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Book Riot - The Podcast

No Country for Old Scuba Divers

Book Riot - The Podcast

Riot New Media Group, Inc

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

4.4 • 1.1K Ratings

🗓️ 23 January 2023

⏱️ 68 minutes

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Summary

Jeff and Rebecca follow up on reading goggles and scorched earth memoirs, look at other angles on unions in publishing, survey what recent-ish books appear on college syllabi, fail to name the Booker Prize statue, and then finally sputter about the new Cormac McCarthy books. Follow the podcast via RSS, Apple Podcasts, and Spotify. The show can also be found on Stitcher. For more industry news, sign up for our Today in Books daily newsletter! This content contains affiliate links. When you buy through these links, we may earn an affiliate commission. DISCUSSED IN THIS EPISODE: The Book Riot Podcast Patreon TBR for Valentine’s Day PW takes a look at the ongoing HC labor dispute Cool thing – deep dive into the books from the 90s that appear on college syllabi now Competition to name the Booker Prize statue Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0

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For chicken worth dipping, it world of books and reading.

0:37.0

Today is Thursday, January 19th, 2023. I'm Jeff O'Neill, she's Rebecca Shinsky coming to you from Book Riot.com.

0:48.0

I got to warn you Rebecca. I've been I've been leaving my coat out. My shoes are all over the place. Frontless

0:55.0

FOIA needs some attention. So we're going to spend a lot of time on Frontless FOIA.

0:58.9

There's some stuff that needs to go to Goodwill. Some Amazon returns. I think that something going back. some I have some front list foyer as well and I was looking at my list and sort of

1:15.0

waffling like some of my front lists that I've read is not out yet and I couldn't

1:18.8

decide if I should talk about it now or wait until it comes out but maybe we'll just fully occupy front list for you today I'm excited.

1:25.3

Yeah I think that's an interesting question maybe for the listeners do they care

1:29.3

if the books aren't out yet because if I were you I'd want to talk about it while the pizza was

1:34.4

still relatively fresh so depending on how long that takes might be might be

1:41.0

kind of interesting so okay we're gonna get it to here in just a second.

1:45.7

You wanna tell people about a TBR real quick

1:48.0

before we do our first sponsor break?

1:49.8

We'll do an internal sponsor break,

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