• The Week in Books LIVE: George R.R. Martin Buys a Railway, and Other Book News

    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:

    George R. R. Martin is buying a historic New Mexico railway

    J. K. Rowling: cancelled, charitable, or both?

    The best reviewed books of the week.

    Eels: as delicious as they are mysterious

    Joyce Carol Oates wins France’s richest book prize

    Katie watches The West Wing for the first time

    The Bookstore at the End of the World


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    The Virtual Book Channel
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