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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

July 31, 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:

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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