• The Week in Books LIVE: Pickle Juice, the Booker Prize, and a Million-Dollar Short Story

    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.

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    Discussed in this episode:

    Reasons why New Zealand is good
    Katie defends the indefensible: pickle juice
    The Best Reviewed Books of the Week
    Katie and Dan don’t like Star Wars
    The Booker Prize longlist, Eisner Award winners, and Caine Prize winner
    Is there a Literary EGOT?
    The Remains of the Day and unlocking the repressed British psyche
    Issa Rae and Jordan Peele paying seven-figures for the film rights to a single short story
    31 movies based on short stories
    This indie bookseller will send you personalized recommendations from her stock of used books


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