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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

🗓️ 1 March 2021

⏱️ 70 minutes

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Summary

Jeff and Rebecca talk about another format they might want to try for talking about books, whether 2020 means we can finally stop confusing the fate of bookstores with the fate of publishing, catch up with some listener feedback, and much more. Discussed in this episode: Bookstore sales fell 28.3% in 2020 Big-picture look at the possible impact of PRH/S&S Charles Yu establishes prize for Taiwanese American writers Underground Railroad teaser trailer Hillary Clinton writing novel w/ Louise Penny Coming Soon: Sword, Stone, Table edited by Jenn Northington and Swapna Krishna See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0

Welcome back to the Book Riot Podcast. We're recording on February 26, 2018. We talk about...

0:08.7

2018.

0:10.7

2018.

0:11.7

We got to nuke that. No, I'm keeping it. Throw it in. 2018. No, I'm going to nuke that. No, I'm keeping it. Throw it in. 2018.

0:15.0

2021. Wow, Jeff. You know what it was is I was looking at my timer for the recording. So and I just I said the word I want to I

0:25.8

I know I really know it's 2019 I know it's 2019 Rebecca what happened on

0:30.4

February 26th of 2018 do we even want to go back there?

0:34.0

I think I've told you this story before but I'll get it done on tape here right now about... I'm Jeff O'Neill, she's Rebecca Shinsky,

0:39.0

just so you know who's talking about you about weird stuff. When my first child was born, our first child

0:46.2

Michelle, my first child was born in March, you know, the first six weeks or so

0:50.2

after you have a baby, maybe the next 10 years years it remains to be seen when you come out of it

0:54.1

but especially the first we have a baby no one sleeping there's crying got breastfeed we're

0:58.6

doing all that we're trying and all the stuff that goes on with that you're out of time

1:01.7

you know you're like

1:03.0

existentially jet-lagged essentially all the whole time away around it and so some the

1:07.9

the UPS driver rings the doorbell and I say I get the package this is in early April and I go and I said thank you

1:19.5

happy new year.

1:22.4

There's an entire curbier enthusiasm episode dedicated to like how late is too late for

1:29.3

happy new year and I'm pretty sure we'd all agree that April's too late though.

1:33.0

Yeah.

1:35.0

Once you have the vernal equinox, you got to stop with the New Year agreement.

1:39.0

It's technically spring.

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