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Book Riot - The Podcast

#248: No Heroes

Book Riot - The Podcast

Riot New Media Group, Inc

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

4.41.1K Ratings

🗓️ 19 February 2018

⏱️ 52 minutes

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Summary

This week, Jeff and Rebecca follow-up about some tangible repercussions of #metoo in children's publishing, consider a new rationale for taking To Kill a Mockingbird out of school curricula, and get very nervous about the fate of Barnes & Noble.   This episode is sponsored by: Mister Tender's Girl by Carter Wilson Win $500 in Penguin Clothbound Classics The When in Romance Podcast   Links discussed in this episode: Follow-up: James Dashner dropped by agent Ditto for Jay Asher NYC teacher banned from teaching Harlem Renaissance Minnesota school district pulls TO KILL A MOCKINGBIRD and Huck Finn because “hurtful” Barnes & Noble cuts staff after dismal holiday sales A Barnes & Noble employee's inside look See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Transcript

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0:00.0

This is

0:04.0

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

0:08.0

cool and worth talking about the world of books and reading.

0:10.0

This episode 248 recording on Thursday of February 15th.

0:13.5

I'm Jeff O'Neill, I'm here with Rebecca Shinsky,

0:15.2

and we're coming to you from bookride.com.

0:17.4

Hello.

0:18.4

Two away from 250.

0:20.6

We are.

0:21.9

We've done so many ask us anything. I'm not sure there's anything left people could ask us.

0:25.2

Yeah, where I'm making I'm having a bingo board that's right.

0:28.3

Yeah. People can ask us things if they want like I don't know that we have enough to fill a whole episode

0:34.7

But if you have questions you can shoot them to us at podcast at bookriot.com

0:39.2

Sure, that's what I was saying like you can do it anytime, but we don't we don't have to like put on put on our fancy dress to take on well I am expecting confetti to drop

0:48.5

from the ceiling when I you know click clothes after we have the 250th episode in the can I need some sort of

0:55.4

fanfare to appear in my home office here maybe maybe Millie can do a special bark or

1:00.4

something yeah because we're coming up on five years I mean I I guess that's the one it's five years may is that right? Gosh how can it be that

1:07.7

seems impossible? My recollection of it now and some of it is just when we started like we felt like we've been

1:14.6

doing the company for a while and we started but we hadn't really I mean really it's been

1:18.6

two years yeah not even like a year and a year and a half so So I never can think it was for that long.

1:24.0

But anyway, thank you.

1:25.0

You know, we got a lot of great feedback.

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