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Ep 548 - The Firm, by John Grisham

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Craig Getting, Arts, Books, Podcasts, Literature, Comedy, Andrew Cunningham

4.62.3K Ratings

🗓️ 29 August 2022

⏱️ 69 minutes

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Summary

What do lawyers, airports, and thrillers have in common? They're all relevant to John Grisham's breakout novel The Firm! A Stepford-y secret, high-end copy machines, brilliant young law school grads -- this book has it all.

Our theme music was composed by Nick Lerangis.

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0:00.0

This is a head gum podcast.

0:04.0

Hey, hey, it's Craig.

0:08.0

It's Andrew.

0:09.0

They say that book publishing is a glamorous world filled with money, privilege, and three

0:13.0

martini lunches.

0:14.0

Or is it?

0:15.0

I don't know, is it?

0:17.0

You tell me.

0:18.0

Well, it might be.

0:20.0

Listen to this podcast that I'm going to tell you about and we'll find out.

0:24.0

If you're like us and you want to get to the bottom of this, you want to dive into messy

0:27.7

power struggles, scams, and unfathomably bad behavior within the book world, then I recommend

0:33.4

checking out missing pages, an all new investigative podcast from the podglomerate.

0:39.6

It's hosted by literary critic and publishing insider Beth Ann Patrick who spills the

0:44.1

tea on some of the world's most famous and infamous or infamous book figures.

0:50.4

On this week's episode, they say that being too online will mess with your head and

0:54.6

no one is more online than mega influencer and would be author Carolyn Callaway.

1:00.8

Beth Ann follows obsessed super fans, betrayed friends, and abandoned book deals across the

1:06.0

web and around the world.

1:08.3

Missing pages is worth the hype.

1:09.8

Where else can you hear your favorite authors publishing insiders in a circus of NYC media

1:14.0

elites telling the real story unfit for print and perfect for podcasting?

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