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Highlights include an October release format shift for Marc Maron’s WTF podcast becoming the book Waiting for the Punch: Words to Live by, described as both funny and powerful. The editor’s desk explains the selection process for fall lists, limited to major upcoming titles and debuts curated by section editors, while acknowledging books reviewed later when galleys arrive too late.","Featuring 446 Industry-First Reviews of Fiction, Nonfiction and Children's & Teen  \nKIRKUS  \nVOL. LXXXV, NO. 16 | 15 AUGUST 2017  \nREVIEWS  \nIn October, comedian Marc Maron's WTF podcast becomes a book, Waiting for the Punch: Words to Live by from the WTF Podcast, a funny and powerful collection of interviews about what it means to be human. 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