Ep. 61 The Publicizing of Books with Joseph Papa
Our guest today is Joseph Papa, author (Elizabeth Taylor, A Passion for Life), activist, and former book publicist at Harper Collins. Joseph brings his years of experience to the show to explain how book publicity works, what it is like working with celebrity authors, and how he got into the publishing industry. We also discuss Kris Jenner's reading taste, audiobook speed, Scientology, and so much more. Trust us, this episode has it all!
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Everything we talk about on today’s episode can be found below in the show notes and on Bookshop.org and Amazon
Elizabeth Taylor, A Passion for Life by Joseph Papa
Gone with the Wind by Margaret Mitchell
Margaret Mitchell's Gone with the Wind by Ellen F. Brown
How I Got This Way by Regis Philbin
Scream by Tama Janowitz
Slaves of New York by Tama Janowitz
Make 'Em Laugh by Debbie Reynolds
The Perfect Letter by Chris Harrison
Everything I Never Told You by Celeste Ng
Homegoing by Yaa Gyasi
Station Eleven by Emily St. John Mandel
Hunger by Roxane Gay
Good and Mad by Rebecca Traister
Eloquent Rage by Brittney Cooper
The Goldfinch by Donna Tartt
Not The Kind of Girl by Lena Dunham
Proof of Heaven by Eben Alexander
Atonement by Ian McEwan
Off-White by Laurie Gunst
Blood in the Water by Heather Ann Thompson
Where Men Win Glory by John Krakauer
Under the Banner of Heaven by John Krakauer
Never Let Me Go by Kazuo Ishiguro
The History of Love by Nicole Krauss
The Lover's Dictionary by David Levithan
The Marriage Plot by Jeffrey Eugenides
The Corrections by Jonathan Franzen
Freedom by Jonathan Franzen
Less by Andrew Sean Greer
Ladies Who Punch by Ramin Setoodeh
Familiar Spirits by Alison Lurie
The Truths We Hold by Kamala Harris
Shortest Way Home by Pete Buttigieg
Becoming by Michelle Obama
Going Clear by Lawrence Wright
God Save Texas by Lawrence Wright
Inside Scientology by Janet Reitman
People Who Eat Darkness by Richard Lloyd Parry
How Long 'Til Black Future Month by N. K. Jemisin
Middlesex by Jeffrey Eugenides
A Thousand Lives by Julia Scheeres
Jesus Land by Julia Scheeres
The Mother of Black Hollywood by Jenifer Lewis
The Last Black Unicorn by Tiffany Haddish
Tinderbox by Robert W. Fieseler
Say Nothing by Patrick Radden Keefe
The Selected Poems of Nikki Giovanni by Nikki Giovanni
Love Sex Again by Lauren Streicher
Columbine by Dave Cullen
Parkland by Dave Cullen
The Library Book by Susan Orlean
James and the Giant Peach by Roald Dahl
Their Eyes Were Watching God by Zora Neale Hurston
Death of a Salesman by Aurthur Miller
The Scarlet Letter by Nathaniel Hawthorne
Killers of the Flower Moon by David Grann
The Horse Whisperer by Nicholas Evans
Search Party (TBS)
The Bachelor (ABC)
The View (ABC)
Today Show (NBC)
Good Morning America (ABC)
Ellen (Warner Brothers Studios)
The Talk (CBS)
The Golden Girls (NBC)
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Orphan Black (BBC)
Skylight Books (Los Angeles, CA)
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The Horse Whisperer (Robert Redford, 1998)
The Shining (Stanley Kubrick, 1980)
A Clockwork Orange (Stanley Kubrick, 1972)
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