Talking Audiobooks with Spotify & FLASHLIGHT by Susan Choi

Book Riot - The Podcast

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4.3 • 965 Ratings

🗓️ 2 June 2025

⏱️ 58 minutes

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Summary

Jeff and Rebecca talk to Spotify's Associate Director for Audiobooks Editorial Katie del Rosario about curating audiobooks for Spotify, getting people to try audiobooks, spotlighting special titles, and more. Then, Jeff and Sharifah talk about Flashlight by Susan Choi, one of the most anticipated releases of the summer. Subscribe to the podcast via RSS, Apple Podcasts, and Spotify. Sign up for the Book Riot Podcast Newsletter and follow the show on Instagram and Bluesky. Get more industry news with our Today in Books daily newsletter. Tailored Book Recommendations has the chops to find the right read for your loved one this Father’s Day. Gift TBR today starting at just $18! Check out Strong Sense of Place wherever you get your podcasts, or visit strongsenseofplace.com This content contains affiliate links. When you buy through these links, we may earn an affiliate commission. Discussed in this episode: Spotify Audiobooks Flashlight by Susan Choi The Book Riot Podcast Live at Powell's on July 9th. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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1:02.0	Welcome to the Book Riot podcast.
1:02.8	I'm Jeff O'Neill.
1:04.0	We have two segments today.
1:08.1	Up first, Rebecca and I talk to Katie Del Rosario,
1:13.4	who is the associate director of audiobook editorial for Spotify, which means she works on the audiobooks that are presented, curated, listed, recommended, listened to
1:21.3	on the Spotify platform for their listeners.
1:24.2	Really interesting conversation.
1:25.9	There, also, in the second half of the show, Sharifa is back.
1:30.2	She joins me to talk about one of the marquee releases of June, the summer of the year, really,
1:36.6	Flashlight by Susan Choi, Susan Choi, who of course won the National Book Award for Trust Exercise.
1:42.3	And this is a really anticipated book.
1:44.0	We talk about our reading
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