The Book Riot Podcast, Episode #38: Don’t Bring Poetry to a Knife Fight
The Book Riot Podcast, Episode #38: Don’t Bring Poetry to a Knife Fight
This week, Jeff and Rebecca talk about wearable books, revisionist book awards, awards for noble librarians, a deadly literary dispute, new books, and much more. This week’s episode is sponsored by Squarespace and BookBub.
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Links discussed in the show:
Follow-up: Scribd taking aim at Amazon w/ Kindle Fire app
Bookslut introduces Daphne Awards (“The Corrections”) to celebrate the best books of 50 years ago
ALA approves Lemony Snicket Prize for Noble Librarians Faced with Adversity
New service books authors for book clubs at $750 fee
Wearable book lets you experience character’s emotions
Scorcese’s next film is a documentary about the NYRB
Russian man stabbed to death in argument about poetry vs. prose
New books discussed in the show:
Dept of Speculation by Jenny Offill
Silence Once Begun by Jesse Ball
My Life in Middlemarch by Rebecca Mead
Paperback: The Son by Philipp Meyer
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