Hey folks, Jeff and I are super excited to share with you today the very first episode of our new project, Zero to Well Read. It's a podcast about all the things you need to know about the books you wish you'd read or the ones that it's been a while since you've read or the ones that you feel like you're supposed to have read, but maybe you really just want to know

what the main gist is. We have had so much fun planning and working on this, and we couldn't be

happier to share it all with you. Today's inaugural episode is about the great Gatsby, and you can

find all of the future ones in their very own feed, so please search for Zero to Well Red wherever you listen to

your podcasts. If you like the show, ratings and reviews, and of course sharing with your bookish

friends will help us get going. We so appreciate it. We'll be back in your ears on Monday with the

news.

Welcome to Zero to Well Read, a podcast about everything you need to know about the books you wish you'd read. I'm Jeff O'Neill.

And I'm Rebecca Shinsky, settle in old sport. We're going to kick things off with The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald on the occasion this year of its 100th anniversary. But since we're all new here, this is our first time at Zero to Well Red.

We're going to talk a little bit first about what we're doing with this podcast.

So Rebecca and I have been stewing on something in this vein for a long time.

I'm mixing my metaphors here, though Fitzgerald does that quite a bit.

So maybe I'm in the right, in the right, in the right

zone of a show that engages deeply and entertainingly and sillily with a book, but also gives some

sense of the context, right? So if you miss English class, but also like podcast podcast vibes this is the show for you the kind of

show frankly we would like to listen to aback i don't think is unfair to say at this point we're

really aiming for the edutainment zone with good doses of both the edu and the tainment if you have

found your way into this feed and you don't know who we are,

Jeff is the, it's been a while since we had a new podcast feed. Jeff is the CEO and one of the co-founders

of Book Riot. I am the chief of staff. We've been working together, writing about books on the

internet together since 2011, each of us individually, I think, since about 2008. So we've got a lot of years

behind us of writing and now talking about books on the internet. We've been hosting the

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