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Book Riot - The Podcast

The Apocalypse is For Everybody

Book Riot - The Podcast

Riot New Media Group, Inc

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

4.4 • 1.1K Ratings

🗓️ 30 January 2023

⏱️ 61 minutes

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Summary

Jeff and Rebecca consider listener feedback, talk about Goodreads users’s most anticipated books of 2023, a wild use case for modern chatbots and books, TikTok’s ability to put its thumb on the scale, and much more. 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: The Book Riot Podcast Patreon TBR for Valentine’s Day We’re hiring! Update: HarperCollins union reports that HC has agreed to mediation Chatbots for Books (this one for Talent by Tyler Cowen): GoodReads readers most anticipated books of 2023 TikTok confirms that employees can decide what goes viral Little Free Library launches Indigenous Library program Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Transcript

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0:00.0

This is the Bookry Podcast.

0:02.8

It's a weekly news and talk show about what's new, cool, and worth talking about

0:06.3

in the world of books and reading.

0:07.8

Recording on Thursday, January 26, 2023, I'm Jeff O'Neill. She's Rebecca Shinsky coming to you from Book Riot.com.

0:18.6

I've got to say today is one of those days where we're recording a Patreon episode right after this and it's so juicy

0:25.4

that I need to focus on the news stories because we are talking about the book and

0:31.9

movie White Noise,

0:34.0

originally written by Don Delillo,

0:35.8

recently adapted for Netflix by Noah Baumbach,

0:40.2

starring Adam Driver and Greta Gerwig. it's a lot this is Rebecca's first time having white noise tuning in putting her

0:49.6

RCA 19 inch Cathayore 2 between two stations and letting the white noise flow over her.

0:56.2

I'm so excited, I have no idea what you're going to say, except I know there's a lot to say.

1:00.4

So if you're not a Patreon member and you're interested in that go to book write or excuse me

1:04.3

Patreon.com slash book write podcast and if you are you can look that in your feed next week

1:10.9

So there you go Rebecca any other teases you want to do?

1:14.0

Don't tell me, but how is this going to go?

1:16.0

What can you tell the people about the conversation we're about to have?

1:20.0

I mean me.

1:21.0

I did not know anything about white noise going in which you know is how I like to go into books I had a wild

1:28.0

Except it was a thing right like white noise was a thing right it was the thing but I didn know, I didn't know anything about the plot. I knew that

1:33.6

Bambach was into it and had spent a lot of time on the adaptation. This is very far from his usual

1:39.3

subject matter, so that's interesting. And I watched it Monday evening this week while Bob was out with friends and he came home and was like how was it and I just had this like dazed look on my face where he was like that kind of says it all. I don't know how to talk about what I just experienced. I'm going to try to articulate it by the time Jeff and I record that show. So I've been simmering. It was quite an experience. I have a lot of, like a lot of feelings and a lot of sounds to make. I don't know so much about words.

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