This is the Bookry podcast. I'm Jeff O'Neill.

And I'm Rebecca Shinsky.

And we today are talking about a whole bunch of stuff.

I guess the lead story this week is for once in our stupid lives we have read

some of the Booker Prize long list title. We have. This is a novel situation for me to be in.

I know.

1 million percent intended.

I feel like it should have improved the Paris medal count for the US, just that there

was like meaningful American, like that's worth at least a bronze, right? It's at least as good as mixed air rifle.

Well, you know, I did learn earlier this week thanks to LITHUB that for a brief period of time in the early 20th century,

the arts were a part of the Olympics there was an Olympic

writing and poetry contest so we could bring it back for I don't know literary citizenship

saw that headline or that that piece and I didn't read it because it kind of broke my brain.

Like I started thinking about like how would you even do that?

I can see how you could do like a sculpture inspired by the Olympics.

There was an architecture category that is really interesting.

One of the specs was that it had to be new work that had never been like published or sold

anywhere before and it had to be directly related to sport.

One of the winners was a poem about jousting, I believe, or fencing.

And it was written by under a pseudonym one of the men who

created the Olympic writing competition. Like shocking that's like you know

winning every tournament at the both course you know winning every turn of it at the golf course you're going.

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