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The Week in Books LIVE: Gremlins, Ghosts, and Isaac Asimov the Sex Pest

With Book Marks Editors Dan Sheehan and Katie Yee

June 26, 2020

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:

· Upcoming novels from George R. R. Martin and Don DeLillo

· The ghost in Katie’s old apartment

· The Best Reviewed Books of the Week

· Book Marks Awards?

· The shortlist for the £10,000 James Tait Prize

· Portlandia vs. The Portland Trail Blazers

· Isaac Asimov the sex pest

· The estate of Sir Arthur Conan Doyle is suing Netflix

· Support these Black-owned indie bookstores

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