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All the Books!

All The Backlist! July 29, 2022

All the Books!

Book Riot

Fiction, Society & Culture, Books, Arts

4.6 • 1.2K Ratings

🗓️ 29 July 2022

⏱️ 12 minutes

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Summary

This week, Kelly talks about three nonfiction reads that will contextualize the current book ban movement–and only one of them is about book censorship. Subscribe to All the Books! using RSS, Apple Podcasts, Spotify, or Stitcher 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 MENTIONED: Book Banning in the 21st Century by Emily Knox Cultish by Amanda Montell Dark Money by Jane Mayer Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Transcript

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0:00.0

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

0:15.8

I'm your host Kelli Jensen, this is the July 29th, 2022 edition, and today I'm going

0:20.7

to talk about three really vital books to read for understanding this current moment

0:25.7

in bookbans, and only one of these books is about bookbans, but they all sort of give

0:32.4

really interesting insight into this particular moment.

0:38.4

Today's episode is brought to you by Poisoned Pin Press.

0:41.9

So Don's shift is strange.

0:43.8

At least that's what everyone thinks at VIXT, the nutritional supplement company, where

0:47.1

Don works as an accountant.

0:49.1

She never says the right thing.

0:50.5

She has no friends, and she's always at her desk at precisely 8.45 am.

0:55.6

So when Don doesn't show up to the office one morning, her coworker, Natalie Farrell,

0:59.7

beautiful popular top sales rep five years running, is surprised.

1:04.4

And then she receives an unsettling anonymous phone call that changes everything.

1:08.8

It turns out Don wasn't just an awkward outsider.

1:11.3

She was being targeted by someone close.

1:13.7

And now Natalie is irrevocably tied to Don as she finds herself caught in a twisted

1:18.0

game of cat and mouse that leads her wondering who's the real victim.

1:23.0

Pick up the coworker by Frida McFadden, who is a New York Times bestselling author known

1:28.3

for her mind-bending commercial thrillers like The Housemaid and The Housemaid's Secret.

1:33.5

And thanks again to Poisoned Pin Press for sponsoring this episode.

1:41.8

Today's episode is brought to you by Harper Voyager.

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