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Book Riot - The Podcast

A Mist of Possibility

Book Riot - The Podcast

Riot New Media Group, Inc

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

4.41.1K Ratings

🗓️ 12 September 2022

⏱️ 57 minutes

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Summary

Jeff and Rebecca talk about the Booker Prize shortlist, Nora Roberts making it rain for a Michigan library, Virginia’s obscenity case against Gender Queer getting kicked to the curb, interesting new trailers, nerd TV, and more. 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 Liberty Hardy’s Patreon RIP Barbara Ehrenreich And Peter Straub Booker Prize Shortlist AJ Fikry trailer Their efforts have failed: VA obscenity case over Gender Queer is dismissed Nora Roberts saves Michigan library defunded over ​​LGBTQ titles Baker & Taylor’s systems were down for multiple weeks due to a ransomware attack the weekend of Aug 20-21 Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0

Hello and welcome back to the Book Ride Podcast. It's a weekly news and talk show about what's new, cool and worth talking about the world of books and reading.

0:09.0

Today is Thursday, September 8th, 2022.

0:13.1

I'm Jeff O'Neill here with Rebecca Shinsky.

0:16.0

Coming to you from a really wonderful website,

0:19.4

internet entity, kind of idea cloud of book right. I like idea cloud let's go with that. You remember

0:26.1

those cloud what were those word clouds that people used to have on their blogs?

0:29.9

What whatever happened to those? I don't know. I was just thinking that now when I'm like

0:35.7

Chatting with somebody sitting next to me on a plane I can say like I work for an idea cloud

0:41.2

That'll keep them from asking follow-up questions.

0:44.6

I work from kind of a theoretical haze, really, when you think about it.

0:50.8

So what do you know about Schrodinger's cat.

0:53.0

A mist of probability is really what we're talking about.

0:57.0

I stopped saying I worked in publishing years ago when I figured out that that opened the door for people to tell you about the book they were writing or that their uncle's next door neighbor's friend was writing or any of those things and so now I usually say you know I'm the chief of stuff.

1:11.6

Have you gotten a media company?

1:13.2

Self-published manuscripts from friends and family

1:16.1

over the years?

1:16.7

I've gotten several.

1:17.8

Like three.

1:18.8

Not manuscripts.

1:20.1

I think I have figured out how to say no before the manuscript makes its way to me.

1:26.0

Or no one has just like given me an unsolicited manuscript from a friend or family member,

1:32.0

but I have gotten enough of the, like, you know, my husband's uncle

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