Simon & Schuster's Odyssey Isn't Over, National Book Awards Open Up, and More

Book Riot - The Podcast

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4.3 • 965 Ratings

🗓️ 26 February 2024

⏱️ 65 minutes

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Summary

Jeff and Rebecca talk about LeVar Burton's book deal, opening up the National Book Awards, book banning news, and why no one should think this is the forever home for Simon & Schuster. Subscribe to the podcast via RSS, Apple Podcasts, and Spotify. For more industry news, sign up for our Today in Books daily newsletter! 2024 is the tenth year of the Read Harder Challenge! Join us as we make our way through 24 tasks meant to expand our reading horizons and diversify our TBRs. To get book recommendations for each task, sign up for the Read Harder newsletter. We’ll also keep you informed about other cool reading challenges, readathons, and more across the bookish internet. If you become a paid subscriber, you get even more recommendations plus community features, where you can connect with a community of passionate, like-minded readers in a cozy and supportive corner of the internet. Visit bookriot.com/readharder to sign up. Discussed in this episode: Sign up for Better Living Through Books and the BR Pod newsletter First Edition! The Book Riot Podcast Patreon National Book Awards open to authors who are not US citizens LeVar Burton Signs 2-book deal West Virginia House passes bill that allows prosecution of librarians Maryland legislators introduce the Freedom to Read Act ALA releases “book résumés” to help fight book bans Marilynne Robinson remains lovely KKR is in no hurry to sell S&S. But they will Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:30.0	This is the Bookry podcast. I'm Jeff O'Neill.
0:34.0	I'm Rebecca Shinsky.
0:36.0	You're still not used to it yet.
0:38.0	You're still not used to doing this yet.
0:40.0	What do I have to do to you?
0:42.0	After my name, you say your name I'm just over here
0:46.7	opening tabs looking at LaVar Burton getting ready to do my job and forgetting to
0:51.8	introduce you do the jobs in order your first getting ready to do my job and for getting to introduce myself.
0:53.0	Do the jobs in order.
0:54.4	Your first job is to say your name on the podcast intro.
0:58.8	I am Rebecca Shinsky.
1:00.2	We are not going to edit that intro.
1:01.8	No, we're staying in.
1:03.0	Because you know, let that be a lesson to you.
1:05.0	I know, last week when I had Vanessa on,
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