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Jeff and Rebecca talk about the stunning reality of getting published from the slushpile, noodle about being well-read, and try to figure out what Jeff is going to read on vacation. He is genuinely stumped.
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Laura McGrath on the math of the slush pile
Trump’s new executive order targets libraries & museums…and what you can do about it
Keira Knightley Pride & Prejudice to be re-released 4/20 for 20th anniversary
Call your reps and get out there to protect the Dept of Education
Frontlist Foyer, sponsored by Thriftbooks
Hunchback
Beautyland
Everything I Never Told You
White Light
The Buffalo Hunter Hunter
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Traci Thomas of The Stacks podcast joins Jeff and Rebecca to talk about things we love (and hate) about talking about books online. Mostly it is really great! Mostly!
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Unstacked by Traci Thomas
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This is a preview of our live recording of the Most Recommendable Books of the Century (so far) at Powell's in beautiful downtown Portland, Oregon. If you aren't already a Patreon member, you can listen to the full recording when you sign up. Thanks to Powell's, our family and friends, and everyone who came out (or told someone else to). Hope to do it again sometime in the not-too-distant future.
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Jeff and Rebecca debrief a little about their live recording at Powell's last week before talking about Meta Streisanding itself, the exciting/scary news of Scorsese's for actual life Gilead adaptation, and more of the week's book news.
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Scorcese! Adapts! Gilead! Series!
Austin Butler & Saoirse Ronan to star in Deep Cuts adaptation
Moms for Liberty is shutting down BookLooks
Former Meta executive ordered to halt promotion of tell-all book
Spotify launches program to publish audiobooks for independent authors
WNDB announces first We Need Diverse Books Day April 3
Careless People
White Light by Jack Lohmann
We Tell Ourselves Stories by Alissa Wilkinson
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Jeff and Rebecca talk about The Antidote by Karen Russell.
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Jeff fills Rebecca on his recent trip to New York for publishing meetings before they talk about the newly announced Harper Lee collection and other items of note.
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Come See us live at Powell’s on March 13th
Hear us on Books with Betsy
New collection of Harper Lee’s previously unpublished short stories coming this fall
This day-in-the-life of an audiobook narrator is great (and they get paid by the finished hour - does this apply to Meryl Streep?)
Kathryn Stockett’s first novel since The Help is coming this fall
Deep Cuts
The Dream Hotel
Sucker Punch
The River Has Roots
Ingrained
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Jeff and Rebecca get ready for Spring with March's It Book Knockout Round.
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With Rebecca out, Liberty Hardy joins Jeff on the occasion of the 500th episode of All the Books! They talk about being book podcasters and a host of other reading-related topics.
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All The Books!
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Come See us live at Powell’s on March 13th
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Jeff and Rebecca run though the nominees for the 2025 Academy Award for Best Adapted Screenplay and assign each of them a win probability. Please do not bet on these.
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Jeff and Rebecca digest a bunch of high-profile adaptation news which leads them to wonder about the prospects of a big-budget romantasy series ever coming to screens, some news around book bannings and censorship, talk about recent reading, and more.
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Come See us live at Powell's on March 13th
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Hulu cans the ACOTAR adaptation
STARZ to adapt All Fours
Matt! Damon! Is! Odysseus!
Nimona creator N.D. Stevenson announces new book
LA Times Book Prize finalists
Indiana cuts Dolly Parton’s Imagination Library from budget
Iowa rushes to advance a bill that would criminalize librarianship
Talk to Me by Rich Benjamin
Stone Yard Devotional by Charlotte Wood
Soft Core by Brittany Newell
Calling In
Back After This by Linda Holmes
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Jeff and Rebecca talk about authors they think would most benefit from (or they would just personally like to see have) a signal adaptation.
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This is a preview of our Patreon-only discussion of Shigehiro Oishi's Life in Three Dimensions.
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First up, Jeff offers his remembrances of reading Tom Robbins. Then, Jeff and Rebecca talk about the hardcover dominance of the Big 5, the first landmark AI fair use case, recent reading, and more.
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R.I.P. Tom Robbins
Thomson Reuters wins first big AI copyright case in the US
Big Five retained hold on hardcover bestsellers in 2024 (let’s talk about some highlights from the print edition too)
Laura McGrath dives into publishing’s diversity data
Barbara Kinsolver funds rehab center with profits from Demon Copperhead
Margaret Atwood to publish memoir “of sorts” this fall
Turns out graphic novels are good for kids’ reading habits
John Lithgow to play Dumbledore in HBO Harry Potter series
Sendak/King team-up
Stone Yard Devotional by Charlotte Wood
On Tyranny
Bibliophobia by Sarah Chihaya
How to Share an Egg by Bonny Reichart
Raising Hare by Chloe Dalton
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Jeff and Rebecca are joined by romance expert Jessica Pryde to talk about romantasy, current trends in romance, category romance, navigating commercial romance covers, and much more.
Jessica co-hosts Book Riot's When in Romance. You can also find her exclamations about books and internet ridiculousness on BlueSky (JessIsReading) and instagram/threads (jess_is_reading).
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Jennifer Roberson
That Time I Got Drunk and Saved a Demon by Kimberly Lemming
Lights Out by Navessa Allen
The Kiss Countdown by Etta Easton
I Think I Like "Cozy" Dark Romance
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Jeff is back with his quarterly pile of recent book deal announcements to bounce off Rebecca. One of our favorite recurring episodes.
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Jeff and Rebecca spend more time than they would like in legal-land before talking about how everybody hates blurbs, recent reading, and other book news. Then, Brenna Connor of Circana joins Jeff to talk about 2024 book sales highlights and lowlights before looking ahead to 2025.
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First Edition
Shout-out to Feedspot for featuring us as #5 in the top 100 book podcasts on the planet
Scarlett Pavlovich sues Neil Gaiman and Amanda Palmer for rape & human trafficking and Netflix adaptation of Sandman to end after second season
Man accused of attacking Salman Rushdie to go to trial
Big 5 and Authors Guild sue Idaho over book banning law
Simon & Schuster’s flagship imprint won’t require blurbs and Rebecca Makkai essay in the NYT
Dystopian novels are on the rise again after the inauguration
On the Hippie Trail
The Loves of My Life
Life in Three Dimensions
Tilt
Bibliophobia by Sarah Chihaya
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Jeff and Rebecca consider ten contenders to be the It Book of the Month.
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Jeff and Rebecca discuss the new novel by the 2024 Nobel Laureate in Literature, Han Kang.
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Jeff and Rebecca talk about Dark Horse parting ways with Neil Gaiman, get off some hot takes about bookish social media, go through the ins-and-outs of ebooks coming to Bookshop.org, and more.
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The Book Riot Podcast Patreon
Bookshop.org’s Ebook Launch & Reading 25 Minutes a Day in 2025 with Gretchen Rubin episode of First Edition
Dark Horse Comics drops Neil Gaiman
Bookshop.org launches ebook sales
NYT’s coverage accidentally indicts how bad the old indie ebook options are
Authors Guild introduces “Human Authored” certification
New! Dan! Brown!
Hero of the week: Octavia’s Bookshelf
Defy by Sunita Sah
Y2K by Colette Shade
We Do Not Part by Han Kang
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Jeff and Rebecca talk about a bunch of early-ish career writers to keep your eye on.
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