A Clandestine Texas Bookshelf, Argylle Fizzles, Spotify's Audiobook Royalties, and a Farewell to N. Scott Momaday

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4.3 • 965 Ratings

🗓️ 5 February 2024

⏱️ 63 minutes

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Jeff and Rebecca take a moment to mark the death of N. Scott Momaday, do a post-mortem on the Argylle 'intrigue," pitch a movie based on a secret banned bookshelf in Houston, and more. Subscribe to the podcast via RSS, Apple Podcasts, and Spotify. For more industry news, sign up for our Today in Books daily newsletter! 2024 is the tenth year of the Read Harder Challenge! Join us as we make our way through 24 tasks meant to expand our reading horizons and diversify our TBRs. To get book recommendations for each task, sign up for the Read Harder newsletter. We’ll also keep you informed about other cool reading challenges, readathons, and more across the bookish internet. If you become a paid subscriber, you get even more recommendations plus community features, where you can connect with a community of passionate, like-minded readers in a cozy and supportive corner of the internet. Visit bookriot.com/readharder to sign up. This content contains affiliate links. When you buy through these links, we may earn an affiliate commission. Discussed in this episode: Sign up for Better Living Through Books and the BR Pod newsletter First Edition! The Book Riot Podcast Patreon N. Scott Momaday Has Died Of course Constance Grady did the legwork on Argylle The Argylle movie reviews are rolling in, and they’re…not great How not to pitch your book to BookTokers Hero of the Week: Texas teacher’s clandestine library of banned books Some late-breaking info about Spotify’s audiobook performance; Audible is concerned Martyr! by Kaveh Akbar Come and Get It by Kiley Reid The Fury by Alex Michaelides Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:30.0	This is the book Red Park,
0:32.0	and I'm Jeff O'Neil.
0:33.0	And I'm Rebecca Shinsky.
0:35.0	And today we're talking about the four quadrants of book success.
0:40.0	Maybe. Oh, we are.
0:41.0	Okay. Yeah, I just put it in there.
0:42.8	Great. Yeah, you're not just looking at the agenda all the time, Rebecca.
0:47.0	Late breaking podcast plans. You don't have an if this than that that sit to an alert if I've entered a single new character to the Google.
0:54.0	Imagine me being alerted every time you change a Google Doc is a nightmare.
0:58.0	It's like Clockwork Orange for productivity. It's real bad stuff.
1:05.0	We're going to say a farewell to end Scott Mamade. We're going to talk about how
1:09.0	Argyll is bad and complicated, the worst of both worlds, and a bunch of other book-related stuff.
1:15.1	I know you've got some feedback for me about your sort of, um, uh, in James Salterian influences and also maybe a in report that kayaking in a swamp is great. It was fun. It was great. It was
1:35.4	great. It was really fun. I was outside Charleston, South Carolina and there is a
1:40.4	Cyprus and Tupelo, like forest there that like I mean this is the south and
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