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Jeff talks to Amal El-Mohtar about This is How You Lose the Time War getting one of greatest bookish gifts ever bestowed by the internet before talking about her new book, The River Has Roots.
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The Book Riot Podcast Live at Powell's on March 13th
This is How You Lose the Time War by Amal El-Mohtar & Max Gladstone
The River Has Roots by Amal El-Mohtar
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Scaachi Koul joins Jeff to talk about her new book, Sucker Punch with a new little format for First Edition called "10 Notecards With..." Jeff has picked out 10 things from the new book — words, ideas, stories, etc. — written them on notecards, and then has Saachi pick them at random (at least at the start order). Turned out to be a lot of fun, so expect to hear more of these.
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The Book Riot Podcast Live at Powell's on March 13th
Sucker Punch by Scaachi Koul
One Day We'll All Be Dead and None of This Will Matter by Scaachi Koul
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Liberty Hardy joins Jeff to talk about hosting 500 episodes of All The Books! and a host of other reading-related topics.
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All The Books!
Liberty Hardy on Instagram
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Rebecca Romney joins Jeff to talk about her new book, Jane Austen's Bookshelf. They talk about personal book collecting, rediscovering literary history for yourself, a few of the writers Austen admired, and more. Jane Austen's Bookshelf is out now.
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Jane Austen's Bookshelf by Rebecca Romney
Rebecca Romney on Instagram
The Honey & Wax Book Collecting Contest
Type Punch Matrix (Romney's Rare Book Company)
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Sarah Chihaya joins Jeff to talk about her new memoir, Bibliophobia. They talk life-ruining books, the enormous weight of all the books that are out there and how we cannot read them all, and other less-talked about parts of the reading life.
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Bibliophobia by Sarah Chihaya
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Jeff talks to Professor Shigehiro Oishi about his new book, Life in Three Dimensions: How Curiosity, Exploration, and Experience Make a Fuller, Better Life.
Books and reading play a central role in the book, both as examples but also as avenues towards living a psychologically rich life. I really enjoyed this book and this conversation.
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John Warner joins Jeff to talk about his new book, More Than Words: How to Think About Writing in the Age of AI. We talk about the teaching of writing, what we might want to save for humans, what kinds of things LLMs expose about how we think about writing, and what the present and future of living with AI could be.
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More Than Words by John Warner
The Biblioracle Recommends Newsletter
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Bookshop.org Founder Andy Hunter joins Jeff to talk about Bookshop now offering ebooks. Then, Gretchen Rubin, author of The Happiness Project, comes on to talk about her bookish reading challenge: read for 25 in '25.
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Bookshop.org Now Sells Ebooks
Gretchen Rubin's 25 in '25 Challenge
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Jeff uses Susie Dumond's piece for Book Riot about 2025 predictions as a framework for taking stock of where we are and what the year may hold for publishing and reading.
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Book Trend Predictions for 2025
Bed and Break-Up by Susie Dumond
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Jeff talks to Nnedi Okorafor about her life as a reader. Her new book, Death of the Author, is out now.
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Jeff is joined by Adam Vitcavage of Debutiful to talk about covering debuts, new authors, and all that entails.
Discussed in this episode:
Debutiful (website)
Debutiful (podcast)
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This was my favorite 2024 episode of First Edition, so I thought I'd repost it for you this holiday week. Join me to explore the reading life of U.S. National Poet Laureate Ada Limón.
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You Are Here: Poetry in the Natural World, edited by Ada Limón
In Praise of Mystery by Ada Limón, illustrated by Peter Sis.
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Book Riot's Sharifah Williams joins Jeff to talk about her piece, "The Books Won't Save Us."
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The Books Won't Save Us by Sharifah Williams
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A couple of segments here ported over from The Book Riot Podcast. First, Brooke Nagler tells us what it's like to break into the world of literary agenting. Then, Franklin Leonard and Randy Winston talk about their project, The Black List.
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The Book Group
The Black List
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Book Riot editor Danika Ellis joins Jeff to talk about how she tracks bestsellers for Book Riot, how growing up online was sort of great, and what we see (or don't) when we read.
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Discussed in this episode:
The Best-Selling Books of the Week
The Most Read Books on Goodreads This Week
Books Aren't Mental Movies: You're Missing the Best Part of Reading
I'm Glad I Grew Up Online
Aphantasia Self-Test
Everything2
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An audio version of a post I wrote for Book Riot recently, The 10 Most Interesting Questions in the World of Books and Reading.
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This episode is from our old podcast series Annotated, and it seemed fitting to bring it out of the archive this election season. In this episode: A woman with no prior political experience decides to run for city commission in her small college town. So she goes to the library and checks out a book called How to Win a Local Election. And she wins. This is her story and the story of the book that helped her win.
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While I am out on vacation, I am bringing something out from the vault. I have done a couple of "Reading Life" episodes here on First Edition with Adam Limon and James McBride, and that format got started as its own, sadly ended, podcast series: Reading Lives. While I was doing that show, I got a bunch of requests for my own episode, which I tried recording as a solo act. So here is that episode, about my own life as a reader. Back with new episodes starting at the end of August.
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Jeff is joined by Brenna Connor, Director & Industry Analyst for U.S. books sales for Circana. She has the goods: what is selling, what is trending, how retailers are doing, and much more. I learned a TON, and I bet you will too.
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In this episode of First Edition, the reading life of U.S. National Poet Laureate Ada Limón.
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Discussed in this episode:
You Are Here: Poetry in the Natural World, edited by Ada Limón
In Praise of Mystery by Ada Limón, illustrated by Peter Sis.
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