New Releases and More for January 28, 2025

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This week, Liberty and Patricia discuss Old Soul, Syme’s Letter Writer, From These Roots, and more great books!

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Books Discussed On the Show:

Old Soul by Susan Barker

Syme’s Letter Writer: A Guide to Modern Correspondence About (Almost) Every Imaginable Subject of Daily Life, with Odes to Desktop Ephemera and Selected Letters of Famous Writers by Rachel Syme

Tartufo by Kira Jane Buxton 

From These Roots: My Fight with Harvard to Reclaim My Legacy by Tamara Lanier

We Could Be Rats by Emily Austin 

Black in Blues: How a Color Tells the Story of My People by Imani Perry

Bat Eater and Other Names for Cora Zeng by Kylie Lee Baker

Blob: A Love Story by Maggie Su

What We’re Reading:

Lore Olympus: Volume One by Rachel Smythe

Afrofuturism: A History of Black Futures from the National Museum of African American History and Culture edited by Kinshasha Holman Conwill and Kevin M. Strait

The Feather Detective: Mystery, Mayhem, and the Magnificent Life of Roxie Laybourne by Chris Sweeney

More Books Out This Week:

We Are Dreams in the Eternal Machine by Deni Ellis Béchard

At the Bottom of the Garden by Camilla Bruce 

The Outcast Mage by Annabel Campbell 

We Rip the World Apart by Charlene Carr

Superbloom: How Technologies of Connection Tear Us Apart by Nicholas Carr 

The Harder I Fight, the More I Love You by Neko Case

Recommended Reading by Paul Coccia

It’s a Love/Skate Relationship by Carli J. Corson

The Scorpion Queen by Mina Fears

The Oligarch’s Daughter by Joseph Finder

Holy Ground: On Activism, Environmental Justice, and Finding Hope by Catherine Coleman Flowers

We Are Watching by Alison Gaylin

The Killing Fields of East New York: The First Subprime Mortgage Scandal, a White-Collar Crime Spree, and the Collapse of an American Neighborhood by Stacy Horn

Here Beside the Rising Tide by Emily Jane 

Yin Yang Love Song by Lauren Kung Jessen

Spiral by Bal Khabra

The English Problem by Beena Kamlani

Wild West Village: Not a Memoir (Unless I Win an Oscar, Die Tragically, or Score a Country #1) by Lola Kirke 

Underground Barbie by Maša Kolanovic, Ena Selimovic (translator)

Sinkhole, and Other Inexplicable Voids: Stories by Leyna Krow

Gate to Kagoshima by Poppy Kuroki

At Dark, I Become Loathsome by Eric LaRocca

I Am Not Jessica Chen by Ann Liang

Bronshtein in the Bronx by Robert Littell

Everything Must Go: The Stories We Tell About the End of the World by Dorian Lynskey

Our Winter Monster by Dennis Mahoney

Stars Around My Scars: The Annotated Poetry of Taylor Swift by Elly McCausland

The Crash by Freida McFadden

Been Wrong So Long It Feels Like Right: A King Oliver Novel by Walter Mosley

The Weekend Guests by Liza North

Pretend We’re Dead: The Rise, Fall, and Resurrection of Women in Rock in the ’90s by Tanya Pearson

Too Soon by Betty Shamieh

This Beautiful, Ridiculous City: A Graphic Memoir by Kay Sohini

On the Wings of la Noche by Vanessa L. Torres

Johnny Careless by Kevin Wade

The Loves of My Life: A Sex Memoir by Edmund White

Good Dirt by Charmaine Wilkerson

Tell Me What You Did by Carter Wilson

I Think They Love You by Julian Winters