Hello and welcome to the Book Riot Podcast.

It's a weekly news and talk show about what's new, cool, and worth talking about in the world

of books and reading, an unscripted and unedited show, I might say say someone mentioned that they like that at a

patreon commenters keep all our umms and u s and fillers word uh... in this one

that's what we do we never know what's gonna to come out. We have agenda items that are just links at this point.

This document is wild. If you look at it's kind of like the Horn of Plenty.

It's what 540 something pages long now? Yeah it is. We're somewhere in the

520 issues episodes at this point. We stopped numbering a while ago. We had drop-ins,

things like that

but it was reminded to me because well of a story we'll get to in a minute well I'm sure if you're

listed the show you you saw the news about someone Rushdie and I've thought a lot

about it this week I I'm not sure anything

interesting except condolences, but it's the kind of show where if we were more breaking news focused,

you drop a special episode about Solomon Rushd, right?

Like there's stores that we listen to be like, let's do 20 minutes on this, this is an important thing,

but we don't. So I guess then we get a little bit of time to process but it's an

interesting format to have because sometimes it's like it broke yesterday

sometimes it's been a week so there's diversity even within our own molling

cycle on this.

I can't totally remember.

I think we might have done a special drop-in

about the Nobel one year maybe. Yeah. and I know when Harper Collins announced to kill a what it's not to

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