October 20, 2018

This week: Stephen Hawking warns of superhumans in his final book, a Brazilian presidential candidate benefits from fake news, how #MeToo influences the literary industry, the Man Booker Prize was announced, children’s mental health gets help from picture books, the creator of the Little Free Library has died, and Iceland’s book-giving tradition is under threat. All this, plus the New York Times and Publisher’s Weekly bestseller lists and the latest news from aois21, Literally This Week. aois21 audio would like your help! We are currently conducting surveys of listeners to several of our podcast series. Visit www.surveys.aois21.com or the homepage of each podcast to find the link. It will only take a couple minutes of your time and we will thank you with 21% off any purchase from the aois21 market and enter you for a chance to win a $25 Visa gift card. This episode is brought to you by Audible. Get access to over 180,000 audiobooks with your first month free. Visit www.audibletrial.com/aois21 and your first book is on us! This podcast is also brought to you by the Blue Ridge Writers 2018 Book and Arts Fair! Join us and 35 local authors on Saturday, October 27th at the CitySpace in Downtown Charlottesville, Va, for a day of readings, music, and fun. Visit www.BlueRidgeWriters.org or www.events.aois21.com for more information! It is also sponsored by Bookbyte. Sell your used textbooks or get new or used textbooks cheap. Visit Bookbyte today and save using our link https://bookbyte.pxf.io/aois21! Literally This Week is available on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, Stitcher Radio, Google Play, TuneIn, Spotify, Podomatic, and www.audio.aois21.com. You can support this podcast either by buying an ad through Advertisecast, or on the aois21 page on Patreon. For news during the week, follow @aois21 on Twitter. If there’s a story we missed, tweet to us with the #literallythisweek and we’ll check it out.