Apple launches new book club dubbed ‘Strombo’s Lit’

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Bookworms in the US, UK, Canada, and Australia now may check out Apple’s new book club, curated by Apple Music personality George “Strombo” Stroumboulopoulos.

Stroumboulopoulos signed up with Apple in 2020 as an Apple Music Hits live radio broadcaster. He presents “Strombo,” a program that links fans to musical performers.

On Tuesday, he announced the start of “Strombo’s Lit” on his program and Twitter.

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This is far from Strobo’s first metaphorical rodeo, however. For more than a decade, he presented a Canadian talk programme where he would interview up to five writers a week. Notable writers included Maya Angelou, Gore Vidal, and Cornel West.

“Strombo’s Lit” won’t have a definite wheelhouse, either. Instead, the presenter has a broad variety of interests, remarking, “I get as much out of Bruce Lee and Howard Zinn as I do out of Stephen King and Eldridge Cleaver and Kathy Acker.”

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“If we want a better culture, we’ve got to understand each other a little bit better,” he says on the “Strombo’s Lit” tab of the Books app. “One of the ways we can achieve it is through reading each other’s tales.”

Apple is quick stress that “Strombo’s Lit” isn’t designed to replace the curated lists currently accessible in the Books app, TechCrunch points out.

The first book will be Neal Stephenson’s “Termination Shock”.

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