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Book Riot - The Podcast
09/25/23
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Jeff and Rebecca talk about the National Book Award for Fiction longlist, a bunch of red states leaving the American Library Association, a teacher getting fired for teaching The Diary of Anne Frank, and Oprah's next surprising book club pick.
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Deep Dive shout-out: The Bestseller List is Broken
Texas teacher fired after reading aloud from graphic novel of Anne Frank’s diary
Project Gutenberg releases 5,000 public domain audiobooks w/ AI narration
Bidding opens Tues 9/26, in the Authors for Voices of Color auction to support WNDB
Oprah’s next pick is also 600+ pages long, and she’s only giving it a month
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Time For Bed
September 18, 2023
•49m
Jeff and Rebecca talk about a bunch of recent reading, Drew Barrymore getting booted from the National Book Awards, and I guess that pretty much covers it.
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Book Riot's editorial team is writing for casual and power readers alike over at The Deep Dive! During the month of September, all new free subscribers will be entered to win Parable of the Sower by Octavia Butler, plus 5 mystery books from The Deep Dive. To enter, simply start a free subscription to The Deep Dive. No payment method required!
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First Edition on Twitter. First Edition on Instagram. The First Edition (free) Substack.
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Ongoing: More authors sue OpenAI
National Book Awards drops Drew Barrymore as host
How to Say Babylon by Safiya Sinclair
Leave the World Behind by Rumaan Alam
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Borrowed and Banned
September 29, 2023
•26m
As an extra for you this week, we are delighted to share the first episode of Borrowed and Banned, a new podcast made by our friends at the Brooklyn Public Library. This 7-episode limited series, hosted by Virginia Marshall and Adwoa Adusei, tells the story of America's ideological war with its bookshelves by talking with students on the frontlines, the librarians and teachers whose livelihoods are endangered when they speak up, and the writers whose books have become a political battleground.
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