Welcome to the Book Riot Podcast. We talk about book things, publishing things,

things that are happening in the world and how they relate to book things.

I am Rebecca Shinsky.

I am joined today by Amanda Nelson while Jeff is out.

It is Thursday June 11th, 2020.

And we are both coming to you from Richmond, Virginia,

where all sorts of interesting things are happening.

So many things.

Hello, Amanda.

Hi!

Christopher Columbus has discovered the bottom of a lake.

Yeah, Bird Park.

I kept trying to make up like a in 1492 Columbus sailed Bird Lake, bye, kind of song but it doesn't rhyme so it's like isn't coming together.

You know I think it's beautiful just as it is.

It is.

So protesters tore down the statue of Columbus

and put it in the lake is what we're talking about.

And the Wickham statue is down,

and as of, I think, late last night,

as we're recording this the Jefferson Davis statue is down and as we were saying to each

other right before we began this recording it's been cool to wake up every morning in Richmond this week and find out that a different statue has been pulled down.

Yeah. And this also, I think, concludes the list of the ones that seem to be easily removable

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