New Releases and More for August 21, 2018
This week, Liberty and María Cristina discuss Small Animals, Tragedy Plus Time, Underbug, and more great books.
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Books discussed on the show:
The Black God’s Drums by P. Djèlí Clark
Sanpaku by Kate Gavino
The Stars Now Unclaimed (The Universe After) by Drew Williams
Tragedy Plus Time: A Tragi-comic Memoir by Adam Cayton-Holland
Whiskey When We’re Dry by John Larison
Small Animals: Parenthood in the Age of Fear by Kim Brooks
Ball Lightning by Cixin Liu, Joel Martinsen (translator)
Underbug: An Obsessive Tale of Termites and Technology by Lisa Margonelli
What we’re reading:
Meg, Jo, Beth, Amy: The Story of Little Women and Why It Still Matters by Anne Boyd Rioux
Born to Be Posthumous: The Eccentric Life and Mysterious Genius of Edward Gorey by Mark Dery
More books out this week:
The State of Grace by Rachael Lucas
The Phantom Tree by Nicola Cornick
Arthur Ashe: A Life by Raymond Arsenault
Terra Incognita: Three Novellas by Connie Willis
PEN America Best Debut Short Stories 2018 by Jodi Angel and Lesley Nneka Arimah
The Hazards of Good Fortune by Seth Greenland
Magdalena Mountain: A Novel by Robert Michael Pyle
A New Hope For Mexico: Saying No to Corruption, Violence, and Trump’s Wall by Andrés Manuel López Obrador and Natascha Uhlmann
The Devoted: A Novel by Blair Hurley
Notes from the Fog: Stories by Ben Marcus
From Here to You (Crash and Burn) by Jamie McGuire
The Other Woman by Sandie Jones
Lands of Lost Borders: A Journey on the Silk Road by Kate Harris
Gross Anatomy: Dispatches from the Front (and Back) by Mara Altman
Sight: A Novel by Jessie Greengrass
The Only Girl: My Life and Times on the Masthead of Rolling Stone by Robin Green
Vox by Christina Dalcher
Coldfall Wood by Steven Savile
Not Her Daughter by Rea Frey
Putney: A Novel by Sofka Zinovieff
Pieces of Her: A Novel by Karin Slaughter
Ohio by Stephen Markley
The Air You Breathe: A Novel by Frances de Pontes Peebles
Physical Disobedience: An Unruly Guide to Health and Stamina for the Modern Feminist by Sarah Hays Coomer
Giant Days by Non Pratt
Rush: A Novel by Lisa Patton
Blood Papa: Rwanda’s New Generation by Jean Hatzfeld, Joshua David Jordan (translator)
Foundryside: A Novel (The Founders Trilogy) by Robert Jackson Bennett
How Are You Going to Save Yourself by JM Holmes
Other People’s Love Affairs: Stories by D. Wystan Owen
So Say We All: The Complete, Uncensored, Unauthorized Oral History of Battlestar Galactica by Edward Gross and Mark A. Altman
Red, White, Blue by Lea Carpenter
Heartbreaker: A Novel by Claudia Dey
The Dictionary of Body Language: A Field Guide to Human Behavior by Joe Navarro
WorkParty: How to Create & Cultivate the Career of Your Dreams by Jaclyn Johnson
Little Man, Little Man: A Story of Childhood by James Baldwin
Improvement by Joan Silber (paperback)
