New Releases for Nov. 10, 2015 – Recorded Live!
This week, Liberty and Rebecca discuss Our Spoons Came from Woolworths, Dear Mr. You, The Mad Feast, and more new releases. Recorded live at Book Riot Live 2015 in NYC!
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Books discussed on the show:
Our Spoons Came from Woolworths by Barbara Comyns
Dear Mr. You by Mary-Louise Parker
Six-Gun Snow White by Catherynne Valente
The Color Purple by Alice Walker
You Have Never Been Here by Mary Rickert
The Mad Feast: An Ecstatic Tour Through America’s Food by Matthew Gavin Frank
(Preparing the Ghost: An Essay Concerning the Giant Squid and Its First Photographer by Matthew Gavin Frank)
Because She Never Asked by Enrique Vila-Matas, translated by Valerie Miles
(Followed by Kevin Brockmeier fangirling. Here’s an amazing place to start.)
What we’re reading:
My Father, the Pornographer: A Memoir by Chris Offutt
The Queen by Tiffany Reisz
More books out this week:
SPQR: A History of Ancient Rome by Mary Beard
Cast of Characters: Wolcott Gibbs, E. B. White, James Thurber, and the Golden Age of the New Yorker by Thomas Vinciguerra
Looking at Pictures by Robert Walser
Hotels of North America by Rick Moody
Fox Tooth Heart by John McManus
Safe Inside the Violence by Christopher Irvin
Eyes Full of Empty by Jérémie Guez (Author), Edward Gauvin (Translator)
Dance to the Piper by Agnes De Mille
The Great Forgetting by James Renner
The Bassoon King: My Life in Art, Faith, and Idiocy by Rainn Wilson
The Pawnbroker by Edward Lewis Wallant
War, So Much War by Mercè Rodoreda (Author), Martha Tennent (Translator), Maruxa Relaño (Translator)
Petty: The Biography by Warren Zanes
Trace: Memory, History, Race, and the American Landscape by Lauret Savoy
Rules for a Knight by Ethan Hawke
On the Run with Mary by Jonathan Barrow
Target in the Night by Ricardo Piglia (Author), Sergio Waisman (Translator)
The Magic Strings of Frankie Presto by Mitch Albom
Bird by Noy Holland
Sam Phillips: The Man Who Invented Rock ‘n’ Roll by Peter Guralnick
Time Will Clean the Carcass Bones: Selected and New Poems by Lucia Perillo
The Voiceover Artist by Dave Reidy
Tales of Accidental Genius: Stories by Simon Van Booy
Mission Creep: Poems by Joshua Trotter
Country Club: Poems by Andy McGuire
Year of Yes: How to Dance It Out, Stand In the Sun and Be Your Own Person by Shonda Rhimes
Guano by Louis Carmain
A Wild Swan: And Other Tales by Michael Cunningham
The Murder of Halland by Pia Juul
The Big Green Tent by Ludmila Ulitskaya
My Kind of Sound : The Secret History of Chicago Music edited by Steve Krakow, JC Gabel
The Promise: An Elvis Cole and Joe Pike Novel by Robert Crais
A Superior Man by Paul Yee
Ball : Stories by Tara Ison
This Way Home by Wes Moore and Shawn Goodman
In the Footsteps of Crazy Horse by Joseph Marshall III
Dangerous Lies by Becca Fitzpatrick
At the Water’s Edge by Sara Gruen (paperback)
