
The It Books of April
04/02/25 • 45 min
Jeff and Rebecca consider contenders for the It Book of April, 2025.
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Jeff and Rebecca consider contenders for the It Book of April, 2025.
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Jeff is out this week reading on a beach, so we are sharing this rerun from the First Edition podcast in which Jeff talks to Stephen Graham Jones about his reading life. Stephen Graham Jones is the NYT bestselling author of thirty-five or so novels and collections, and there are some novellas and comic books in there as well. Most recent are Earthdivers and I Was a Teenage Slasher.
His new book, The Buffalo Hunter Hunter, is out now.
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National Book Critics Circle Winners, Censorship Cases on a Collision Course with the Supreme Court, and more of the week's book news
Jeff is back from vacation and joins Rebecca to talk NBCC winners, escalating legal challenges to book bans, Penguin Random House sales info, recent reading, and more.
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The biggest book censorship stories of the year so far
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