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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

🗓️ 26 September 2022

⏱️ 70 minutes

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Summary

Jeff and Rebecca talk about the National Book Award longlist, which apparently triggers an existential crisis for Jeff. 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! This content contains affiliate links. When you buy through these links, we may earn an affiliate commission. Discussed in this episode: The Book Riot Podcast Patreon The 2022 National Book Award Longlists Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Transcript

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0:00.0

This is the Book Ride Podcast, this weekly news and talk show about what's new, cool and worth talking about in the world of books and reading.

0:09.0

Recording on Thursday, September 22nd, 2022.

0:14.6

I'm Jeff O'Neill here at Rebecca Schinsky,

0:17.5

coming to you from the niche outlet of Book Riot.

0:25.0

Is that shade or what's the inverse of Shade? I like it.

0:27.0

I mean, the truth is we are in the chat.

0:29.2

So the joke here is no one should get this.

0:30.9

It's Kelly Jensen's coverage and Danicus too was cited in the

0:35.8

Atlantic about book banning and censorship and making the point where it hasn't

0:40.4

really been covered by mainstream outlets but has been covered by niche outlets, like

0:44.3

Book Right, and something called the First Amendment, which is a freedom, or you know, a first amendment.

0:49.2

Well, it's in the, it's on the tin, freedom of expression.

0:52.9

And we've been having fun with that.

0:54.9

And I think the truth is we are,

0:56.6

if we're not a niche outlet, who is?

0:58.7

It's okay.

0:59.2

We're a niche outlet.

0:59.8

We write about books and stuff.

1:01.0

That's okay.

1:02.0

Our company's mission statement says we create

1:04.4

content for niche communities. That's true. There you go. Anyway, it's nice to be

1:10.4

noticed however small and belittling the notice might be.

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