All the Backlist! February 14, 2025

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🗓️ 14 February 2025

⏱️ 22 minutes

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This week, Sharifah talks about a couple of books she loves that are both collections — one nonfiction and one fiction. Subscribe to All the Books! using RSS, Apple Podcasts, or Spotify and never miss a book. Sign up for the weekly New Books! newsletter for even more new book news. A new year means a new Read Harder Challenge! Join us as we make our way through 24 tasks meant to expand our reading horizons. To get recommendations for each task, sign up for the Read Harder newsletter. All Access subscribers get even more recommendations plus community features, where you can connect with like-minded readers in a cozy and supportive corner of the internet. You can become an All Access member starting at $6 per month or $60 per year to get unlimited access to all members-only content in 20+ newsletters, community features, and the warm fuzzies of knowing you are supporting independent media. To join, visit bookriot.com/readharder. This content contains affiliate links. When you buy through these links, we may earn an affiliate commission. Books Discussed The Secret Lives of Church Ladies by Deesha Philyaw Please Don't Sit on My Bed in Your Outside Clothes by Phoebe Robinson 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.
0:15.5	I'm Sharifah. Today is February 6, 2025. And today I'm going to tell you about a couple of books that at first
0:22.5	I did not think had a theme. So just books, backless books I really love that have stuck with me
0:29.4	since I read them so long ago. But I realized that they do have a theme, which is that they are both
0:34.7	collections of very different types, but they are both collections of very different types but they are both
0:38.0	collected works. So one of them is nonfiction. One of them is a fiction short story collection
0:47.0	and I'm really excited to talk about them. But before I do, let's hear from our sponsor.
0:57.8	Today's episode is brought to you by Flatiron Books. Publisher of Brook Shields is not
1:02.1	allowed to get old by Brooke Shields. Brook Shields has spent a lifetime in the public eye.
1:07.1	Growing up as a child actor and model, her every feature was scrutinized, her every decision judged.
1:12.6	Today, Brooke faces a different kind of scrutiny, that of being a woman of a quote-unquote certain age.
1:18.9	And yet, for Brooke, the passage of time has brought freedom.
1:22.0	At 59, she feels more comfortable in her skin, more empowered and confident than she did decades ago in those famous
1:27.5	Calvin Clines. Now in Brook Shield does not allow to get old, she's changing the narrative about
1:33.0	women in aging. This is an era, insists Brooke, when women are reclaiming agency and power, not receding
1:39.1	into the shadows. These are the years when we get to decide how we want to live and when we get to
1:44.0	write our own stories.
1:46.2	Make sure to pick up, Brook Shield is not allowed to get old by Brooks Shields.
1:50.3	And thanks again to Flatiron Books for sponsoring this episode.
1:57.3	This episode is sponsored by The Scorpion Queen by Nina Fears.
2:01.4	Stick around after the show to hear an excerpt from the audiobook.
2:05.0	Once the daughter of a prosperous salt merchant, 16-year-old Amy now finds herself disinherited, framed for a scandalous crime, and forced to serve Princess Mariama of Mali.
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