Missing Pages Season 2 coming October 23
Book bans are on the rise across America. With the rise of social media, book publishers are losing their power as the industry gatekeepers. More and more celebrities and influencers are publishing books with ghostwriters. Writing communities are splintering because members are at cross purposes about their mission. An all-new season of the investigative podcast hosted by world-renowned literary critic and publishing insider Bethanne Patrick. Season 2 of Missing Pages premieres on October 23rd.
Book bans are on the rise across America. With the rise of social media, book publishers are losing their power as the industry gatekeepers. More and more celebrities and influencers are publishing books with ghostwriters. Writing communities are splintering because members are at cross purposes about their mission. An all-new season of the investigative podcast hosted by world-renowned literary critic and publishing insider Bethanne Patrick. Season 2 of Missing Pages premieres on October 23rd.
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Bethanne Patrick: The publishing industry is a system. And in season 2 of Missing Pages, we’ll take a look at what happens when an old system faces new challenges.
Elizabeth Minkel: This is what happens when you involve money.
Laura Miller: She really kind of reached her apotheosis with BookTok.
Louis Bayard: I think what Hache did was he brought the fiction then back into his own life.
Bethanne: I'm Bethanne Patrick, literary critic, writer, and your host of season 2 of the Missing Pages podcast, the award-winning series praised by the Washington Post and The Guardian for giving you a ring-side seat to some of the juiciest conflicts in the book world.
Jason Pinshower: Books are mirrors into people's experiences.
Maia Kobabe: I don’t think my book is for everyone. But for the people who need it, it could be a lifeline.
Bethanne: In season two, we’re turning up the dial. We’ll dig into these stories with industry insiders, and talk to authors like Jodi Picoult for their first hand experiences.
Jodi Picoult: You can childproof your world, but you can't world proof your child.
Bethanne: People are getting scammed.
Lisa Page: The term is academic fraud.
Bethanne: Ghosts are coming out of the woodwork.
Dan Gerstein: The Bible was ghost written, we like to joke. It was the Holy Ghost [who] was behind it.
Bethanne: Book banning is surging
MSNBC News: Teachers can get fired for reading to fifth grade students based on a single parent.
Bethanne: And we’re at the center of it all.
Louis Bayard: It's so frustrating that he's not around for us to shake him by the lapels and say, “What was going on there?”
TikTok: I’m sorry but Colleen Hoover has officially lost it.
Jodi Picoult: If you are found with a book that has been objected to by the Florida Department of Education, you face being charged with a third degree felony, losing your teaching license, and being fined $5,000.
Bethanne: It’s time we find these Missing Pages and return them to their stories. Season 2 begins on October 23. Subscribe wherever you listen to podcasts.
