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🗓️ 12 October 2020

⏱️ 56 minutes

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Jeff and Rebecca tease their special 2020 Nobel Prize episode, look at the National Book Award longlist, consider an interesting new position at Simon & Schuster, and respond to listener feedback on their half-baked ideas, and more. This episode is sponsored by: This episode is sponsored by She Come By It Natural by Sarah Smarsh , The Invisible Life of Addie LaRue by V. E. Schwab, Rural Voices: 15 Authors Challenge Assumptions About Small-Town America edited by Nora Shalaway Carpenter, and Book Riot’s mystery thriller podcast, Read or Dead. Discussed in this episode: Sad nerd news: Dune is delayed to 2021 Tressie McMillan Cottom, NK Jemisin, and Jacqueline Woodson among MacArthur scholars Sienna Farris named director of multicultural marketing at S & S NBA finalists Women’s Prize excluding trans & nonbinary writers on basis of “sex as defined by law” Lumberjanes in development at HBO Max! Fox News starting book line at HarperCollins See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	Welcome back. It's the Book Right Podcast. Today, it's Thursday, October 8th, 2020. Quite a bit of
0:10.0	book news, one of the big book news weeks of the year. In the biggest story we're not going to talk
0:15.3	about right now because next week we're going to devote a whole episode to Louise Gluck winning the 2020 Nobel Prize in literature. I have to say I was very
0:28.0	excited and extremely surprised for a lot of reasons I'm not going to say
0:31.4	right now because that's what the other
0:32.7	episode is for Rebecca do you have a three-second reaction to Louise Glick winning the
0:38.3	Nobel Prize? I my first reaction was yay that it's a woman and now I need to read some Louise Glook.
0:46.3	I have some Louise Glook.
0:47.4	You're gonna like it.
0:48.6	You're gonna like this.
0:49.9	This is great for you in terms of discovery. All right, yeah, tell me, do you have a where to start?
0:55.0	I don't know the poems.
0:57.0	You know what we should do?
0:58.0	Maybe we'll cover this offline.
0:59.6	Since it's poetry, you can read it in pieces.
1:04.8	And I've got a few favorites.
1:06.1	Maybe we can have a close read corner
1:07.7	as part of our Nobel Prize.
1:09.1	That would be great.
1:10.3	episode, which is one of my favorite things to do. We'll talk about but anyway
1:15.2	next week we're gonna record an dedicated dedicated to the 2012 Nobel Prize
1:20.6	awarding and especially since it's in English and its poetry I think
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