People Have Lost Their Minds

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🗓️ 15 May 2023

⏱️ 80 minutes

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Kelly Jensen joins Jeff to talk about two very weird publishing stories and then a long discussion about book banning and new legislation attempting to combat it. 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: First Edition! First Edition on Twitter. First Edition on Instagram. The First Edition (free) Substack. The Book Riot Podcast Patreon An Interview With the Author Whose Novel Is Rocketing up the Amazon Charts Thanks to a Tweet From Someone Called “Bigolas Dickolas” Right To Read Bills Taylor Swift Rumor Fuels Pre-Orders of Untitled Non-Fiction Book Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:28.0	This is the Book Right Podcast.
0:32.0	It's weekly news and talk show about what's new, cool and worth talking about in the world of books and reading.
0:36.0	Today's Thursday, May 11th, 2023, and I'm joined today by the artist form, no I'm not going to make that joke because it's you need some
0:44.3	prep I was going to do the the Twitter thing Kelly in say are you the mystery
0:48.0	guess no but people understand Kelly Jensen a book right here with me today
0:51.1	sitting in for backup so glad to have her join me
0:54.4	we're gonna talk about we were just doing before the show that our opening segment
0:58.2	is gonna call people have lost their damn minds and that's not even reference to book
1:01.9	manings and censorship Kelly.
1:03.2	Kelly who's who that's been going on this is a new kind of people losing their
1:08.0	damn minds in a fun way in a perplexing way I think Kelly thanks so much for being here today.
1:17.0	Yeah I'm really looking forward to it. I was supposed to sit in for Rebecca a couple
1:22.1	months ago but then I had like the worst week of my life
1:25.3	which is pretty impressive honestly given how bad every week has been for the last
1:30.4	like six years and it just didn't happen so I was I jumped at the chance
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