#282: Big Mood

Book Riot - The Podcast

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🗓️ 15 October 2018

⏱️ 54 minutes

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Summary

This week, Sharifah joins Jeff to talk the awarding of the New Academy Prize (aka, The Alternative Nobel), the meh-tastic finalists of The Great American Read, rage-inducing #metoo responses, Macarthur "Genius" winners, and much more. This episode is sponsored by: The Devil's Thief by Lisa Maxwell Curtain Call by Wilifred Lupano Bombas Links discussed in this episode: Alternative Nobel goes to Maryse Conde Nobel shenanigans: Swedish Academy elects new members Great American Read top 10 finalists Stephen Elliott sues Moira Donegan Amazon gives employees another pay bump to make up for lost bonuses Kelly Link among MacArthur Genius Grant Winners 2018 National Book Award finalists 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.
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0:24.4	For chicken worth dipping, it better be bird's eye. This is the Book Ride Podcast weekly news and talk show about what's new, cool and worth talking
0:38.8	about in the world of books and reading.
0:40.8	This is episode 282.
0:42.2	We're recording on Monday, October 15th. I'm Jeff O'Neill.
0:46.2	I'm here with Sherifa Williams, the newly minted managing editor of Book Riot.com
0:50.7	coming to you from Book Riot.com, Shrifah, welcome back to the show. It's been a while.
0:56.4	Thank you. It has been a while. I think I was last on with Rebecca.
1:00.8	Yeah. That was super fun.
1:02.4	Right. So because of travel and blah blah blah on Friday Thursday and Friday long story short I was in no
1:09.3	condition to record on Friday so we're coming to bit. Monday, hopefully not too late into the Monday of the days.
1:15.4	Today, Sharifah, you got promoted managing editors, so has it been a month?
1:18.9	It hasn't been a month yet.
1:20.0	Did you start October 1st, technically?
1:21.4	I started October 1st, so yeah, I'm like midway
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