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Full Up on Jonathans

This week, Jeff and Rebecca talk about a publisher trying the Year of Only Women challenge, books in barbershops, ToMo at Columbia, new books, and much more. This episode is sponsored by Scribd and You Can’t Escape by Nancy Bush.

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Links discussed in the show:

 

Follow-up: NC teacher who read gay-themed fairy tale resigns after protest

Alabama attorney gets barber shops to stock Books for Boys

Publisher will publish only women
Harper Lee’s letters fail to sell at auction

ToMo becomes first black author on Columbia’s Literature Humanities syllabus

College student wants to ban graphic novels

New books discussed in the show:

Summerlong by Dean Bakopoulos

Modern Romance by Aziz Ansari

Grey by E.L. James
Paperback: Broken Monsters

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