Warning: We swear in this episode. Leigh Bardugo’s protagonist has to put up with some bulls***.
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Our sources for this episode
A breakdown of high fantasy and low fantasy from Book Riot: https://bookriot.com/high-fantasy-vs-low-fantasy/
Spotify boosts popular audiobooks: https://www.publishersweekly.com/pw/by-topic/industry-news/audio-books/article/94253-spotify-reports-exponential-audiobook-growth.html
As the publishing industry digests Spotify's audiobooks program, independent authors notice the terms have shifted: https://writerbeware.blog/2024/02/19/outrage-over-new-terms-of-use-at-findaway-voices-forces-change/
This sad but necessary story about what librarians have to put up with: https://www.schoollibraryjournal.com/story/School-and-Public-Librarians-describe-on-the-job-harassment-censorship
Very cool new literature prize: https://www.nytimes.com/2023/12/04/books/inside-literary-prize.html
A long-overdue congratulations to Hannah Bond, whom you can now read about in depth: https://www.nytimes.com/2023/10/14/books/hannah-crafts-biography-gregg-hecimovich.html
Celebrations: Ángela Ruiz Robles invented an early e-reader: https://www.nytimes.com/2023/11/10/obituaries/angela-ruiz-robles-overlooked.html
Read the books we talked about in this episode
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Harrow the Ninth: a devastating, dizzying book written in second person that Annie will love til her dying day: https://bookshop.org/a/55633/9781250313218
The Ninth House: dark academia meets gritty urban detective meets magic secret societies, it’s every bit as good as it sounds: https://bookshop.org/a/55633/9781250751362
Chapters
00:00 Intro
03:35 Corrections corner
06:37 Spotify boosts audiobooks, what’s it costing independent authors?
15:52 Librarians are still dealing with bulls***
19:29 A new literary prize for incarcerated people debuts
22:22 Celebrating two amazing women who never got their due
28:44 Annie is reading The Ninth House by Leigh Bardugo
35:28 Kali Koda – No, wait, it’s the outro
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