All the Books! Podcast, Episode #23: New Releases for Oct. 13, 2015
This week, Liberty and Rebecca discuss Calf, Thirteen Ways of Looking, Mrs. Engels, and more new releases.
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Books discussed on the show:
Calf by Andrea Kleine
Thirteen Ways of Looking: Stories by Colum McCann
Mrs. Engels by Gavin McCrea
Ghostly: A Collection of Ghost Stories edited by Audrey Niffenegger
Twain’s End by Lynn Cullen
(Helen Keller in Love by Rosie Sultan)
Without You, There Is No Us: My Time with the Sons of North Korea’s Elite by Suki Kim
Mighty, Mighty by Wally Rudolph
Mermaids in Paradise by Lydia Millet
What we’re reading:
The Great & Calamitous Tale of Johan Thoms: How One Man Scorched the Twentieth Century But Didn’t Mean To by Ian Thornton
Upright Beasts: Stories by Lincoln Michel
More books out this week:
Part of Our Lives: A People’s History of the American Public Library by Wayne A. Wiegand
We That Are Left by Clare Clark
Boxes by Pascal Garnier (Author), Melanie Florence (Translator)
Juventud by Vanessa Blakeslee
Interlock: Art, Conspiracy, and the Shadow of Mark Lombardi by Patricia Goldstone
Boundless: Tracing Land and Dream in a New Northwest Passage by Kathleen Winter
Three Days in April by Edward Ashton
Drinking in America: Our Secret History by Susan Cheever
The Xenotext: Book I by Christian Bök
The Mystics of Mile End by Sigal Samuel
The Glacier by Jeff Wood
The Masked Truth by Kelly Armstrong
The Education of a Poker Player by James McManus
She Came from Beyond by Nadine Darling
The World of Poo by Terry Pratchett
Vulgar Things by Lee Rourke
Laughing Monsters by Denis Johnson (paperback)
The Sleep of the Righteous by Wolfgang Hilbig (Author), Isabel Fargo Cole (Translator)
The Laws of Medicine: Field Notes from an Uncertain Science by Siddhartha Mukherjee
City on Fire by Garth Risk Hallberg
Not in God’s Name by Jonathan Sacks
The Devil’s Chessboard: Allen Dulles, the CIA, and the Rise of America’s Secret Government by David Talbot
Of Sorrow and Such by Angela Slatter
Ardour: Poems by Nicole Brossard
Keep Moving: And Other Tips and Truths About Aging by Dick Van Dyke
The Devil and Winnie Flynn by Micol Ostow and David Ostow
No True Echo by Gareth P. Jones
The Do-Right by Lisa Sandlin
Nonsense: The Power of Not Knowing by Jamie Holmes
All the Stars in the Heavens by Adriana Trigiani
Eyes by William Gass
The Tears of Dark Water by Corban Addison
The Arab of the Future by Riad Sattouf
Howl: of Woman and Wolf by Susan Imhoff Bird
Pillow by Andrew Battershill
Rules for Werewolves by Kirk Lynn
The Trench Angel by Michael Keenan Gutierrez
And West is West by Ron Childress
The Sea Beach Line by Ben Nadler
Unfaithful Music & Disappearing Ink by Elvis Costello
The Rose Society (A Young Elites Novel) by Marie Lu
Cleopatra’s Shadows by Emily Holleman
The Mountain Shadow by Gregory David Roberts
Adventures in Human Being: A Grand Tour from the Cranium to the Calcaneum by Gavin Francis
Carrying Albert Home: The Somewhat True Story of A Man, His Wife, and Her Alligator by Homer Hickam
Inside the Head of Bruno Schulz by Maxim Biller
Juba! by Walter Dean Myers
Brooklyn: A Personal Memoir: With the lost photographs of David Attie by Truman Capote and David Attie
Out of Mercy by Jonathan Ashley
Dispatches from Pluto: Lost and Found in the Mississippi Delta by Richard Grant
Dreams of the Red Phoenix by Virginia Pye
The Good Neighbor by Amy Sue Nathan
A Song for Ella Grey by David Almond
The Bus Driver Who Wanted To Be God by Etgar Keret
Newt’s Emerald: Magic, Maids, and Masquerades by Garth Nix
Empire of Self: A Life of Gore Vidal by Jay Parini
10:04 by Ben Lerner (paperback)
The Boy Who Drew Monsters by Keith Donohue (paperback)
The Strangest by Michael J. Seidlinger
In the Shadow of Edgar Allan Poe: Classic Tales of Horror, 1816-1914 by Leslie S. Klinger
