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Book Riot - The Podcast

JAMES Wins the Pulitzer & Moms, Dads, and Grads Recommendations Part 2

Book Riot - The Podcast

Riot New Media Group, Inc

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

4.3965 Ratings

🗓️ 7 May 2025

⏱️ 90 minutes

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Summary

First, Jeff and Rebecca digest Percival Everett's Pulitzer win (including a little palace intrigue of the literary variety). Then, they conclude this go-round of reader recommendation requests. Subscribe to the podcast via RSS, Apple Podcasts, and Spotify. Sign up for the Book Riot Podcast Newsletter and follow the show on Instagram and Bluesky. Get more industry news with our Today in Books daily newsletter. Trust your reading list to the experts at Tailored Book Recommendations who have recommended over 160,000 books to readers of all kinds. Let TBR match you with your next favorite read! Get started for only $18 at mytbr.co! Discussed in This Episode: The The Pulitzer Board Overrule The Jury? The Book Riot Podcast Patreon The Book Riot Podcast on Instagram The Book Riot Podcast Newsletter Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0

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0:08.2

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0:51.3

This is the bookwry podcast. I'm Jeff O'Neill.

0:53.8

I'm Rebecca Schinsky. And Rebecca, you called

0:56.3

your shot yesterday. Ooh, yeah, I did. You even went so far as to pre-record an Instagram reel for it,

1:04.0

which when I told that to Michelle, she was like, wow. Like, I don't know if you thought it was like

1:08.0

carving out Mount Rushmore, but still, you called it. You were that you were really that confident I felt pretty sure and of course what we're talking about is that Percival Everett would win the Pulitzer for fiction for James I was just going to be really surprised which the Pulitzer's can be surprising but I wanted to have it ready to go if he was

1:29.2

going to win. And I thought it was worth, you know, just spend the time, make the video. If he had

1:34.6

gotten it, like we, I would have jesus hopped to and made a new video about whoever had won it,

1:40.6

probably trying to put my face together about that it wasn't Percival Lever. It was, I'm not going to write obituaries of people in advance. We don't have to be

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