Loyal to the Bit

Book Riot - The Podcast

Riot New Media Group, Inc

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

4.4 • 1.1K Ratings

🗓️ 8 March 2021

⏱️ 58 minutes

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Summary

Jeff and Rebecca talk about the Seuss Enterprise’s decision to stop publishing a half-dozen books, continue ruminating on a “is it good?” segment, admire Murakami’s evasive accessibility, get into some labor talk, and finally discuss the current state of podcasting. Discussed in this episode: 6 Dr Seuss books ceasing publication because of racist imagery Seuss Enterprise’s statement Murakami’s t-shirt line Spotify podcast listeners forecasted to top Apple this year Union booksellers protesting at Strand Biden expresses support for Alabama workers attempting to unionize Amazon warehouse Great long piece about recent PoC hires poised to lead publishing in a new direction 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 is it.
0:02.0	Level 23.
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0:04.0	Final. Let's go.
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0:06.0	Go!
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0:30.0	K slash claims. Welcome to the Bookwright Podcast. It's weekly news and talk show about what's new cool and worth talking
0:37.3	about in the world of books and reading. It is Friday, March 5th and I definitely know that it's 2021. I was wondering if we were going to time travel this week. I have to say I enjoyed how much other people enjoyed the flub and your subsequent needling me of it.
0:57.8	Our staff enjoyed it.
0:59.5	People on Twitter enjoyed, well actually people on Twitter enjoyed me talking about the olden times of
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