Bonus Preview: Deals Deals Deals for August 2026
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08/14/26
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A little bonus preview of our August edition of Deals, Deals, Deals, a format in which Jeff unleashes book deal announcements of notes on Rebecca. Listen to the full episode, and every bonus episode we have ever done, by becoming a member of The Book Riot Podcast Patreon.
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Previous Episode
Jeff and Rebecca check in the last gasp of Emily Wilson's The Odyssey discourse, The New York Times' list of the Best Thrillers of the Century so Far, on-going developments in AI accusations in publishing, recent reading, and much more.
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Discussed in this episode:
Update: The Wilson pan of The Odyssey is so big that The Onion parodied it, and Emily Wilson wrote another one!
Book with $2.4 million advance pulled over AI allegations
NYT names the 50 best thrillers of the century so far
Apple is developing an adaptation of Whitehead’s Harlem Trilogy
Naomi Alderman’s “couch to 5k” for reading
GRRM issues our regularly scheduled reminder that The Winds of Winter is never happening
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Next Episode
Jeff and Rebecca open the show by discussing President Obama's forthcoming book podcast, before digging into the ramifications of Libro.fm selling ebooks, triaging 2025's book sales, talking some more about AI. And then in Frontlist Foyer, Jeff workshops his INSIDE OUT theory of reading personalities.
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Discussed in this episode:
Final number: publishing sales increased 2.5% in 2025
Barack Obama is releasing a books podcast
An interesting data point: AI use is not disqualifying for the Pulitzer, provided it is disclosed and assistive -- and 5 of the 2026 winners disclosed it
And Hank Green has rolled out a personal AI policy that is very reasonable
Study shows AI-generated stories have bias to male characters
Claude is rolling out watermarks on AI-generated text
Certified human writing panopticon gymnastics
A 30-day protocol/bootcamp for reading more
NYT tests Pangram in a serious way
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