All the Backlist! December 8, 2017

All the Books!

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Fiction, Arts, Society & Culture, Books

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🗓️ 8 December 2017

⏱️ 8 minutes

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This week, Liberty discusses The Music Lesson, An Artist of the Floating World, The Last Nude, and more great older books. This week’s episode is sponsored by The Impossible Fortress by Jason Rekulak. 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: Alive in Shape and Color: 17 Paintings by Great Artists and the Stories They Inspired edited by Lawrence Block The Music Lesson by Katharine Weber The Bird Artist by Howard Norman Shadowshaper by Daniel José Older How To Be Both by Ali Smith Luncheon of the Boating Party by Susan Vreeland The Painter by Peter Heller An Artist of the Floating World by Kazuo Ishiguro The Great Man by Kate Christensen The Last Nude by Ellis Avery The Art Forger by B. A. Shapiro SuperMutant Magic Academy by Jillian Tamaki Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:27.8	You're listening to all the backlist. a weekly show about books that are not new.
0:35.4	I'm your host Liberty Hardy and I'm little in the middle but I've got much backlist.
0:39.6	This is episode 25 and today I'm going to talk about a few great titles related to the weeks new releases and more.
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0:54.3	Jason Rachulik. It's May 1987. 14 year old Billy Marvin of Wet Bridge,
0:59.8	with New Jersey, is a nerd, but a decidedly happy nerd. Afternoons were spent with his buddies watching copious amounts of television,
1:06.5	gorging on pop tarts, debating who would win in a brawl, Rocky Balboa or Freddie Krueger,
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1:12.5	Magnuming video games on his Commodore 64 late into the night.
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