Pizza, Books, and Spreadsheets

This week, Jeff and Rebecca talk about 30 years of the Book It program, average consumer spending on books, The Fault in Our Stars getting banned, new books, and much more. This week's episode is sponsored by As Long as You Love Me by Anna Guirre, Love is the Drug by Alya Dawn Johnson, and Squarespace. You can subscribe to the podcast in iTunes (click here) or via RSS (link here). You can also download a free dedicated app for iOS or for Android. Links discussed in the show: Spending & employment related to books and other media Canadian version of VIDA shows gender gap in literary reviews Riverside CA bans Fault In Our Stars from middle school libraries BookIt Alumni program Jonathan Franzen biography coming Mary-Louise Parker book deal Finalists for first Kirkus Reviews prizes   New books discussed in the show: Belzhar by Meg Wolitzer Not That Kind of Girl by Lena Dunham How We Got to Now by Steven Johnson Internal Medicine: A Doctor’s Stories by Terrence Holt You’re My Favorite Client by Mike Monteiro ____________________________ If you like the Book Riot podcast, we think you'll also like our Reading Lives podcast: interviews with interesting people about their lives in books. The most recent episode is with Chuck Wendig. Listen here. Untitled

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