Agent of Chaos

Book Riot - The Podcast

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

4.3 • 965 Ratings

🗓️ 14 October 2019

⏱️ 52 minutes

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Summary

Jeff and Rebecca briefly discuss the double Nobel, wonder about a strange The Testaments deployment, consider the National Book Award longlist, and more. This episode is sponsored by: Fabulous Monsters by Alberto Manguel Dad's Maybe Book by Tim O'Brien The Great Courses Plus No Judgements by Meg Cabot Links discussed in this episode: The double Nobel happened The BBC abridged the audio of Testaments down to 3.5 hours Michelle Obama publishing companion journal for Becoming Schools in Columbia County, GA limiting students’ book selections 57 public libraries get funding to encourage enrollment in ACA National Book Awards finalists Heroes of the week: high school students who became best friends running a bookish charity together 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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0:24.4	For chicken worth dipping, it world of books and reading. This episode is a news and talk show about what's new, cool, and worth talking about the world of books and reading. This episode 334,
0:45.0	We're recording on Thursday, October 10th, 2019.
0:48.0	I'm Jeff O'Neill here with Rebecca Shinsky.
0:50.5	We're coming to you from Book Riot. Come. Hello.
0:53.0	This is a real test of our medal and willpower and the new format because we have big book
0:59.5	news this week but we are not going to talk about it except to say that it happened.
1:04.6	I'm actually very pleased that we're not talking about it yet because I need more research time.
1:09.6	Right, yeah I do too. It is nice because we'd be scrambling and we basically be regurgitating NPR news, press releases,
1:16.8	Nobel press releases, the double Nobel happened, which I guess there was a non-zero chance in my mind that it wasn't going to happen.
1:23.8	I didn't realize it until I was like, oh, it did happen today.
1:26.3	That was in the back of my mind.
1:27.6	That is exactly the feeling that I had and it's why it came out this way in our
1:31.9	agenda for this show of like the double
1:33.6	Nobel actually occurred that they had said they would award two but you know like
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