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Book Riot - The Podcast

Riot New Media Group, Inc

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

4.4 • 1.1K Ratings

🗓️ 25 September 2023

⏱️ 69 minutes

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Summary

Jeff and Rebecca talk about the National Book Award for Fiction longlist, a bunch of red states leaving the American Library Association, a teacher getting fired for teaching The Diary of Anne Frank, and Oprah's next surprising book club pick. Subscribe to the podcast via RSS, Apple Podcasts, and Spotify. For more industry news, sign up for our Today in Books daily newsletter! Book Riot’s editorial team is writing for casual and power readers alike over at The Deep Dive! During the month of September, all new free subscribers will be entered to win Parable of the Sower by Octavia Butler, plus 5 mystery books from The Deep Dive. To enter, simply start a free subscription to The Deep Dive. No payment method required! Discussed in this episode: First Edition! The Book Riot Podcast Patreon Deep Dive shout-out: The Bestseller List is Broken Texas teacher fired after reading aloud from graphic novel of Anne Frank’s diary Red states cut ties with ALA Reading IT’S PERFECTLY NORMAL Project Gutenberg releases 5,000 public domain audiobooks w/ AI narration Bidding opens Tues 9/26, in the Authors for Voices of Color auction to support WNDB Oprah’s next pick is also 600+ pages long, and she’s only giving it a month National Book Award Longlist Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:30.0	This is the book right podcast. It's weekly news and talk show about what's new, cool
0:37.4	and worth talking about in the world of books and reading. Today is Thursday,
0:40.5	September 21st,
0:43.0	2023, here with Rebecca Shinsky.
0:46.2	It's fall today, Rebecca.
0:47.8	It was 48 degrees and sunny at 6 a.m.
0:50.6	When I went for my run this morning,
0:52.2	it felt I had to wear long sleeves, a little chill in the air.
0:56.3	There was a local garden, one of the houses has a garden in front and they have a pumpkin
1:02.1	that's orange.
1:04.0	It's here.
1:06.0	It is here.
1:07.0	This is like a magical window in the year where it's dark when I get up or like dark enough
1:12.0	and I sit down, like first thing I do is sit down to meditate and when I
1:15.8	open my eyes like 10 to 20 minutes later day has arrived and it feels like magic it's just the best. I love this time of year.
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