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All the Books!

All the Backlist! April 6, 2018

All the Books!

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Fiction, Arts, Society & Culture, Books

4.6 • 1.2K Ratings

🗓️ 6 April 2018

⏱️ 10 minutes

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Summary

This week, Liberty discusses The Bluest Eye, Smoke Gets in Your Eyes, The Eyes of the Dragon, and more great older books. 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: Eye Level: Poems by Jenny Xie Wade In the Water: Poems by Tracy K. Smith Breath, Eyes, Memory by Edwidge Danticat The Eyes of the Dragon by Stephen King Their Eyes Were Watching God by Zora Neale Hurston Smoke Gets in Your Eyes by Caitlin Doughty The Bluest Eye by Toni Morrison Baby Monkey, Private Eye by Brian Selznick and David Serlin Little by Edward Carey The Iremonger Trilogy by Edward Carey Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0

You're listening to all the backlist, a weekly show about books that are not new.

0:05.0

I'm your host, Liberty Hardy, and I'm little in the middle, but I've got much backlist.

0:09.0

This is episode 41, and today I'm going to talk about a few great titles related to the week's new

0:14.0

releases and more. So hello, thank you to everyone who sent tweets and

0:18.7

emails and messages letting me know that you are totally down unanimously with hearing

0:25.9

about books more than once I won't talk about them 50 times but maybe I'll mention

0:30.5

them again like a couple today. Who said that?

0:34.0

So today I have a theme.

0:37.5

I was looking over the list of books that came out this week.

0:40.9

There's a great book of poetry that came out called

0:43.7

I-Level by Jenny Z and since it's National Poetry Month I thought I

0:48.1

would mention it. There's also the Tracy K Smith has a new book out today. She is the poet laureate of the I am not going to talk about poetry books because I don't read that much poetry.

1:04.3

I don't read, like I read like four poets and I know I need to read more.

1:09.4

I did read I-level and it was great and the Tracy K Smith.

1:11.8

Great. But instead I'm going to talk

1:14.5

about books that have eyes in the title because that's just how I am starting

1:21.7

with behind her eyes by Sarah Pinborough which came out last year

1:25.2

should be in paperback now or shortly I did not look that up before I started talking.

1:29.5

But if you want to read a crazy thriller, I mean crazy, like it's about a woman who has

1:38.0

one night stands with this guy that she really likes and then it turns out that he's her new boss and now things are weird and not only is he new boss but he's also married and so she decides to become friends with his wife not out out of any terrible motive, but also it's kind of strange and things

1:58.6

happen.

1:59.6

She's trying to figure out what's going on, what's going on with him and his wife and this is one of those books that

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