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Book Riot - The Podcast

What Are The 10 Most Interesting Questions in the World of Books and Reading?

Book Riot - The Podcast

Riot New Media Group, Inc

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4.3965 Ratings

🗓️ 9 October 2024

⏱️ 65 minutes

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Summary

Jeff and Rebecca go through Jeff's recent piece, The 10 Most Interesting Questions in the World of Books and Reading? Subscribe to the podcast via RSS, Apple Podcasts, and Spotify. For more industry news, sign up for our Today in Books daily newsletter! Check out the Book Riot Podcast Book Page on Thriftbooks! The Book Riot Podcast Patreon This content contains affiliate links. When you buy through these links, we may earn an affiliate commission. Discussed in this episode: The 10 Most Interesting Questions in the World of Books and Reading? Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0

Thoughtful driving tips from Eso, number three.

0:02.8

This is Kiran. He's doing 70 on the motorway, on his way to a cheeky

0:08.4

spa appointment, though his diaries as he's visiting a client.

0:12.8

Naughty Kiran, lowering his speed to 60 could save him up to 9% in fuel on the journey.

0:19.8

Enjoy that hot stone massage, Kiran.

0:22.4

Slowing down a little.

0:24.0

This is the Book Right Podcast, I'm Jeff O'Neil.

0:26.0

And I'm Rebecca Schinsky.

0:28.0

And today we are talking about the 10 most interesting questions in the world of books and reading according to let's see who's the expert there.

0:36.4

Oh Jeff O'Neill!

0:37.4

You might have heard of him before so I wrote this at the end of August four book rights deep dive

0:44.5

newsletter and that's where the editors have a chance to let's not step out of but

0:50.3

maybe lean into the Hurley-Burdley world of books and reading for a little bit longer.

0:54.4

We do so much editing and talking and whatever that we have, the editors have less time to do a, you know,

1:01.0

kind of just a writing task than we used to. Yeah. And that's what's going on here. It's kind of the new version of what our original mandate for content was at Book Riot, which was just right about what you're interested in and passionate about and we have you

1:14.4

know we're doing a little more editorial direction 13 years in than we did back then but the

1:18.8

deep dive is our space to be like what is it that I'm thinking about like it contains

1:22.4

multitudes this is where

1:24.1

last summer I re-read the bridges of Madison County and wrote about it 30 years in but you can

1:28.8

also get philosophical about the state of the industry or that it's been 20 years since practical magic came out or whatever you want to do.

1:35.6

Yeah, and so I guess I assigned myself the task of writing about the 10 most interesting questions in the world of books and reading.

1:42.8

I don't think any of these will be shocking to listeners of the book, right, podcast, things

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