't know I don't know wait that's not there's a 5,000 there's a 5,000 volume

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