- 155
- Episodes
- 7
- Transcribed
- 91
- Ratings
- Daily
- Cadence
- 2015
- First episode
About Tea or Books?
Simon (Stuck in a Book) and Rachel (Book Snob) debate the difficult decisions of books and reading.
- Publisher
- Simon and Rachel
- Category
- arts
- Language
- en
- Explicit
- No
- First episode
- 8 Jun 2015
- Latest episode
- 25 Sept 2026
Latest episodes
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25 Sept 2026TRANSCRIPT
#154: Independent Publishers vs Big Name Publishers and Two Virginia Woolf Novels
16 Aug 2026TRANSCRIPT
#153: Do We Care If Writers Exaggerate? and When The Cranes Fly South vs Only About Love
28 Jul 2026TRANSCRIPT
#152: Novels about women’s home life vs work life, and The Professor’s House by Willa Cather vs The Things We Never Say by Elizabeth Strout
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#154: Independent Publishers vs Big Name Publishers and Two Virginia Woolf Novels
Published 25 Sept 2026 · Transcript excerpt
[…] And you can kind of I mean, obviously, you're not going to love absolutely everything they publish. But I always think every time I pick a book of theirs up, I read the back and I think, oh, this sounds really interesting. I either want to buy it straight away or I think oh yeah I'll definitely get to that at some point like all of them seem like things that are going to be intellectually stimulating and often introduce me to people I've never heard of and so I've really enjoyed watching them grow over the last few years and seeing more and more people pick up more translated books as a result and translators getting more of a recognition for the work that they do, which I think Fitzcarraldo has also done a lot of work to promote, which I've never seen the big publishing houses do. […]
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