AMERICAN FICTION and Seeing The Book World On Screen and On the Page

Book Riot - The Podcast

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4.3 • 965 Ratings

🗓️ 13 March 2024

⏱️ 62 minutes

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On the occasion of Cord Jefferson's Best Adapted Screenplay win, Jeff and Rebecca talk about their favorite books, movies, and TV shows set in the world of books before talking about Erasure by Percival Everett and American Fiction. Subscribe to the podcast via RSS, Apple Podcasts, and Spotify. For more industry news, sign up for our Today in Books daily newsletter! Want to make your book club the best club? Sign up for our In the Club newsletter. In the Club will deliver recommendations for the best books to discuss in your book clubs. From buzzy new releases to brilliant throwbacks, the books highlighted in this newsletter will drive your book club discussions. We’ll also share some book club-friendly recipes and interesting bookish updates from all over. If you become a paid subscriber, you get even more recommendations plus community features. In other words, we’ll keep you well-met, well-read, and well-fed. Sign up today! This content contains affiliate links. When you buy through these links, we may earn an affiliate commission. Discussed in this episode: First Edition! The Book Riot Podcast Patreon Elf Wonder Boys by Michael Chabon Bridget Jones's Diary by Helen Fielding Seven Days in June by Tia Williams Luster by Raven Leilani Hothouse by Boris Kachka Yellowface by R.F. Kuang Erasure by Percival Everett Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	This is the Book Write Podcast. I'm Jeff O'Neil.
0:03.0	And I'm Rebecca Shinsky.
0:04.0	And today we are talking about the world of books and reading
0:09.0	as represented in books and movies and TV shows on the occasion of, well really now on the occasion of the
0:16.6	victory by Core Jefferson and the American fiction team for their Oscar for Best Adapted Screenplay.
0:21.6	Congratulations to you for almost having the courage to pick that.
0:24.3	You didn't quite, but you almost did.
0:26.8	Just a little dithering there about that.
0:29.4	I gave you every chance to just mount the podium
0:32.3	and you just spit the bit.
0:33.6	Now I guess you're in the horse Olympics now.
0:35.4	I don't know my metaphors are going here.
0:36.8	It should have.
0:38.2	I was in the camp of it should have won,
0:40.3	but I really thought that Oppenheimer was going to sweep the Oscars in a bigger way than it did.
0:46.4	I'm glad that it didn't win absolutely everything.
0:48.8	And Cord Jefferson had a nice little moment there on stage, encouraging the academy and the industry to make more
0:56.3	movies give more people shots and I've been thinking so much about how it's like an
1:00.8	inverse of the problem we have in publishing where we talk about there's too many books all the time there's way there too many books and Cora Jefferson was going you know a 200 million dollar booby is a big chance to take. What if you did 54 million
1:16.5	dollars movies and gave more people more you know times at bat to just tell their story and, you know, go for it, which I would love to see happen in movies. I don't know if it's going to, but there's only, I think I heard on the big picture picture there's only like 125 movies coming out
1:34.1	in wide release this year and we're gonna get more new books than that like in the
1:37.9	time that you and I are spending recording this podcast we have talked about
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