New Releases and More for March 14, 2017
This week, Liberty and Rebecca discuss White Tears, The Wanderers, Himself, and more books.
This episode was sponsored by Playster and Why We March.
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Books discussed on the show:
White Tears by Hari Kunzru
The Wanderers by Meg Howrey
Himself by Jess Kidd
The Rules Do Not Apply: A Memoir by Ariel Levy
Word by Word: The Secret Life of Dictionaries by Kory Stamper
Printer’s Error: Irreverent Stories from Book History by Rebecca Romney and J. P. Romney
Stressed, Unstressed: Classic Poems to Ease the Mind by Jonathan Bate and Paula Byrne
The Dress Lodger by Sheri Holman
My Favorite Thing is Monsters by Emil Ferris
Beggars in Spain by Nancy Kress
The Lost City of the Monkey God: A True Story by Douglas Preston
A Taste of Honey by Kai Ashante Wilson
The Best We Could Do: An Illustrated Memoir by Thi Bui
Miranda and Caliban by Jacqueline Carey
Strangers Drowning: Impossible Idealism, Drastic Choices, and the Urge to Help by Loretta MacFarquhar
Swimmer Among the Stars: Stories by Kanishk Tharoor
What we’re reading:
Midnight in America: Darkness, Sleep, and Dreams during the Civil War by Jonathan W. White
Every Body Yoga: Let Go of Fear, Get On the Mat, Love Your Body by Jessamyn Stanley
More books out this week:
How We Speak to One Another edited by Ander Monson and Craig Reinbold
Rebel Threads: Vintage Streetwear by Roger Burton
One of the Boys by Daniel Magariel
Open Midnight: Where Ancestors and Wilderness Meet by Brooke Williams
My Jewish Year: 18 Holidays, One Wondering Jew by Abigail Pogrebin
The Idiot by Elif Batuman
Bleaker House: Chasing My Novel to the End of the World by Nell Stevens
Sticks Angelica, Folk Hero by Michael DeForge
New York 2140 by Kim Stanley Robinson
The Middlepause: On Life After Youth by Marina Benjamin
The Djinn Falls in Love and Other Stories by Jared Shurin (Editor), Mahvesh Murad (Editor)
Sorry to Disrupt the Peace by Patty Yumi Cottrell
Matilda Empress by Lise Arin
Never Let You Go by Chevy Stevens
The New York Times Book of Crime: More Than 166 Years of Covering the Beat by Kevin Flynn
The Family Gene: A Mission to Turn My Deadly Inheritance into a Hopeful Future by Joselin Linder
Follow Me into the Dark by Felicia C. Sullivan
The Fall of Lisa Bellow by Susan Perabo
The Knowledge Illusion: Why We Never Think Alone by Steven Sloman and Philip Fernbach
The Road to Ithaca by Ben Pastor
The Vine That Ate the South by J.D. Wilkes
Getting Off On Frank Sinatra: A Copper Black Mystery by Megan Edwards
The Mother of All Questions by Rebecca Solnit
The Forgotten Girls by Owen Laukkanen
The Devil’s Triangle (A Brit in the FBI) by Catherine Coulter and J.T. Ellison
The Doorposts of Your House and on Your Gates by Jacob Bacharach
The Astonishing Mistakes of Dahlia Moss by Max Wirestone
Temporary People by Deepak Unnikrishnan
A Closed and Common Orbit (Wayfarers) by Becky Chambers
Nabokov’s Favorite Word Is Mauve: What the Numbers Reveal About the Classics, Bestsellers, and Our Own Writing by Ben Blatt
More Alive and Less Lonely: On Books and Writers by Jonathan Lethem
Eggshells by Caitriona Lally
The Loving Husband by Christobel Kent
The Principles Behind Flotation by Alexandra Teague
Double Dutch by Laura Trunkey
Mikhail and Margarita by Julie Lekstrom Himes
Spill Simmer Falter Wither by Sara Blume (paperback)
The Penny Poet of Portsmouth: A Memoir of Place, Solitude, and Friendship by Katherine Towler (paperback)
Jane Steele by Lyndsay Faye