Season 12, Episode 254 The Book Riot podcast with guest Rebecca Schinsky
In this week’s episode, we chat with Rebecca Schinsky, who is chief of staff for Riot New Media Group and co-host of The Book Riot podcast. Book Riot is the largest independent editorial book site in North America and book lovers can find all kinds of interesting stuff there, such as numerous podcasts, newsletters, and articles about different genres.
Amy has long been a listener of this podcast and love it because ….she is a book nerd through and through and this podcast gives her the inside look at the world of publishing. If you enjoy learning about trends and want the inside scoop about how and why certain books make it to your eyeballs or just want to have your pulse on bookish news, this podcast is for you. Rebecca talks to us about what book trends have had the biggest impact on the industry over the last 15 years, what other goodies you can find at Book Riot.com, and why social media flattens the book options we see in our feeds.
And this week for our book recommendations section, we put on our 10 gallon hats and our chaps because we’re talking about westerns. Westerns became popular in the late 1800s and derived from the dime novels of the mid-19th century. Many of these stories were later turned into movies in the 1940s and 1950s, which is probably the way most people had exposure to them. Films like High Noon and Shane were based on western stories. There was a second resurgence of western films based on novels between the 1970s-90s such as The Unforgiven and The Outlaw Josey Wales. We offer westerns that are in the graphic novel genre, the horror genre, literary fiction, and middle grade.
Books Mentioned in this Episode:
1- The Personal Librarian by Marie Benedict and Victoria Christopher Murray
2- The Other Einstein by Marie Benedict
3- Harlem Rhapsody by Victoria Christopher Murray
4- Life in Three Dimensions by Shigehiro Oishi
5- Back After This by Linda Holmes
6- Wuthering Heights by Emily Bronte
7- Glass Town: The Imaginary World of the Brontes by Isabel Greenberg
8- The Helsinki Affair by Anna Pitoniak
9- Red Widow by Alma Katsu
10- A Five Star Read Recommended by Fellow Book Lover Beth @a_vet_nurse_and_her_books - The Game by Danny Dagan
11- Lonesome Dove by Larry McMurtry
12- True Grit by Charles Portis
13- The Searchers by Alan LeMay
14- The Searchers: The Making of an American Legend by Glenn Franke
15- Lone Women by Victor LaValle
16- Coyote Doggirl by Lisa Hanawalter
17- Four Treasures of the Sky by Jenny Tinghui Zhang
18- Whiskey When We're Dry by John Larison
19- The Sisters Brothers by Patrick deWitt
20- Pony by RJ Palacio
Media mentioned--
1- Heretic (Max, 2024)
2- Longlegs (Hulu, 2024)
3- True Grit (2010)
4- Deadwood (Max, 2004-2006)
5- The Searchers (1956)
6- The Sisters Brothers (2018)
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