New Releases for Oct. 6, 2015
This week, Liberty and Rebecca discuss The Witch of Lime Street: Séance, Seduction, and Houdini in the Spirit World, Slaughterhouse 90210, Stars Between the Sun and Moon, and more new releases.
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Books discussed on the show:
Mothers, Tell Your Daughters: Stories by Bonnie Jo Campbell
The Witch of Lime Street: Séance, Seduction, and Houdini in the Spirit World by David Jaher
Slaughterhouse 90210 by Maris Kreizman
Don’t Suck, Don’t Die: Giving Up Vic Chesnutt by Kristin Hersh
100 Years of the Best American Short Stories edited by Lorrie Moore and Heidi Pitlor
The Clasp by Sloane Crosley
Stars Between the Sun and Moon: One Woman’s Life in North Korea and Escape to Freedom by Lucia Jang and Susan McClelland
Florynce “Flo” Kennedy: The Life of a Black Feminist Radical by Sherie M. Randolph
What we’re reading:
American Sweepstakes: How One Small State Bucked the Church, the Feds, and the Mob to Usher in the Lottery Age by Kevin Flynn
The Claiming of Sleeping Beauty by A. N. Roquelaure (Anne Rice)
More books out this week:
Dietrich & Riefenstahl: Hollywood, Berlin, and a Century in Two Lives by Karin Wieland (Author), Shelley Frisch (Translator)
The Song Machine: Inside the Hit Factory by John Seabrook
Swords and Scoundrels (The Duelists Trilogy) by Julia Knight
The Searcher by Simon Toyne
A Thousand Nights by E.K. Johnston
Bats of the Republic by Zachary Thomas Dodson
Poorly Drawn Lines: Good Ideas and Amazing Stories by Reza Farazmand
Nation of Enemies by H.A. Raynes
Learning to Die in the Anthropocene: Reflections on the End of a Civilization by Roy Scranton
Wilkie Collins: A Brief Life by Peter Ackroyd
Ghostly: A Collection of Ghost Stories by Audrey Niffenegger
A Poet of the Invisible World by Michael Golding
House Arrest by K.A. Holt
It’s a Wonderful Death by Sarah J. Schmitt
Leading by Alex Ferguson
You Blew It!: An Awkward Look at the Many Ways in Which You’ve Already Ruined Your Life by Josh Gondelman and Joe Berkowitz
The Secret Chord by Geraldine Brooks
The Last Witness by K. J. Parker
Pretending to Dance by Diane Chamberlain
Keeping an Eye Open: Essays on Art by Julian Barnes
We’ll Never Be Apart by Emiko Jean
The Nest by Kenneth Oppel (Author), Jon Klassen (Illustrator)
A House of My Own: Stories from My Life by Sandra Cisneros
Silver on the Road (The Devil’s West) by Laura Anne Gilman
Everything She Forgot by Lisa Ballantyne
A Tale of Highly Unusual Magic by Lisa Papademetriou
Art in the Blood: A Sherlock Holmes Adventure by Bonnie MacBird
Supplication: Selected Poems of John Wieners by John Wieners
An Inheritance of Ashes by Leah Bobet
Magnus Chase and the Gods of Asgard, Book 1: The Sword of Summer by Rick Riordan
Shadows of Carcosa : Tales of Cosmic Horror by Lovecraft, Chambers, Machen, Poe, and Other Masters of the Weird
Chance Harbor by Holly Robinson
A Kind of Grief by A. D. Scott
Fortunate Son: My Life, My Music by John Fogerty
The Ville Rat by Martin Limon
Daydreams of Angels: Stories by Heather O’Neill
Four-Legged Girl: Poems by Diane Seuss
Buffalo Trail by Jeff Guinn
Katherine Carlyle by Rupert Thomson
Witness to Change: From Jim Crow to Political Empowerment by Sybil Haydel Morial
Choosing Hope: Moving Forward from Life’s Darkest Hours by Kaitlin Roig-DeBellis
Dinner by César Aira (Author), Katherine Silver (Translator)
MJ: The Genius of Michael Jackson by Steve Knopper
Orbiting Jupiter by Gary D. Schmidt
Night Music: Nocturnes Vol. 2 by John Connolly
Grounded by Diana Butler Bass
America’s Mistress: The Life and Time of Miss Eartha Kitt by John L. Williams
God’s Kingdom by Howard Frank Mosher
Son: A Psychopath and His Victims by Jack Olsen
Carry On by Rainbow Rowell
Eve’s Hollywood by Eve Babitz
The Rim of Morning: Two Tales of Cosmic Horror by William Sloane
The Gap of Time by Jeanette Winterson
Changing the Subject: Art and Attention in the Internet Age by Sven Birkerts
Then Comes Marriage: United States v. Windsor and the Defeat of DOMA by Roberta Kaplan, with Lisa Dickey
The Rest of Us Just Live Here by Patrick Ness
M Train by Patti Smith
Death by Water by Kenzaburō Ōe
Killing and Dying by Adrian Tomine
Futuristic Violence and Fancy Suits by David Wong
The Devil in the Valley by Castle Freeman, Jr.
And Then I Danced: Traveling the Road to LGBT Equality by Mark Segal
Seize the Night: New Tales of Vampiric Terror edited by Christopher Golden
The Dead Duke, His Secret Wife, and the Missing Corpse : An Extraordinary Edwardian Case of Deception and Intrigue by Piu Marie Eatwell
The Natural World of Winnie-the-Pooh: A Walk Through the Forest that Inspired the Hundred Acre Wood by Kathryn Aalto
The Story of My Tits by Jennifer Hayden
If You Wrong Us by Dawn Kiehr
The Well-Dressed Wound by Derek McCormack
Lila by Marilynne Robinson (Now in paperback.)
Tell Me Again How a Crush Should Feel by Sara Farizan (Now in paperback.)
The Magician’s Lie by Greer Macallister (Now in paperback.)
The Girl Who Was Saturday Night by Heather O’Neill (Now in paperback.)
