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Submit ReviewJeff and Rebecca are traveling for work this week, so we present the inaugural episode of First Edition to tide you over. We’ll be back next week with a regular episode.
In the first section, Jeff and Rebecca play a game of “knockout” to figure out what the “it” book of April might be. In the second section, Yahdon Israel, Senior Editor at Simon & Schuster, comes on to talk about putting books into the world. And in section three, Sarah Bakewell and Jeff talk about humanism on the occasion of the publication of her new book, Humanly Possible.
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Wonder Boy by Angel Au-Yeung and David Jeans
Camp Zero by Michelle Min Sterling
Romantic Comedy by Curtis Sittenfeld
You Could Make This Place Beautiful by Maggie Smith
Small Mercies by Dennis Lehane
In the Lives of Puppets by T.J. Klune
A Living Remedy by Nicole Chung
House of Cotton by Monica Brashears
Yahdon Israel’s Advance Readers Club
Humanly Possible by Sarah Bakewell
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Jeff and Rebecca note a coming 10 years of discourse, are unimpressed by the bestselling books of the year so far, and chew on a big nothingburger about Obama’s reading list.
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Update: the Harry Potter reboot is coming to HBO, and….it will run for 10 years
And Casey Bloys is already dodging the issue
first-quarter-bestsellers.html">First quarter bestsellers
The “secret” behind how Obama’s reading lists get made
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Jeff and Rebecca talk about audiobooks for quite a bit longer than they thought plus some other things.
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Brandon Sanderson has entered the chat re: Audible taking too big of a cut from indie authors
audiobooks-without-audible-the-hard-lessons-i-ve-learned-routing-around-amazon.html">Cory Doctorow weighs in
House of Cotton by Monica Brashears
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Jeff and Rebecca tease First Edition a little bit more, wind up the case of the manuscript thief, continue to have more things to say about LLMs, are tentatively interested in Questlove’s new imprint, consider Jeff’s recent return to #booktwitter, and much more.
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bernardini-unpublished-manuscripts-deported.html">Bernardini gets time served & will be deported
Fun with AI: LibraryThing introduces a search tool for when you can’t remember a title
books-publishing-imprint.html">Questlove is starting an imprint
Wired’s Brandon Sanderson profile. And then Sanderson’s response. And then Esquire’s counter (?) profile.
The Real Work by Adam Gopnik
Bandit Queens by Parini Shroff
Biography of X by Catherine Lacey
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Jeff and Rebecca talk about a new podcast project (!), a record year for book bannings, more ChatGPT things (not all of them bad!), BookTok influencer pay, and much more.
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ALA reports attempted book bans nearly doubled in 2022 over 2021 022
A new U.S. House resolution will further ignite book bans
coalition-wants-s-s-to-not-distribute-the-real-aids-epidemic.ht">Coalition urges S & S not to distribute Skyhorse title by AIDS denialist
ChatGPT listed as author on more than 200 books now available on Amazon
Vox does the deep dive on BookTok authenticity
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Jeff and Rebecca talk about the Chat-GTP4's weak performance on AP English Exams, Leigh Bardugo getting that bag, why modern adults seem befuddled by time, recent reading, and more.
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Shout-out to Rioter Susie Dumond, finalist for a Lambda Literary award for best lesbian romance
The Trans Rights Readathon is a thing, March 20-27
Manuscript thief pleads guilty
Leigh Bardugo’s 8-figure Macmillan deal
Birnham Wood by Eleanor Catton
Hello Beautiful by Ann Napolitano
Your Driver is Waiting by Priya Guns
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Jeff and Rebecca talk about Noam Chomsky on AI, women publishing more books than men, a celebrity bookstore acquisition, TikTok getting into publishing, and more.
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chomsky-chatgpt-ai.html">Worth a read: Noam Chomsky isn’t worried about ChatGPT replacing writers/artists
Women are publishing more books than men, and it’s good for business
Chip Gaines buys Larry McMurtry’s Texas bookstore
ByteDance hiring an acquisition editor!
magazine.co.uk/culture/article/booktok-tiktok-books-community/amp">A take on TikTok via listener Alex
The English Understand Wool by Helen DeWitt
Dyscalculia by Chamonghne Felix
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Jeff and Rebecca continue to mull ChatGPT’s potential to change reading, assess another change to “classic” texts, recount recent reading, and more.
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Book Riot managing editor Vanessa Diaz joins Jeff to talk about the officially-ratified HarperCollins contract, ChatGPT and ebook “authorship,” bookstore rewards programs, cleaning up Roald Dahl, and more.
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harpercollins-ratifies-contract-with-employee-union-we-are-excited-to-move-forward-together.html">HC union ratifies contract
dahl-children-books-offensive-b2284965.html">Roald Dahl updated to have more inclusive language, and it’s a whole Thing
Barnes & Noble’s new membership program
Stone Blind by Natalie Haynes
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Jeff and Rebecca talk about the end of the HarperCollins strike, possible homes for Simon & Schuster, a real mess at Indigo, recent reading, and more.
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collins-strike-tentative-agreement.html">HarperCollins & union reach tentative agreement
is-the-sale-of-simon-schuster-heating-up.html">Simon & Schuster is back on the market
s-s-has-record-year.html">…and they had a banner year
catapult-to-shutter-online-magazine-writing-classes.html">Catapult shuttering online magazine & writing classes to focus on publishing program
Indigo experiencing some sort of online sales meltdown:
The Half-Known World by Pico Iyer
Victory City by Salman Rushdie
Reading the Glass by Eliot Rappaport
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