Liberty Hardy joins Jeff to talk about hosting 500 episodes of All The Books! and a host of other reading-related topics.

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All The Books!

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Rebecca Romney joins Jeff to talk about her new book, Jane Austen's Bookshelf. They talk about personal book collecting, rediscovering literary history for yourself, a few of the writers Austen admired, and more. Jane Austen's Bookshelf is out now.

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Jane Austen's Bookshelf by Rebecca Romney

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The Honey & Wax Book Collecting Contest

Type Punch Matrix (Romney's Rare Book Company)

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Sarah Chihaya joins Jeff to talk about her new memoir, Bibliophobia. They talk life-ruining books, the enormous weight of all the books that are out there and how we cannot read them all, and other less-talked about parts of the reading life.

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Bibliophobia by Sarah Chihaya

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Jeff talks to Professor Shigehiro Oishi about his new book, Life in Three Dimensions: How Curiosity, Exploration, and Experience Make a Fuller, Better Life.

Books and reading play a central role in the book, both as examples but also as avenues towards living a psychologically rich life. I really enjoyed this book and this conversation.

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John Warner joins Jeff to talk about his new book, More Than Words: How to Think About Writing in the Age of AI. We talk about the teaching of writing, what we might want to save for humans, what kinds of things LLMs expose about how we think about writing, and what the present and future of living with AI could be.

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More Than Words by John Warner

The Biblioracle Recommends Newsletter

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Bookshop.org Founder Andy Hunter joins Jeff to talk about Bookshop now offering ebooks. Then, Gretchen Rubin, author of The Happiness Project, comes on to talk about her bookish reading challenge: read for 25 in '25.

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Bookshop.org Now Sells Ebooks

Gretchen Rubin's 25 in '25 Challenge

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Jeff uses Susie Dumond's piece for Book Riot about 2025 predictions as a framework for taking stock of where we are and what the year may hold for publishing and reading.

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Book Trend Predictions for 2025

Bed and Break-Up by Susie Dumond

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Jeff talks to Nnedi Okorafor about her life as a reader. Her new book, Death of the Author, is out now.

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Jeff is joined by Adam Vitcavage of Debutiful to talk about covering debuts, new authors, and all that entails.

Debutiful (website)

Debutiful (podcast)

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This was my favorite 2024 episode of First Edition, so I thought I'd repost it for you this holiday week. Join me to explore the reading life of U.S. National Poet Laureate Ada Limón.

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You Are Here: Poetry in the Natural World, edited by Ada Limón

In Praise of Mystery by Ada Limón, illustrated by Peter Sis.

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