S12:Ep254 - The Book Riot Podcast with guest Rebecca Schinsky + Western Book Recs

2025-03-26

Our website - www.perksofbeingabooklover.com.Instagram - @perksofbeingabookloverpodFacebook - Perks of Being a Book Lover.To send us a message go to our website and click the Contact button. You can find Rebecca Schinsky on IG @rebeccaschinsky and Book Riot at www.bookriot.com 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, new...

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To send us a message go to our website and click the Contact button.

You can find Rebecca Schinsky on IG @rebeccaschinsky and Book Riot at www.bookriot.com

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.

I have long been a listener of this podcast and love it because ….I am a book nerd through and through and this podcast gives me 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