VIGIL by George Saunders
Book Riot - The Podcast
Riot New Media Group, Inc
4.4 • 1.1K Ratings
🗓️ 28 January 2026
⏱️ 51 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | Four billion pounds in pensions stolen in the largest armed robbery in British history. |
| 0:05.0 | The heist is just the beginning in Prime Videos must see new series, Steele. |
| 0:10.0 | H. H. Indians Indians! |
| 0:13.0 | Starring Sophie Turner. |
| 0:15.0 | These people won't be dead. |
| 0:17.0 | You can tell me how you're involved? |
| 0:18.0 | Heat magazine calls it unmissable. |
| 0:20.0 | You're in the big league now. |
| 0:22.4 | We need to take it out now. |
| 0:25.7 | Steel, new series. |
| 0:27.2 | Watch now only on Prime Video. |
| 0:33.7 | This is the Book Riot podcast. |
| 0:35.2 | I'm Jeff O'Neill. |
| 0:36.3 | And I'm Rebecca Shinsky. |
| 0:38.3 | And today we have the great pleasure. The devoting, I don't know how long, could be 10 minutes, could be 45 minutes, could be two hours. I know, we're not going to, it's a shorty, but it's not, um, we can't do anything in 10 minutes here. No, that's true. We can't even do the intro in less than 30 seconds. vigil by George Saunders, which comes out today. We're recording on Tuesday, January 27th. |
| 0:57.4 | The first, I'd say first really big book release of the year. I mean, I guess half his age came out last week, getting a lot of buzz, had some conversations with that about. I read the first five pages in a bookstore the other day. Bracing. It's a bracing five pages, |
| 1:11.3 | Rebecca. I have a flight coming up at the end of the week, and this feels to me like potential |
| 1:17.6 | plain reading. It sounds like it will be gripping. I'm going to give it a try. We'll see if I |
| 1:22.5 | have the stomach for it. Yeah. But I guess housekeeping stuff, zero to to well read there's a new episode out today |
| 1:29.4 | bartleby the scrivener our first foray into a short story and we had a good time supporting you |
| 1:34.2 | or we can do nothing for 10 minutes we went an hour and a half on 45 pages of bartle be the scrivener |
| 1:39.2 | one of my favorite ones we talked to we both love that story it holds up great and um so much weirder than you think it is |
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