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This week, Jeff and Rebecca put the discussion of gaming the NYT bestseller list to bed, note Amazon’s policing of reviews of What Happened, shrug their shoulder over the Man Booker shortlist, and much more.

 

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The Golden House by Salman Rushdie

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The Book of Separation by Tova Miris

 

Links discussed in this episode:

Lani Sarem is still defending her gaming of the NYT bestseller list

Amazon defends deleting 1-star reviews of HRC’s book

New documentary film about the NYPL

5 previously unpublished Kurt Vonnegut stories coming 

Casey Affleck to star in STONER, which is just very wrong

Kirkus has added diversity/identification tagging to reviews