All the Books! Podcast, Episode #18: New Releases for Sept. 8, 2015
This week, Liberty and Rebecca discuss This is Your Life, Harriet Chance, Negroland: A Memoir, and more books. This episode was sponsored by Lizard Radio by Pat Schmatz, Honor Girl by Maggie Thrash, and Baba Yaga’s Assistant by Marika McCoola and Emily Carroll.
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Books discussed on the show:
This is Your Life, Harriet Chance by Jonathan Evison
Liar, Temptress, Soldier, Spy: Four Women Undercover in the Civil War by Karen Abbott
Negroland: A Memoir by Margo Jefferson
As She Climbed Across the Table by Jonathan Lethem
The Secret History by Donna Tartt
What we’re reading:
Ghost Summer: Stories by Tananarive Due
More books out this week:
Writing Across the Landscape: Travel Journals 1950-2013 by Lawrence Ferlinghetti
Black Man in a White Coat: A Doctor’s Reflections on Race and Medicine by Damon Tweedy, M.D.
Bream Gives Me Hiccups by Jesse Eisenberg
Sleepwalker: The Mysterious Makings and Recovery of a Somnambulist by Kathleen Frazier and Mark Mahowald
The Afterlife Academy by Frank Cole
Benjamin Franklin: Huge Pain in my… by Adam Mansbach and Alan Zweibel
Black Earth: The Holocaust as History and Warning by Timothy Snyder
Reckless: My Life as a Pretender by Chrissie Hynde
Drowning Is Inevitable by Shalanda Stanley
The Magic of Math: Solving for x and Figuring Out Why by Arthur Benjamin
The Prize: Who’s in Charge of America’s Schools? by Dale Russakoff
The Invention of Nature: Alexander von Humboldt’s New World by Andrea Wulf
The Hummingbird by Stephen P. Kiernan
Edgewater by Courtney Sheinmel
The Making of Home: The 500-Year Story of How Our Houses Became Our Homes by Judith Flanders
The Hired Girl by Laura Amy Schlitz
Paid For: My Journey Through Prostitution by Rachel Moran
The Same City by Luisgé Martín
Honor Girl: A Graphic Memoir by Maggie Thrash
Between Clay and Dust by Musharraf Ali Farooqi
Fear of Dying by Erica Jong
The Grammar of God: A Journey Into the Words and Worlds of the Bible by Aviya Kushner
Above the Waterfall by Ron Rash
Captain in Calico by George Macdonald Fraser
The Entirely True Story of the Unbelievable FIB by Adam Shaughnessy
The Real Justine by Stephen Amidon
Witches of Lychford by Paul Cornell
No God But Gain: The Untold Story of Cuban Slavery, the Monroe Doctrine, and the
Making of the United States by Stephen Chambers
Trigger Mortis by Anthony Horowitz
Barcelona Shadows by Marc Pastor
Two Years Eight Months and Twenty-Eight Nights by Salman Rushdie
Make Me by Lee Child
Girl Without a Name by Sandra Block
Confessions of an Imaginary Friend: A Memoir by Jacques Papier by Michelle Cuevas
Beauty Is a Wound by Eka Kurniawan
The Visiting Privilege: New and Collected Stories by Joy Williams
Fat City by Leonard Gardner
The Reflection by Hugo Wilcken
Fans of the Impossible Life by Kate Scelsa
Wonders of the Invisible World by Christopher Barzak
The Lost Landscape: A Writer’s Coming of Age by Joyce Carol Oates
I Can Give You Anything But Love by Gary Indiana
Idyll Threats by Stephanie Gayle
The Little Water Sprite by Otfried Preussler and Winnie Gebhardt-Gayler
The Little Witch by Otfried Preussler and Winnie Gebhardt-Gayler
The Art of Crash Landing by Melissa DeCarlo
The Year of Fear: Machine Gun Kelly and the Manhunt That Changed the Nation by Joe Urschel
Cries for Help, Various: Stores by Padgett Powell
Taking Terri Mueller by Norma Fox Mazer
Brilliant by Roddy Doyle
Cinderland: A Memoir by Amy Jo Burns (paperback)
Welcome to Braggsville by T. Geronimo Johnson (paperback)
The Paying Guests by Sarah Waters (paperback)
