New Releases and More for April 10, 2018
This week, Liberty and Amanda discuss Circe, Indian Horse, Anna Karenina, and more great books.
This episode was sponsored by So Delicious, ThirdLove, and School for Psychics by K.C. Archer.
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Trigger warning for discussion of stalking and abuse at 1:52.
Trigger warning for discussion of rape and graphic violence at 11:00.
Trigger warning for distressing content at 17:05.
Trigger warning for discussion of racism and substance abuse at 25:12.
Books discussed on the show:
You All Grow Up and Leave Me: A Memoir of Teenage Obsession by Piper Weiss
Jurassic Park by Michael Crichton
Circe by Madeline Miller
The Underground Railroad by Colson Whitehead
The Trauma Cleaner: One Woman’s Extraordinary Life in the Business of Death, Decay, and Disaster by Sarah Krasnostein
Anna Karenina by Leo Tolstoy
Indian Horse: A Novel by Richard Wagamese
I Await the Devil’s Coming by Mary MacLane
What we’re reading this week:
A Conjuring of Light: A Novel (Shades of Magic) by V. E. Schwab
Rock Manning Goes for Broke by Charlie Jane Anders
More books out this week:
Black Swans: Stories by Eve Babitz
Macbeth by Jo Nesbo
Nothing Forgotten by Jessica Levine
Dictionary Stories: Short Fictions and Other Findings by Jez Burrows
Though I Get Home by YZ Chin
After Anna by Lisa Scottoline
A Death of No Importance: A Mystery by Mariah Fredericks
Cove by Cynan Jones
Vicuña: A Play by Jon Robin Baitz
Speakeasy by Alisa Smith
Demi-Gods by Eliza Robertson
Go Ask Fannie by Elisabeth Hyde
Natural Causes: An Epidemic of Wellness, the Certainty of Dying, and Killing Ourselves to Live Longer by Barbara Ehrenreich
Eventide by Therese Bohman (Author), Marlaine Delargy (Translator)
Woman of the Ashes: A Novel (Sands of the Emperor) by Mia Couto (Author), David Brookshaw (Translator)
Oneiron by Laura Lindstedt, Owen Witesman (Translator)
The Opposite of Hate: A Field Guide to Repairing Our Humanity by Sally Kohn
Air Traffic: A Memoir of Ambition and Manhood in America by Gregory Pardlo
The Teachings of Don B.: Satires, Parodies, Fables, Illustrated Stories, and Plays by Donald Barthelme
Fascism: A Warning by Madeleine Albright
The Changeling by Joy Williams
Lizzie by Dawn Ius
Dreamer by L.E. DeLano
Nothing is Forgotten by Peter Golden
Not Here by Hieu Minh Nguyen
And Now We Have Everything: On Motherhood Before I Was Ready by Meaghan O’Connell
The New Neighbors by Simon Lelic
Fire Dance by Ilana C. Myer
Space Opera by Catherynne M. Valente (Moved from last week.)
The Girl of Ink & Stars by Kiran Millwood Hargrave
Oceanic by Aimee Nezhukumatathil
The Library: A Catalogue of Wonders by Stuart Kells
Country Dark by Chris Offutt
Sharp: The Women Who Made an Art of Having an Opinion by Michelle Dean
Unbury Carol by Josh Malerman
The Dark Clouds Shining (A Jack McColl Novel) by David Downing
Your Art Will Save Your Life by Beth Pickens
Lost in the Beehive: A Novel by Michele Young-Stone
A Lady’s Guide to Selling Out: A Novel by Sally Franson
The Fox Hunt: A Refugee’s Memoir of Coming to America by Mohammed Al Samawi
For Every One by Jason Reynolds
No Immediate Danger: Volume One of Carbon Ideologies by William T. Vollmann
Beyond Measure: Essays by Rachel Z. Arndt
Sophia of Silicon Valley: A Novel by Anna Yen
Who’s Who When Everyone is Someone Else by C.D. Rose
Flying at Night by Rebecca L. Brown
You Go First by Erin Entrada Kelly
The Plant Messiah: Adventures in Search of the World’s Rarest Species by Carlos Magdalena
Cool for You by Eileen Myles
The Displaced: Refugee Writers on Refugee Lives edited by Viet Thanh Nguyen
Heads of the Colored People: Stories by Nafissa Thompson-Spires
Devils Unto Dust by Emma Berquist
Feast of Sorrow by Crystal King (paperback)
