All the Backlist! April 27, 2018

All the Books!

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Fiction, Arts, Society & Culture, Books

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🗓️ 27 April 2018

⏱️ 13 minutes

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This week, Liberty discusses a few great nonfiction books. This week’s episode was sponsored by American Street by Ibi Zoboi. Subscribe to All the Books! using RSS or Apple Podcasts and never miss a beat book. Sign up for the weekly New Books! newsletter for even more new book news. This content contains affiliate links. When you buy through these links, we may earn an affiliate commission. Books discussed on the show: I’ll Be Gone in the Dark: One Woman’s Obsessive Search for the Golden State Killer by Michelle McNamara The Real Lolita: The Kidnapping of Sally Horner and the Novel That Scandalized the World by Sarah Weinman The Poet and the Murderer by Simon Worrall Spectacle: The Astonishing Life of Ota Benga by Pamela Newkirk The Skies Belong to Us: Love and Terror in the Golden Age of Hijacking by Brendan I. Koerner The Mixtape of My Life: A Do-It-Yourself Music Memoir by Robert K. Elder Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:20.0	You're listening to all the backlist, a weekly show about books that are not new.
0:25.6	I'm your host Liberty Hardy, and I'm little in the middle, but I've got much backlist.
0:29.8	This is episode 43, and today I'm going to talk about a few great titles related to the
0:33.7	week's news and more. Hello everyone. Sorry about last week I if you listen to
0:40.1	all the books you might have heard that I didn't sound so good and I was feeling
0:44.2	even worse by the time recording time for all the backlist rolled around so I took a
0:49.2	week off very sorry but I'm feeling better not a hundred percent but better and before I
0:56.0	get started I want to say thank you to today's sponsor it is American Street
0:59.8	by Ibiza Boye Fabiola thought she would find a good life in America, but after they leave Haiti,
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