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Book Riot - The Podcast

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

4.4 • 1.1K Ratings

🗓️ 26 February 2018

⏱️ 68 minutes

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This week, Jeff and Rebecca talk about further #metoo fallout, relay some info about B&N from little birdies, ponder the hair-sharing economy of revolutionary America, and much more. This episode is sponsored by: Sometimes I Lie by Alice Feeney Libby A Girl Like That by Banaz Thathena Links discussed in this episode: Follow-up: James Dashner dropped by publisher The Lemony Snicket problem Jon Scalzi gives Myke Cole a big blog feature…about writing strong female characters….after Cole apologizes for sexual harassment Follow-up: He Who Shall Not Be Named drops suit against S & S Iowa citizens petitioning to separate LGBTQ books from collection and halt new acquisitions without public input Copies of Mary Shelley’s original Frankenstein text to be published Weird: George Washington’s hair found in old NY library book 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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0:24.3	For chicken worth dipping, it better be bird's eye. This is the Book Riot Podcast, weekly news and talk show about what's new,
0:38.0	cool and worth talking about in the world of books and reading.
0:40.0	This episode 249, recording on Thursday, February 22nd.
0:43.6	I'm Jeff O'Neill, I'm here with Rebecca Shinsky,
0:45.7	and we're coming to you from bookright.com.
0:48.4	Hey, hey.
0:50.3	You know, we've got fallout.
0:51.8	It's a fallout. So much. Follow-up and fall out and like I'm already tired.
0:56.5	Fall out oi is what we're doing but before we get into that actually I do I said we didn't have any follow-up that wasn't sort of the
1:03.9	length of one story but I kind of do I just forgot Rebecca I'm looking at my
1:06.7	notes for it now. Publishers Weekly highlighted a couple of the books that have
1:11.5	been picked for the PBS slash New York Times
1:15.0	read along thing. Oh they did. And I don't have the numbers for the second pick
1:21.3	off the top of my head which I think was Singh Unburied Singh. The first pick was Killers of the Flower. the and bumped it back onto the hardcover non-fiction list at number 11 at least according to
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