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Book Riot - The Podcast

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Book Riot - The Podcast

Riot New Media Group, Inc

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

4.41.1K Ratings

🗓️ 20 July 2020

⏱️ 58 minutes

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Summary

Jeff and Rebecca talk Tom Hank’s GREYHOUND, Lisa Lucas leaving The National Book Awards for Random House, The National Books Critics Circle getting its stuff together, how they are right about Colson Whitehead, and more. This episode is sponsored by: Blacktop Wasteland by S. A. Cosby Migrations by Charlotte McConaghy With the Bark Off: Conversations from the LBJ Presidential Library Book Riot Insiders Discussed in this episode: NBCC rebuilding board Lisa Lucas leaving NBF for Pantheon We probably have to talk about Warren Ellis Book It! Is still a thing Michelle! Obama! Podcast! Colson Whitehead keeps winning things! See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0

Welcome back to the Book Ride Podcast.

0:05.0

This is Thursday, July 16th, 2020.

0:10.0

As always, that's most of the time.

0:12.0

I'm always Jeff O'Neill. Most of the time it's Jeff and Rebecca.

0:17.0

Yeah, coming to you from Book Riot.com. We're in the dog, I mean it's getting towards the dog days of summer all of a set what do you call is after July 4th before labor day is that the dog days of summer is exclusively August. Oh, that's a good question. I feel like the dog days are a, I know it when I feel it.

0:35.0

And in Richmond, it's when the temperature is consistently in the 90s or above, which hit, that hit this week. So you're in the 90s or above which hit that that hit this week so you're in the dog days we're in the dog days the

0:46.7

predicted high for Saturday is 100 no which is not acceptable, it's the dog days here.

0:53.5

It's gross.

0:54.5

Okay.

0:55.5

Got a lot of stuff.

0:57.1

I mean, kind of a follow-up-ish kind of a day today too.

1:00.1

I'm going to spring on you.

1:01.3

I watched Greyhound over the weekend, so we're going to do five minutes of Greyhound talk.

1:04.6

Oh good I wondered if you were going to like I did not watch it yet. I wondered if you were going to just like get fully in your dad vibe and

1:11.4

watch it. Wait Did Bob watch it?

1:13.0

He likes movies about ships.

1:15.0

Is he going to watch? He's going to.

1:16.0

He hasn't yet.

1:17.0

Yeah.

1:18.0

But first, let's do it.

1:20.0

Let's do a quick sponsor.

1:21.0

Today's episode is brought to you by Flat Iron Books publisher of Just Some

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