Episode 71
New Releases and More for September 13, 2016
This week, Liberty and Rebecca discuss Children of the New World, Rani Patel in Full Effect, The Last Days of Jack Sparks, and more books.
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Books discussed on the show:
The Virginity of Famous Men: Stories by Christine Sneed
We Gon’ Be Alright: Notes on Race and Resegregation by Jeff Chang
Rani Patel in Full Effect by Sonia Patel
Children of the New World: Stories by Alexander Weinstein
The Last Days of Jack Sparks by Jason Arnopp
Loner by Teddy Wayne
The Hike by Drew Magary
The Sparrow by Mary Doria Russell
What we’re reading:
His Bloody Project by Graeme Macrae Burnet
The Haunting of Hill House by Shirley Jackson
More books out this week:
A Song to Take the World Apart by Zan Romanoff
A Second Chance: The Chronicles of St. Mary’s Book Three by Jodi Taylor
Edward Gets Messy by Rita Meade and Olga Stern
Cubanisms: A Look at Cuba through Art and Words by Pedro Menocal and Pablo Cano
The Evil Wizard Smallbone by Delia Sherman
Cold-Forged Flame by Marie Brennan
The Detective’s Garden: A Love Story and Meditation on Murder by Janyce Stefan-Cole
Where Am I Now?: True Stories of Girlhood and Accidental Fame by Mara Wilson
In Such Good Company: Eleven Years of Laughter, Mayhem, and Fun in the Sandbox by Carol Burnett
Black Panther: A Nation Under Our Feet Book 1 by Ta-Nehisi Coates and Brian Stelfreeze
The Home Place: Memoirs of a Colored Man’s Love Affair with Nature by J. Drew Lanham
Murder at the House of Rooster Happiness (Ethical Chiang Mai Detective Agency) by David Casarett
Vivian in Red by Kristina Riggle
Roman Crazy by Alice Clayton and Nina Bocci
Fates and Traitors: A Novel of John Wilkes Booth by Jennifer Chiaverini
A Tree or a Person or a Wall: Stories by Matt Bell
My (Underground) American Dream: My True Story as an Undocumented Immigrant Who Became a Wall Street Executive by Julissa Arce
Between Life and Death by Yoram Kaniuk (Author), Barbara Harshav (Translator)
Reinventing Prosperity: Managing Economic Growth to Reduce Unemployment, Inequality, and Climate Change by Graeme Maxton and Jorgen Randers
Remembered Light: Cy Twombly in Lexington by Sally Mann
The Da Vinci Code (The Young Adult Adaptation) by Dan Brown
A House in the Country by Peter Pennoyer and Katie Ridder, with Anne Walker, photos by Eric Piasecki
Between Breaths: A Memoir of Panic and Addiction by Elizabeth Vargas
The Orphan Mother by Robert Hicks
After Land, Vol. 1: The Dream You Dream Alone Is Just a Dream… by Chris Taylor
Feminist Fight Club: An Office Survival Manual for a Sexist Workplace by Jessica Bennett
Bloom County Episode XI: A New Hope by Berkeley Breathed
Little Nothing by Marisa Silver
Intimations: Stories by Alexandra Kleeman
The Island by Olivia Levez
I’m Judging You : The Do-Better Manual by Luvvie Ajayi
The Lost and the Found by Cat Clarke
When in French: Love in a Second Language by Lauren Collins
Hidden Thunder: Rock Art of the Upper Midwest by Geri Schrab and Robert F. Boszhardt
Kedzie Avenue: Stories Drawn from a City Street by Darryl Holliday, Jamie Hibdon, and E.N. Rodriguez
If Venice Dies by Salvatore Settis, trans. by André Naffis-Sahely
Red Right Hand by Chris Holm
Umami by Laia Jufresa (Author), Sophie Hughes (Translator)
Two She-Bears by Meir Shalev, Stuart Schoffman
Ark by Julian Tepper
Blood Crime by Sebastia Alzamora (Author), Martha Tennent (Translator), Maruxa Relano (Translator)
Shakespeare in Swahililand: In Search of a Global Poet by Edward Wilson-Lee
Talking to Myself: Reflections on Learning to Love Myself and Living Bravely by Daníela Rivera Zacarías
A Whole Life by Robert Seethaler (Author), Charlotte Collins (Translator)
How to Be Perfect: An Illustrated Guide by Ron Padgett (Author), Jason Novak (Illustrator)
Girlfriends, Ghosts, and Other Stories (New York Review Books Classics) by Robert Walser
Avid Reader: A Life by Robert Gottlieb
Toil and Trouble by Mairghread Scott and Kelly Matthews
Shelter in Place by Alexander Maksik
The Risen by Ron Rash
This Vast Southern Empire by Matthew Karp
Where Did You Sleep Last Night by Lynn Crosbie
Jerusalem by Alan Moore
The Bombs That Brought Us Together by Brian Conaghan
The Shooting by James Boice
Designing Your Life : How to Build a Well-Lived, Joyful Life by Bill Burnett, Dave Evans
Ghosts by Raina Telgemeier
Catlantis by Anna Starobinets (Author), Andrzej Klimowski (Illustrator), Jane Bugaeva (Translator)
Black Water by Louise Doughty
Wolf Boys: Two American Teenagers and Mexico’s Most Dangerous Drug Cartel by Dan Slater
Girl on a Plane by Miriam Moss
The Sleeping World by Gabrielle Lucille Fuentes
Wintersong by S. Jae-Jones
The Secrets of Wishtide by Kate Saunders
Darktown by Thomas Mullen
Hot or Not: 20th-Century Male Artists by Jessica Campbell
Thirty-Eight Witnesses: The Kitty Genovese Case by A.M. Rosenthal
Nine Island by Jane Alison
Commonwealth by Ann Patchett
Black Wave by Michelle Tea
The Sound of Seas: Book 3 of the Earthend Saga by Gillian Anderson
Every Kind of Wanting by Gina Frangello
The Fix, Vol. 1 by Nick Spencer and Steve Lieber
A Map of Signs and Scents: New and Selected Poems, 1979–2014 by Amjad Nasser
Fates and Furies by Lauren Groff (paperback)
