Mar 21, 2023 41 min

BookTok

from The LRB Podcast Hosted by The London Review of Books

With the future of TikTok increasingly uncertain in the US and other countries, Malin Hay talks to Tom about the app’s powerful reading-focused corner, BookTok: what it is, how it works, and the tropes which dominate its favourite genre, romance fiction. They also look at some recent emails from listeners. Find further reading on the episode page: https://lrb.me/booktokpod Sign up to our Close Readings podcast subscription: https://lrb.me/closereadingspod Get in touch with the podcasts team: [email protected]

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