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Book Riot - The Podcast

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Book Riot - The Podcast

Riot New Media Group, Inc

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

4.41.1K Ratings

🗓️ 24 July 2023

⏱️ 66 minutes

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Summary

Jeff and Rebecca talk about the best-selling books of 2023, Obama's summer reading list, The Covenant of Water, 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! Looking for fascinating stories, informed takes, useful advice, and more drawn from our collective experience as power readers, teachers, librarians, booksellers, and bookish professionals? Subscribe to The Deep Dive, a biweekly newsletter featuring stories to inform and inspire readers, to get exclusive content delivered to your inbox! This content contains affiliate links. When you buy through these links, we may earn an affiliate commission. Discussed in this episode: First Edition! First Edition on Twitter. First Edition on Instagram. The First Edition (free) Substack. The Book Riot Podcast Patreon Thanks to Charley Burlock for featuring us in this!  Obama summer reading, babyyyyyyy PW: Best-selling books of 2023 so far Generational shift at PRH as iconic editors take buyout The Covenant of Water by Abraham Verghese Crook Manifesto by Colson Whitehead Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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This is the Bookry podcast. It's weekly news and talk show about what's new, cool, and worth talking about in the world of books and reading.

0:37.0

Today is Thursday, July 20, 2023.

0:41.0

I'm Jeff O'Neill here is Rebecca Shinsky. I'm coming off of you know I've spent the last three or four days

0:46.6

now that I finished the covenant of water really close reading the six-part Oprah produced podcast

0:52.1

Have you?

0:52.9

Really going over line by line.

0:55.3

Well, you watch it once to just get the feel of it.

0:58.6

Then you watch it, then you listen and watch again to take notes and really absorb it.

1:02.1

So, that's now an Oprah Recap podcast.

1:06.5

Right.

1:07.5

Oh, we're going to talk about Mo-E-Pestepa stuff in a second.

1:09.7

I was going to do front-list FOIA first because it's a little bit newsy in this regard.

1:13.6

We're coming to the end in all seriousness.

1:15.8

We did have a couple of listeners email said, I didn't know what you're talking about and so I checked

1:19.4

out the Oprah coverage of Covenant in Water and oh my God you were kind of underselling it.

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