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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

🗓️ 12 March 2018

⏱️ 59 minutes

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Summary

This week, Jeff and Rebecca digest some new Barnes & Noble projects, get welcome good news in the form of a new Marilynne Robinson novel, and continue to be frustrated by New York Times bestseller lists.   This episode is sponsored by: Children of Blood and Bone by Tomi Adeyemi The Wicked Deep by Shea Ernshaw Everything is Horrible and Wonderful by Stephanie Wittels Wachs   Links discussed in this episode: Follow-up: Sherman Alexie’s accusers go on record MARILYNNE ROBINSONNNNNNNNNNNN And plans to open new prototype stores Barnes & Noble announces new in-store book clubs And adaptation of Little Fires Everywhere, yay Celeste Ng! NYT to introduce audiobooks bestsellers list 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.

0:05.0

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and that's fine.

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0:13.2

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at a major supermarket today.

0:24.3

For chicken worth dipping, it better be bird's eye. This is the Book Riot Podcast weekly news and talk show about what's new, cool and worth talking

0:38.2

about the world of books and reading.

0:39.7

This is episode 251.

0:41.2

We're recording on Thursday, March 8th, 2018.

0:44.0

I'm Jeff O'Neill. I'm here with Rebecca Shinsky.

0:46.4

We're coming to you from Book Riot.com.

0:48.8

You miss 250, but you're back for 251.

0:50.9

I did.

0:51.5

You know, I was sad to not be here for the balloon drop but I can't

0:55.1

say I'm sad that I got a week off of making noises about men doing terrible things.

0:58.9

Luckily we've got more of that for you so we save some. You don't miss it all. Unfortunately you know you lucked out and that there's still

1:06.3

some of this to do so yeah got lots of email responses with last couple weeks you know

1:12.1

we're hanging there everybody hang in there what we can make it it will I'm not

1:18.2

gonna say it's gonna pass but you know I think we can get through this all right you know let's do our first sponsor because we got we got the good stuff to talk about today

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