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Book Riot - The Podcast

Riot New Media Group, Inc

Arts, News Commentary, News, Books, Tv & Film

4.3 • 965 Ratings

🗓️ 17 February 2025

⏱️ 71 minutes

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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. Subscribe to the podcast via RSS, Apple Podcasts, and Spotify. Sign up for the Book Riot Podcast Newsletter and follow the show on Instagram and Bluesky. Get more industry news with our Today in Books daily newsletter. A new year means a new Read Harder Challenge! Join us as we make our way through 24 tasks meant to expand our reading horizons. Sign up at bookriot.com/readharder. This content contains affiliate links. When you buy through these links, we may earn an affiliate commission. Discussed in this Episode: The Book Riot Podcast Patreon The Book Riot Podcast Newsletter The Book Riot Podcast on Instagram 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 Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:28.5	slash AI for people. This is the bookwry podcast. I'm Jeff O'Neill. And I'm Rebecca Schinsky.
0:34.1	And I'm a thousand degrees below zero right now, Rebecca. It's a wintry, blustery kind of day here in
0:40.8	Portland, Oregon. I live in an old house that doesn't like the 30 degree below, it's not that's
0:47.2	much, but it's like 30 mile per hour winds and we're below wind chill and I won't be warm for a few days.
0:52.4	But it's okay. We're all fine. Kids are out of school.
0:54.5	They're having a good time. They love it. Whatever. We've had some winter not so Wonderland
0:58.7	stuff here as well. We had lots of snow that then had freezing rain on top of it. So we didn't get
1:04.1	any of the great, like, beautiful accumulation because the rain just melted everything. What we got was like, limbs coming down in the yard. I've got a friend who has three big holes in her roof right now.
1:13.2	I almost thought we might see her old friend Amanda Nelson on the pod today.
1:16.2	Yeah,
1:16.8	she was running around here this morning.
1:18.8	She's,
1:19.1	you know,
1:19.4	talking to homeowners insurance people right now.
1:22.5	But we have had some book riot alumni.
1:24.4	I bet Amanda does well cooped up in a house all day.
1:30.8	Ask me tomorrow.
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