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**Book Riot – The Podcast**

News in the world of books and reading, including hot industry releases, adaptations, publishing industry events, and more with Book Riot’s Jeff O’Neal and Rebecca Schinsky.
Book Riot is the largest independent editorial book site in North America and home to a host of media, from podcasts to newsletters to original content, all designed around diverse readers and across all genres.

Latest Episodes:

Selling UK Covers in the US? Plus: a PLA report, JAMES is legit, and more. Apr 15, 2024

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Jeff and Rebecca talk about some recent book-related travel things, do some quick adulation of James, and much more.

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How about the nugget in this piece on AI that Meta thought about buying Simon & Schuster

Amazon grab-and-go was a sham

Real Americans by Rachel Khong

The Unsettled by Ayana Mathis

James by Percival Everett

There's Always This Year by Hanif Abdurraqib

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Shogun, 3 Body Problem, Masters of the Air, A Gentleman in Moscow, Ripley...and Dune 2 Apr 10, 2024

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Jeff and Rebecca check in with a selection of recent streaming adaptations (Shogun, 3 Body Problem, Masters of the Air, A Gentleman in Moscow, Ripley) and briefly discuss the year of Dune.

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Book Design, Spotify Rate Rumors, a New Museum of Children's Literature, and more Apr 08, 2024

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Sharifah Williams joins Jeff to talk about fonts of all things, plus what's going on with Spotify, the tough media landscape, and more.

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HarperCollins saves thousands of trees with small tweak to book design

Spotify Might Be Raising Prices. Kinda Told Ya.

New museum for Children’s literature opens in Kansas City

What I Would Do If I Were Starting Book Riot...Today

Jeff Commits a TikTok

Please, Baby, Please by Spike Lee

Little Blue Truck

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The "It" Books of April Apr 03, 2024

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Jeff and Rebecca talk about the "it" books of the month. And struggle to pronounce Amor Towles.

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The Paris Novel by Ruth Reichl

Shakespeare: The Man Who Pays the Rent by Judi Dench

The Cemetery of Untold Stories by Julia Alvarez

Table for Two by Amor Towles

The Familiar by Leigh Bardugo

Reboot by Justin Taylor

The Real Americans by Rachel Khong

Funny Story by Emily Henry

The Demon of Unrest by Erik Larson

Knife by Salman Rushdie

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The Best TV Shows of the 21st Century [Teaser] Apr 01, 2024

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Jeff and Rebecca discuss the idea of prestige TV as the literary fiction of visual media, dissect The Hollywood Reporter's list of the 50 best shows of the 21st century, and dive into their own favorites.

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Notes from a Reconnaissance Mission Into the State of Publishing Apr 01, 2024

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After noting the passing of Daniel Kahneman, Jeff debriefs Rebecca on his most recent round of discussions with the publishing world.

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RIP Daniel Kahneman

Thinking, Fast and Slow

The Undoing Project

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Underrated Authors Mar 27, 2024

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Jeff and Rebecca talk about authors they think are underrated. Even if only a little.

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Our Media Diets [Teaser] Mar 26, 2024

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Jeff and Rebecca walk through their non-book media diets.

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The NICKEL BOYS Adaptation, DC to Honor the First Trans Superhero, and a Basket of Book Banning News Mar 25, 2024

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Book Riot's managing editor Vanessa Diaz joins Rebecca to discuss an upcoming adaptation of Colson Whitehead's The Nickel Boys, the National Book Foundation's 5 Under 35 honorees, DC's plan to celebrate the first trans superhero, and more.

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There’s a big screen adaptation of Nickel Boys coming soon

DC Pride to honor creator of the first trans superhero

Illinois school district pulls out of statewide book award

Meanwhile, in Virginia, school district cancels district-wide read of Wishtree because it contains a tree that has both male and female reproductive parts. Yep.

Congrats to the National Book Foundation’s 5 Under 35 honorees

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The Hunter by Tana French

Oye by Melissa Mogollon

The Tower by Flora Carr

The Exvangelicals by Sarah McCammon

Sociopath by Patric Gagne

Great Expectations by Vinson Cunningham

James by Percival Everett

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People Will Come, Ray Mar 20, 2024

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Jeff is away this week, so in honor of baseball season getting underway, we are rerunning our episode in which Jeff and Rebecca talk about Field of Dreams and the book it's based on, W.P. Kinsella's Shoeless Joe.

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