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Book Riot - The Podcast

The Tyranny of Khaki

Book Riot - The Podcast

Riot New Media Group, Inc

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

4.41.1K Ratings

🗓️ 14 September 2020

⏱️ 49 minutes

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Summary

Jeff and Rebecca discuss rumors of PRH trying to buy Simon & Schuster, a bankrupt printer causing havoc in publishing, more cringe-inducing Dan Brown…stuff, a hero of the week, and much more. This episode is sponsored by: The Insomniacs by Marit Weisenberg Before She Was Helen by Caroline B. Cooney Now That I’ve Found You by Kristina Forest Book Riot Insiders Discussed in this episode: Serious issues w/ book printers set industry behind for the season This amazing Dan Brown profile Bertelsmann interested in buying Simon & Schuster PRH workforce diversity report Madhulika Sikka in as VP at Crown And Gerry Howard retiring from Doubleday Heroes of the Week: Parents created Liberation Station when their son wanted to see more Black boys in books See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0

Oh Rebecca I'm so frazzled. I'm so frazzled. I know.

0:07.0

Hello and welcome to a podcast.

0:11.0

About things?

0:12.0

Yeah, I'm here in Oregon and the sky is a

0:16.2

Blade Runner blood orange. So eerie. So it's weird we were out inad out inadvertently probably with my kids yesterday. We're not going outside today walking and my son

0:28.1

And that looks like a blood moon you don't want your that's not what you want to hear is your kid saying, look at the blood moon.

0:33.4

That's not what you're looking for.

0:34.1

Not in the middle of the day too.

0:35.8

Not in the middle of the day, you're walking around.

0:38.5

This is the Book Right podcast, as you know probably if you're listening to it. We're catching up. We're now in, boy there's so much news,

0:45.8

there's so much news that it's even hard to know where to start.

0:50.4

And we've had a week off, like two weeks ago it was still the dog days and then we took

0:54.2

Labor Day off and now it's just the fall. So here we are. Here we are. But we'll get to some

1:01.0

follow-up. We'll get to some new stories but before, let's do a sponsor.

1:05.0

This episode is sponsored by Penguin Teen,

1:10.0

publishers of Of Jade and Dragons by Amber Chen.

1:13.0

Mulan meets Iron Widow in this thrilling silk punk fantasy about a girl who must disguise herself as a boy

1:20.0

and then enter the famed and dangerous engineers guild trials to unravel the mystery of her father's murder.

1:27.0

18-year-old Aui-Ying dreams of becoming a world-class engineer like her father,

1:32.0

but after his sudden murder murder her life falls apart.

1:35.4

Left with only a journal of his engineering secrets and a jade pendant, a heartbroken

1:40.6

Ying follows the trail.

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