56.5 - Bookstores Against Borders and Book News

56.5 - Bookstores Against Borders and Book News

This week's mini has some themed book news. What's an embargo? You're about to find out. Big companies bum us out, but we keep punching up until we reach the obvious ending. And Corinne travelled all the way to Madison, Wi to talk with Gretchen at A Room of One's Own Books about Bookstores Against Borders and how bookstores make your community.

This week's mini has some themed book news.

  • What's an embargo? You're about to find out.

  • Big companies bum us out, but we keep punching up until we reach the obvious ending.

  • And Corinne traveled all the way to Madison, Wi to talk with Gretchen at A Room of One's Own Books about Bookstores Against Borders and how bookstores make your community.

We lied in the episode and said that next week we'd be reading Notes of a Crocodile by Qiu Miaojin, which we'll actually be reading in a couple more weeks. NEXT week we'll be discussing Trick Mirror by Jia Tolentino.

Sources:

After Tor Experiment, Macmillan Expands Embargo on Library E-Books

What happens when you give a monopoly a dystopian text: They learn how to be badder

Gretchen’s Book Recommendations

Gideon the Ninth by Tamsyn Muir

On Earth We’re Briefly Gorgeous by Ocean Vuong

57 - Trick Mirror

57 - Trick Mirror

56 - The Book of X

56 - The Book of X