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You Need Three for a Parade
Episode 412
Jeff and Rebecca talk about a call for help and a weird stock purchase at The Strand, more encouraging hires in publishing, an ugly fight at B&N goes…
5 years, 4 months ago
JACK by Marilynne Robinson
Episode 411
Jeff and Rebecca discuss Jack by Marilynne Robinson. This episode is sponsored by: This episode is sponsored by Book Trip, by C.J. Duarte, Penguin Ra…
5 years, 4 months ago
Gird Your Whatevers
Episode 410
Jeff and Rebecca mostly respond to listener ideas for bonus episodes. Some of it is even about books. This episode is sponsored by: This episode is s…
5 years, 4 months ago
Adaptation Nation: Little Fires Everywhere, High Fidelity, and Enola Holmes
Episode 409
Jeff and Rebecca discuss the recent adaptations of Little Fires Everywhere, High Fidelity, and Enola Holmes. This episode is sponsored by: This episo…
5 years, 4 months ago
Word of Mouth for Robots
Episode 408
Jeff and Rebecca ask for ideas for post-election episode topics, go over what is going on with book sales, float the idea of making author “retiremen…
5 years, 4 months ago
(Re)Introducing Ourselves to Louise Glück
Episode 407
Jeff and Rebecca talk about the life and work of 2020 Nobel Laureate Louise Glück, plus an extended discussion of her 1993 poem, “Vespers.” This epis…
5 years, 4 months ago
30 Dirty Spoons
Episode 406
Jeff and Rebecca tease their special 2020 Nobel Prize episode, look at the National Book Award longlist, consider an interesting new position at Simo…
5 years, 4 months ago
Half Baked Ideas, Volume 2
Episode 405
Jeff and Rebecca pitch ideas that are not quite ready for prime-time. This episode is sponsored by Grand Central Publishing and Iris Johansen’s CHAOS…
5 years, 4 months ago
A Mighty Hrrumpff
Episode 404
Jeff and Rebecca talk about Amazon’s apparent discount decline, a new Executive Editor at Random House, another major James Patterson donation, and m…
5 years, 4 months ago
It Book: TRANSCENDENT KINGDOM by Yaa Gyasi
Episode 403
Liberty Hardy of All the Books! and Rincey Abrams of Read or Dead join Jeff to talk about Transcendent Kingdom by Yaa Gyasi. THIS EPISODE IS SPONSORE…
5 years, 5 months ago