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Book Riot - The Podcast

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Book Riot - The Podcast

Riot New Media Group, Inc

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

4.41.1K Ratings

🗓️ 17 July 2023

⏱️ 54 minutes

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Summary

Jeff and Rebecca talk recent book banning developments, why book awards need to change their calendars, recent reading, 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! Looking for fascinating stories, informed takes, useful advice, and more drawn from our collective experience as power readers, teachers, librarians, booksellers, and bookish professionals? Subscribe to The Deep Dive, a biweekly newsletter featuring stories to inform and inspire readers, to get exclusive content delivered to your inbox! Discussed in this episode: First Edition! First Edition on Twitter. First Edition on Instagram. The First Edition (free) Substack. The Book Riot Podcast Patreon Sarah Silverman suing Meta & OpenAI over copyright infringement related to AI Libby/Overdrive banned for users under 18 in Mississippi Judge sides w/ Florida in challenge to rules about books in schools Pennsylvania senator to propose banning book bans Britney Spears memoir will be released 10/24 Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0

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This is the Bookwright Podcast. It's weekly news and talk show about what's new, cool, and worth talking about the world of books and reading.

0:37.0

Today's Thursday, July 13, 2023.

0:41.0

Rebecca Shinsky joins me, I join her, we join together to bring you news of banning and censorship

0:48.4

in North America and the year of our Lord 2023.

0:51.0

And a little Britney Spears news just for good measure. Yeah, a tough

0:57.3

week in the world of books and reading I would say. Not not a lot of good stuff

1:02.2

though maybe some good news out of Pennsylvania bad news I know you're going to be shocked out of

1:06.8

Mississippi out of Florida and Mississippi

1:10.3

Before we do that I want to point your attention to other places you can hear me

1:13.6

talking to microphones or another place in specific a new episode of First

1:18.1

Edition came out this morning. Liberty Hardy joined me and I did a thing I usually do to Rebecca but I needed someone to be

1:26.0

nicer to me than Rebecca would and you're very nice to me but I really put my

1:30.0

vulnerability out there and my secret that I confess to liberty is I don't enjoy

1:35.0

author interviews generally speaking but authors are interesting and I would like

1:41.4

to do more talking to authors but I do not

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