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.   This episode is sponsored by: The Golden House by Salman Rushdie Lit Chat 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bestseller list  Amazon defends deleting 1-star reviews of HRC’s book New documentary film about the NYPL 5 previously unpublished Kurt Vonnegut stories coming  Casey Affleck to star in STONER, which is just very wrong  Kirkus has added diversity/identification tagging to reviews See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

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