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4.3 • 965 Ratings

🗓️ 15 September 2025

⏱️ 87 minutes

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Book Riot's managing editor Vanessa Diaz joins Rebecca for a discussion about the National Book Awards longlists, authors' big settlement from Anthropic, and exciting adaptation news. Then, Vanessa takes Rebecca on a journey down the literary rabbit hole. Subscribe to the podcast via RSS, Apple Podcasts, and Spotify. Subscribe to The Book Riot Newsletter for regular updates to get the most out of your reading life. Ready for a cozy, bookish autumn? Let Tailored Book Recommendations help you find your next favorite read with handpicked suggestions from professional book nerds. Get started today from just $18! Discussed in this Episode: Anthropic agrees to pay $1.5 billion to settle book piracy lawsuit, but the judge has delayed it, citing concerns 2025 National Book Awards longlists are rolling out Audition is being adapted Annotated episode: The Original Gone Girl Agatha Christie: A Mysterious Life by Laura Thompson Ruth by Kate Riley The Wilderness by Angela Flournoy Murder Takes a Vacation by Laura Lippman The Macabre by Kosoko Jackson This content contains affiliate links. When you buy through these links, we may earn an affiliate commission. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	This is the Book Riot podcast. I'm Rebecca Schinsky. Jeff is out this week, so I am joined by one of my faves in the jump seat, Vanessa Diaz, BookRiates managing editor. Vanessa, thanks for being here. It's one of my favorite things to do, and I love to possibly think about what things I might say could embarrass Jeff on A Listen.
0:25.2	So this is always fun. Yeah, we have a pretty good track record going now of saying things that would make Jeff blush. And then we get feedback, not from him, but our co-worker Clint Cabler,
0:31.5	who's behind the scenes and also maybe delighted more than anyone else by something. I think so.
0:37.6	That makes anybody blush.
0:40.1	We're going to have fun today.
0:41.5	We have a little bit of news to cover, but we're also going to take this opportunity to
0:46.5	roll out a debut of a new feature, a new something that you've been working on, where you take
0:53.2	us down the book culture rabbit hole.
0:57.5	And I don't know anything else about it because that's how you have wanted it to be.
1:02.3	So we'll do news.
1:04.5	We'll catch up a little bit and we'll talk about our front list foyer what we've been reading
1:08.3	lately and then we will go down the Vanessa rabbit hole.
1:11.4	So I'm really excited for that. I know you've been just like Mr. Burns fingers over there
1:18.0	plotting. We're on a video so you can literally see me doing it without prompting. Yes, I'm really
1:23.9	excited to go down a little bit of a literary rabbit hole with everyone after we do some newsy bits.
1:28.8	Yeah, and we're hoping that this can be something that we do on some kind of more regular basis.
1:34.3	So, folks, as you get to hear the new segment, if you have thoughts or feedback, or really anything, you can email us at podcast at bookriot.com.
1:43.4	Our draft, Jeff's in my draft, of the big books of fall, is out
1:48.0	on the Patreon now. So you can check that out, patreon.com slash bookriot podcast. And our new show,
1:54.9	Zero to Well Red, launched last week with an episode about the Great Gatsby. As you're hearing
2:00.1	this in the name feed,
2:01.9	the next one coming on Tuesday will be Their Eyes Were Watching God by Zora Neal Hurston.
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