• The Week in Books LIVE: #BlackoutBestsellerList, Practical Magic, and Animorphs 101

    With Book Marks Editors Dan Sheehan and Katie Yee

    Featuring the good news and the bad news from the week in books, the big titles everyone is talking about, the best reviewed books, adaptation news, and more… From Book Marks editors Dan Sheehan and Katie Yee.

    Discussed in this episode:

    Hachette UK standing behind J.K. Rowling despite worker protests over the author’s transphobic comments

    James McBride’s Deacon King Kong becoming the latest Oprah’s Book Club pick

    Amistad launching #BlackoutBestsellerList (which you can and should participate in through these Black-owned bookstores)

    Animorphs: what the hell is it?

    Celebrate 25 years of Practical Magic by making Katie’s midnight margaritas

    Tom Cruise’s The Last Samurai vs. Helen DeWitt’s The Last Samurai


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