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Book Riot - The Podcast

The 2025 Nobel Prize in Literature, NBA Finalists, and more award season news. PLUS: Hachette CEO David Shelley

Book Riot - The Podcast

Riot New Media Group, Inc

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

4.3965 Ratings

🗓️ 13 October 2025

⏱️ 87 minutes

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Summary

Sharifah Williams joins Jeff to talk about the 2025 Nobel for Literature, National Book Award finalists and more award season news. Then, Hachette CEO David Shelly talks to Jeff about book banning, inclusivity, and other issues facing the publishing world. Subscribe to the podcast via RSS, Apple Podcasts, and Spotify. The Book Riot Podcast is a proud member of the Airwave Podcast Network. Discussed in this episode: Check out Zero to Well-Read! Subscribe to The Book Riot Newsletter for regular updates to get the most out of your reading life. The 2025 Nobel Prize in Literature 2025 National Book Award Finalists Kirkus Prize Announced Baker & Taylor going away? The Warmth of Other Suns by Isabel Wilkerson Audition by Katie Kitamura Near Flesh by Katherine Dunn This content contains affiliate links. When you buy through these links, we may earn an affiliate commission. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:49.0

This is the bookwrypt podcast.

0:50.9

I'm Jeff O'Neill.

0:51.8

Sitting in for Rebecca this week is Sharifah Williams. It's award season,

0:57.8

Sharia, like in a big, huge way. You and I were both writing about the Nobel Prize laureate

1:02.5

independently for different. We may have a little of messy middle of our product lineup right now.

1:10.8

We're both doing that, but we both

1:12.0

got a chance to look at it. I assume you went out in red Hirsch 07-2729 in the meantime. You just

1:19.4

went and did that, I too? Oh, yeah. You know, I love a good run-on sentence. I actually can't

1:26.8

remember which one they said was the one that

1:29.3

had only one, like which book had only one period and which was just like one sentence. And I was

1:34.9

like, nope, I already attempted Ulysses. I'm not doing this. So the news is, of course, that

1:42.7

the Nobel Prize for Literature was awarded this morning to Laslo Krasnohorkai.

1:47.3

The name, believe it or not, sounds like it looks, as I wrote in the book riot newsletter this morning,

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