New Releases and More for October 4, 2016
This week, Liberty and Rebecca discuss The Wangs vs. the World, You Can’t Touch My Hair, Ghostland, and more books.
This show has been sponsored by A Change of Heart by Sonali Dev, The Other Einstein by Marie Benedict and ThirdLove.
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Books discussed on the show:
The News of the World by Paulette Jiles
The Wangs vs The World by Jade Chang
Ghostland: An American History in Haunted Places by Colin Dickey
I’ll Tell You in Person: Essays by Chloe Caldwell
You Can’t Touch My Hair and Other Things I Still Have to Explain by Phoebe Robinson
The Ramblers by Aidan Donnelly Rowley
Brief Histories of Everyday Objects by Andy Warner
Geek Love by Katherine Dunn
What we’re reading:
Public Library and Other Stories by Ali Smith
Making Rumours: The Inside Story of the Classic Fleetwood Mac Album by Ken Caillat
The Mothers by Brit Bennett
We Show What We Have Learned and Other Stories by Clare Beams
More books out this week:
Ashes by Laurie Halse Anderson
Patricide by D. Foy
Last Look by Charles Burns
The Trespasser by Tana French
Holding Up the Universe by Jennifer Niven
Hamstersaurus Rex by Tom O’Donnell and Tim Miller
Crosstalk by Connie Willis
The Rift Uprising: The Rift Uprising Trilogy by Amy S. Foster
Blood, Bullets, and Bones : The Story of Forensic Science from Sherlock Holmes to DNA by Bridget Heos
Replica by Lauren Oliver
The Big Book of Jack the Ripper (Vintage Crime/Black Lizard Original) by Otto Penzler
By Gaslight by Steven Price
Yesternight by Cat Winters
Last Seen Leaving by Caleb Roehrig
Stranded by Bracken MacLeod
My Own Words by Ruth Bader Ginsburg
The Best American Essays 2016 by edited Jonathan Franzen
The Angel of History by Rabih Alameddine
Angels of Music by Kim Newman
Platinum End, Vol. 1 by Tsugumi Ohba and Takeshi Obata
Demon, Vol. 1 by Jason Shiga
The Explosion Chronicles by Yan Lianke (Author), Carlos Rojas (Translator)
Wonder Woman: The True Amazon by Jill Thompson
The Battles of Bridget Lee: Invasion of Farfall by Ethan Young
Colonel Lágrimas by Carlos Fonseca Suárez (Author), Megan McDowell (Translator)
Messy: The Power of Disorder to Transform Our Lives by Tim Harford
Retro Photo: An Obsession: A Personal Selection of Vintage Cameras and the Photographs They Take by David Ellwand
Refugees, Terror and Other Troubles with the Neighbors: Against the Double Blackmail by Slavoj Zizek
There Now: Poems by Eamon Grennan
Our Hearts Will Burn Us Down by Anne Valente
All That Man Is by David Szalay
The Attention Merchants: The Epic Scramble to Get Inside Our Heads by Tim Wu
Nicotine by Nell Zink
Private Novelist by Nell Zink
Ghost Songs by Regina McBride
When the Sea Turned to Silver by Grace Lin
Spare and Found Parts by Sarah Maria Griffin
The Motion of Puppets by Keith Donohue
The Wealthy Renter: How to Choose Housing That Will Make You Rich by Alex Avery
The Mortifications by Derek Palacio
Something in Between by Melissa de la Cruz
Breaking van Gogh : Saint-Rémy, Forgery, and the $95 Million Fake at the Met by James Grundvig
Adolfo Kaminsky: A Forger’s Life by Sarah Kaminsky
Sweetest Taboo by J. Kenner
Among the Living by Jonathan Rabb
Fractured by Catherine McKenzie
The Best American Comics 2016 by edited by Roz Chast and Bill Kartalopoulos
We Know It Was You by Maggie Thrash
The Secrets of Roscarbury Hall by Ann O’Loughlin
Competing Against Luck: The Story of Innovation and Customer Choice by Clayton M. Christensen, Taddy Hall, Karen Dillon, and David S. Duncan
Our Lady of Greenwich Village by Dermot McEvoy
Cruel Beautiful World by Caroline Leavitt
Invitation Strictly Personal: 40 Years of Fashion Show Invites by Iain R. Webb
Rolling Blackouts: Dispatches from Turkey, Syria, and Iraq by Sarah Glidden
A City Dreaming by Daniel Polansky
The French Chef in America : Julia Child’s Second Act by Alex Prud’homme
Corsets and Codpieces: A History of Outrageous Fashion, from Roman Times to the Modern Era by Karen Bowman
Vegas Girls by Heather Skyler
This is How You Die by David Jester
FantasticLand by Mike Bockoven
The Ballroom Café by Ann O’Loughlin
Motional Blur by Robert Erringer
Dog Years (Pitt Drue Heinz Lit Prize) by Melissa Yancy
How Bad Writing Destroyed the World: Ayn Rand and the Literary Origins of the Financial Crisis by Adam Weiner
Smart Partners: Building Successful Relationships in Business and Life by Jim Burba and Bob Hayes