Breaking Down Obama's Summer Reading List, NYT's Article on Publishing Departures, Anthropic's Legal Challenge, and More

Book Riot - The Podcast

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4.3 • 965 Ratings

🗓️ 26 August 2024

⏱️ 64 minutes

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Jeff and Rebecca are back to talk about Obama's summer reading list, what is new and what isn't in a New York Times article about recent publishing layoffs, the state of LLM legal disputes, and more. Subscribe to the podcast via RSS, Apple Podcasts, and Spotify. For more industry news, sign up for our Today in Books daily newsletter! Check out the Book Riot Podcast Book Page on Thriftbooks! 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 Authors sue Anthropic Obama’s summer reading list How the Push to Diversify Publishing Fell Short New research: most Americans oppose book bans Two DeSantis-appointed school board members defeated in Broward County, FL Mina's Matchbox On the Edge Someone Like Us A Well-Trained Wife An Honest Woman Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	This is the Book Right Podcast. I'm Jeff O'Neill. I'm Rebecca Shinsky. And I am still, believe it or not, I'm still jet-lagged. Been back almost a week. I believe it. I'm not a well man Rebecca I'm all over the I just I can't I get a case of vertigo yesterday I got a plague house yeah it was a mess
0:22.4	so I'm still strapping on a little bit. Yeah, I was also on a flight last
0:26.4	week and the phantom thread was one of the in-flight movie options. So I thought of you and
0:30.8	wondered like what completely deranged movie marathon were you having on your flight
0:36.3	back from Europe? Well I didn't read a whole lot on break this time so I don't have a lot for but I'm going to save my mini repertory back of the chair Film Fest lineup for you.
0:46.5	For me to front of this way.
0:48.0	Great.
0:49.0	I can't wait.
0:50.0	I did see that the zone of interest is in the Delta studio right now and I was like is anybody
0:55.2	making that choice like what is the books to a beat for me for my overnight flying.
1:02.2	Yeah I don't remember what the other three were from your marathon last year, but I know Phantom
1:06.0	Fred was one.
1:07.0	Yeah, women talking was one.
1:09.0	Oh God.
1:10.0	And I can't remember with the other one.
1:11.8	There were several. It wasn't quite that, but it was not dissimilar in terms of it's
1:18.0	This is my time. This is my time. This is your time.
1:20.8	This is your time. I just watched Bull Durham for the 4 millionth time.
1:25.0	We got a lineup of news to do.
1:28.0	We're in the dog days of summer here.
1:30.0	Coming up on the Patreon next week, I believe we're going to be recording the fall draft.
1:35.0	The bonus episode this week, which we're going to record after this,
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