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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

🗓️ 4 October 2021

⏱️ 60 minutes

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Summary

Jeff and Rebecca talk about MacArthur award winners, Netflix big adaptation winners, and Harlem Shuffle by Colson Whitehead. Follow the podcast via RSS, Apple Podcasts, and Spotify. The show can also be found on Stitcher. Discussed in this episode: Our Fall Preview Draft Hanif Abdurraquib & Ibram X Kendi among MacArthur Genius Grant winners Colson Whitehead interview with Ezra Klein Netflix’s Most Popular Movies and Series See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Transcript

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0:00.0

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

0:06.2

and worth talking about in the world of books and reading and recording on Thursday, September 30th,

0:09.9

2021. I'm Jeff O'Neill here with Rebecca Shinsky.

0:14.0

Come to you from Book Riot.com, the last day of September.

0:18.6

Indeed it is.

0:19.4

Not sure if that really means anything.

0:21.3

I guess the new releases are coming hot and heavy. We told you in this show,

0:26.4

in a regular episode that it was going to be a chock-a-block fall, and then in our fall preview draft,

0:32.0

which you go get at bookwright.com slash fall

0:34.0

draft to pay what you will special episode. No ads.

0:38.0

D. R. M. Free available through Thanksgiving. We went through the new releases we thought the general leader would be most interested in and indeed we took one off the board because we both wanted it and it was kind of uninteresting to even have it on the board

0:52.1

Coulson Whiteheads Harlem Shuffle, came

0:54.5

out a couple weeks ago, I can't remember what the release date was, but we have both read it and we will

0:59.2

be talking about it for a few minutes in one of the segments of the show today but go check

1:03.1

out book ride.com slash fall draft if you haven't already votes are open you can

1:07.1

vote for a Rebecca or eyes basket of picks you can vote however you'd like but the

1:12.0

general idea is which basket of books the general reader would be most interested in some people in their responses to us have been like I'm not sure if this is me or the general reader it's fine.

1:21.0

You can vote for for an official for whatever reason you want there's no

1:24.4

wrong way to vote unless it's for Rebecca in which case I don't know what to tell you at

1:31.2

this point but we're we're still taking in tally drafts votes there and also

1:35.3

feedback about the gum road experience that's the platform we're using to

1:38.0

disseminate this episode and I think we've learned a lot and we can talk more

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