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Book Riot - The Podcast

Trump Sues PRH, The National Book Award Fiction Longlist, and More Book News

Book Riot - The Podcast

Riot New Media Group, Inc

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

4.3965 Ratings

🗓️ 22 September 2025

⏱️ 62 minutes

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Summary

Jeff and Rebecca talk about the week's book news, from Trump flimsy lawsuit against PRH and The New York Times (and why it matters, flimsy as it is), break down a couple of award lists, do some Jefftionary entries, and more. Subscribe to the podcast via RSS, Apple Podcasts, and Spotify. Ready for a cozy, bookish autumn? Let Tailored Book Recommendations help you find your next favorite read with handpicked suggestions from professional book nerds. Get started today from just $18! 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 National Book Awards fiction longlist is here Finalists for the 2025 Barnes & Noble Discover Prize Trump sues NYT and PRH  How “actual malice” works in defamation Scholastic launches streaming service Mother Mary Comes to Me by Arudhati Roy Baldwin: A Love Story by Nicholas Boggs The Ten Year Affair by Erin Somers Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0

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0:57.2

This is the bookwryb podcast. I'm Jeff O'Neill.

0:59.4

And I'm Rebecca Shinsky.

1:01.5

And we're trying not to get sued out here, Rebecca.

1:04.0

I mean, I'm kind of not kidding.

1:07.0

It feels, you know, maybe not inevitable, but not absolutely unlikely in this political climate.

1:14.6

Small fish in a big pond is our only defense here. So we'll get into the news of the week.

1:21.7

Let's see, a couple things to let you all know about. Zero to Well Red. There are two episodes out now.

1:29.0

Another one is coming that we're recording later today so by the time this is out in the public you patreon folks will be a few

1:33.2

days away episode three will be out in which we experiment with kind of we messed with our

1:39.8

syllabus a little bit by crashing vineland by Thomas Pynchon ahead of anticipation of

1:48.8

in conversation with one battle after another by Paul Thomas Anderson, which is coming out

1:54.8

next week, which is based on Vineland.

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