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Book Riot - The Podcast

A Feather in the Trap

Book Riot - The Podcast

Riot New Media Group, Inc

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

4.41.1K Ratings

🗓️ 27 June 2022

⏱️ 60 minutes

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Summary

Jenn Northington joins Jeff to talk about a sweeping New York Times piece on diversity in publishing, the most popular GoodReads books of the moment, and how much Americans do and do not read books. Follow the podcast via RSS, Apple Podcasts, and Spotify. The show can also be found on Stitcher. For more industry news, sign up for our Today in Books daily newsletter! This content contains affiliate links. When you buy through these links, we may earn an affiliate commission. Discussed in this episode: The Book Riot Podcast Patreon NYT looks at the state of diversity of the publishing industry Florence Pugh to star in East of Eden Netflix series The Obamas Head to Audible Over 50% of Americans have not finished a book in the last year 72 of the most popular books on GoodReads….right now The City Inside by Samit Basu Aurora by David Koepp An Immense World by Ed Yong Flying Solo by Linda Holmes Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Transcript

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0:00.0

Welcome back to the Book Ride Podcast. It's a weekly news and talk show about what's new, cool,

0:08.0

and worth talking about the world of books and reading, recording on Thursday, June 23rd, 2022.

0:14.0

Here today, so glad to have Jen Northington back on the show,

0:17.0

as Rebecca and I do a little vacay do-see-dough.

0:20.0

But you get to hear some from our favorite folks to come join us. I always feel like I don't know Jen every time you come on I'm like oh here's some interesting Jen stuff and I've got interesting Jen stuff for you some questions for you if you're interested in

0:32.2

But what's going on how you doing? Yeah, I'm good some questions for you if you're interested in.

0:32.6

But what's going on?

0:33.2

How you doing?

0:34.3

Yeah, I'm good.

0:35.1

It's a banana of podcasting this week ahead.

0:39.2

So if I have fantasy, we got Reed Harder,

0:41.7

and now the Book Riot Podcasts, like I am inescapable in your ears.

0:45.0

And we got you coming out of vacation so hopefully you got a little rest and

0:50.0

and retreat over the last few days.

0:53.0

A quick shout out to before we get too far into it for the Be Our Patreon.

0:57.0

This week I think it has dropped.

1:01.0

So next week we're taking our first real week break from bonus content.

1:05.3

It won't be nothing new next week, but this week we just dropped.

1:08.8

Rebecca and I both responded to the New York Times book reviewed by the book questionnaire in prose.

1:14.2

So you got that.

1:15.4

And in the week before that, we did power ranking the top 20 books of the year 2000.

1:21.0

Had a lot of really good responses to that folks so if you're interested or if you are a

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