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Book Riot - The Podcast

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Book Riot - The Podcast

Riot New Media Group, Inc

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

4.41.1K Ratings

🗓️ 23 October 2023

⏱️ 69 minutes

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Summary

Jeff and Rebecca talk about the celebrity memoir boomlet, Levar Burton hosting the National Book Awards, renovating Barnes & Noble, Scholastic separating LBGTQ+ and other marginalized books, the Lessons in Chemistry adaptation, and more. Subscribe to the podcast via RSS, Apple Podcasts, and Spotify. For more industry news, sign up for our Today in Books daily newsletter! Autumn is here, which means it's time to curl up with a great read and get cozy — whatever your version of cozy looks like. Whether it's romance, creepy reads, modern classics, or escapist reads you crave, TBR can help you find the perfect books for your fall reading, with options curated to your specific reading tastes. Visit mytbr.co to find out more and sign up — it only takes a few minutes! This content contains affiliate links. When you buy through these links, we may earn an affiliate commission. Discussed in this episode: First Edition! The Book Riot Podcast Patreon RIP Louise Glück Update: Michelle Williams is the support narrator for Britney’s memoir Update: LeVar Burton to host NBA ceremony Scholastic confirms option to withhold LGBTQ+ titles from book fairs Barnes & Noble’s new looks seem to be paying off That American Fiction trailer tho Family Meal by Bryan Washington Blackouts by Justin Torres MCU Lessons in Chemistry by Bonnie Garmus Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0

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0:28.0

Welcome to the Book Right Podcast. It's a weekly news and talk show about what's new, cool,

0:36.1

and worth talking about in the world of books and reading. Today's Thursday, October 19th, 2023. I'm Jeff O'Neill here with Rebecca Shinsky coming to you from book Riot.com

0:47.0

Let's see we did an unusual thing last week in the feed if you saw Rebecca got on her podcast horse and did a little

0:55.0

little intro and a re-ebecher podcast worse and did a little intro and a rerun a posting of

0:58.6

our discussion of Louise Glick especially a tomato poem.

1:03.0

Had some very nice email.

1:05.0

I didn't forward this to you,

1:06.0

Rebecca. I should send it to you.

1:08.0

But I don't remember if I had affirmative consent,

1:11.0

but a librarian sent an email to their constituents, you know,

1:15.9

commemorating Louise Glick and in which she had a video of her reading that poem while being mauled by friendly goats out in a field somewhere

1:27.6

out in a packure.

1:28.6

This is gold.

1:29.6

Yeah, so I got to send that to you.

1:31.0

I meant to do that before.

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