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All the Books! Podcast, Episode #24: New Releases for Oct. 20, 2015

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Liberty Hardy

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Liberty Hardy is an unrepentant velocireader, writer, bitey mad lady, and tattoo canvas. Turn-ons include books, books and books. Her favorite exclamation is “Holy cats!” Liberty reads more than should be legal, sleeps very little, frequently writes on her belly with Sharpie markers, and when she dies, she’s leaving her body to library science. Until then, she lives with her three cats, Millay, Farrokh, and Zevon, in Maine. She is also right behind you. Just kidding! She’s too busy reading. Twitter: @MissLiberty

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This week, Liberty and Rebecca discuss The Mark and the Void, Lafayette in the Somewhat United States, Speed Kings, and more new releases.

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Books discussed on the show:

Lafayette in the Somewhat United States by Sarah Vowell

The Mark and the Void by Paul Murray

Wolf by Wolf by Ryan Graudin

You Don’t Have to Like Me: Essays on Growing Up, Speaking Out, and Finding Feminism by Alida Nugent

Speed Kings: The 1932 Winter Olympics and the Fastest Men in the World by Andy Bull

The Birth of the Pill: How Four Crusaders Reinvented Sex and Launched a Revolution by Jonathan Eig

Departure by A. G. Riddle

Click: When We Knew We Were Feminists by J. Courtney Sullivan and Courtney E. Martin

Pat the Bunny (Touch and Feel Book) by Dorothy Kunhardt

What we’re reading:

The Collected Fiction of Leena Krohn (out in December from Cheeky Frawg Books)

Gotham Academy, Survivors’ Club

More books out this week:

Home is Burning by Dan Marshall

Golden Age by Jane Smiley

Plotted: A Literary Atlas by Andrew DeGraff

Becoming Nicole: The Transformation of an American Family by Amy Ellis Nutt

Uncivil Rites: Palestine and the Limits of Academic Freedom by Steven Salaita

The Unfortunate Decisions of Dahlia Moss by Max Wirestone

Gilliamesque: A Pre-posthumous Memoir by Terry Gilliam

Rails Under My Back by Jeffery Renard Allen

Envy of Angels by Matt Wallace

The Explorers Guild: Volume One: A Passage to Shambhala by Kevin Costner (Author), Jon Baird (Author), Rick Ross (Illustrator)

If You’re Lucky by Yvonne Prinz

The League of Unexceptional Children by Gitty Daneshvari

The Hours Count by Jillian Cantor

Gorsky by Vesna Goldsworthy

Velvet Undercover by Teri Brown

We Were Brothers by Barry Moser

Welcome to Night Vale by Joseph Fink and Jeffrey Cranor

Witches of America Alex Mar

Career of Evil by Robert Galbraith

The Lake House by Kate Morton

Lum by Libby Ware

Smoke by Catherine McKenzie

Heart and Brain: An Awkward Yeti Collection by The Awkward Yeti

If the Raindrops United: Drawings and Cartoons by Judah Friedlander

Submission by Michel Houellebecq

A Strangeness in My Mind by Orhan Pamuk

Illuminae by Amie Kaufman and Jay Kristoff

Radiance by Catherynne Valente

Not That Kind of Girl: A Young Woman Tells You What She’s “Learned” by Lena Dunham (paperback)