Book Publishing (aka Readin' N Sh!t)

Roy's Job Fair

Comedy Central

Comedy Interviews, Society & Culture, Comedy

4.8 • 816 Ratings

🗓️ 28 September 2022

⏱️ 67 minutes

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Summary

The wonderful world of book publishing! How hard is it to get a book deal? And once you get the deal how hard is it to put out a book that YOU love? An editor passionate about highlighting Black and queer authors, despite how difficult it can be to promote them, explains the rollercoaster of emotions authors of color face in this predominantly-white industry.

Renowned book critic Bethanne Patrick, breaks down the secretive world of book publishing. From pain to privilege to unwritten books, and how some publishers play with the money to shortage authors both fiscally and creatively. She also discusses her book industry podcast ‘Missing Pages’ and book, Life B.

From across the pond, @Rod4Short shares the opposite of a sweet duty involving tens of thousands of bees. The team also weighs in on the drama in Boston involving the Celtics head coach.

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0:00.0	Hey, everybody, John Stewart here. I am here to tell you about my new podcast, The Weekly Show, coming out every Thursday.
0:07.5	We're going to be talking about the election, earnings calls. What are they talking about on these earnings calls?
0:14.3	We're going to be talking about ingredient to bread ratio on sandwiches. I know you have a lot of options as far as podcasts go, but how many of them
0:23.3	come out on Thursday? Listen to the weekly show with John Stewart, wherever you get your
0:27.8	podcast. You're listening to Comedy Central. All right. Let me wait, Tess, y'all got me?
0:37.4	Yes. Oh, yeah, we got y'all got me? Yes.
0:38.0	Oh, yeah, we got you clear.
0:39.0	Sorry about that. I've been stealing Wi-Fi from this building.
0:42.5	I think they finally had a good year and a half run.
0:49.3	What is the world?
0:51.1	The office where I do this, the internet jacking the wall, that shit's still active.
0:56.5	So I just been rolling with it.
0:59.2	You're plugging into the wall?
1:01.1	Respect.
1:02.3	Right.
1:02.6	I think they finally got me.
1:06.3	Let's hurry up before they cut the internet off again.
1:09.5	Now hiring.
1:12.7	Now hiring.
1:14.4	The Boston Celtics probably going to be hiring for a number of positions over the next couple of months as their internal investigation continues into inappropriate consensual relationships involving team staff head coach Ime Udoca
1:30.0	brother Udoca apparently didn't slinging dick around the Celtics facility
1:36.2	like it with bean cars currently on a year longlong suspension from the teens, brothers doker, but more importantly,
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