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Book Riot - The Podcast

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

4.3 • 965 Ratings

🗓️ 21 October 2019

⏱️ 73 minutes

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Summary

Jeff and Rebecca lament the double Booker prize and, to be honest, are just sort of bummed out by it and other stories this week. This episode is sponsored by: Win a Blind Date with a Book! Quantum by Patricia Cornwell Imaginary Friend by Stephen Chobsky Best American Short Stories 2019 on Audio Links discussed in this episode: The double Booker..and the backlash George college students burn books by Latina author Major library system says it will boycott Macmillan ebooks Stephen King’s pad to be open for visitors Some Australian book outlets refusing to sell Ronan Farrow book b/c of legal threats Interesting #metoo followup in classrooms w/ some sales data re: Diaz & Alexie 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	Whether you like cooking or parenting podcasts, it's safe to say we've all got different tastes,
0:10.0	and that's fine.
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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 it's new, cool and we're talking
0:38.0	about in the world of books and reading.
0:39.0	This is episode 335, recording on Saturday, October 19th, 2019.
0:46.2	It's Saturday morning.
0:47.2	We've already had technical problems.
0:49.9	We're getting frustrated.
0:51.5	It's early.
0:55.0	We're gonna talk about about books now I guess. I'm going to unplug myself and plug it back in I guess. Can we do that to humans?
1:01.0	Just like just slap your face a little and splash your water on your
1:05.0	face blow on the cartridge blow in the cartridge yeah anyway I'm drinking
1:11.7	water I'm not even I'm not even remembering on the podcast. Now let's do this.
1:16.4	We're going to do a sponsor first, give ourselves just a minute to wake up and then do some follow-up
1:21.1	and get out here. Okay, here's the sponsor.
1:22.8	Today's episode is brought to you by Flat Iron Books,
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