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All the Books!

All the Backlist! June 1, 2018

All the Books!

Book Riot

Fiction, Arts, Society & Culture, Books

4.6 • 1.2K Ratings

🗓️ 1 June 2018

⏱️ 10 minutes

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Summary

This week, Liberty discusses The Mothers, The Sisters Brothers, and more great older books. This week’s episode was sponsored by American Fire: Love, Arson, and Life in a Vanishing Land by Monica Hesse. 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: She Has Her Mother’s Laugh: The Powers, Perversions, and Potential of Heredity by Carl Zimmer My Brother Moochie: Regaining Dignity in the Face of Crime, Poverty, and Racism in the American South by Issac J. Bailey The Sisters Brothers by Patrick deWitt Daughter of the Pirate King by Tricia Levenseller All Aunt Hagar’s Children: Stories by Edward P. Jones Mother Bruce by Ryan Higgins The Good Daughter by Karin Slaughter The Brothers K by David James Duncan The Mothers by Brit Bennett Catstronauts: Mission Moon by Drew Brockington Target Practice (Cleopatra in Space 1) by Mike Maihack Binky the Space Cat by Ashley Spires Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0

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0:24.0

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0:30.0

You're listening to all the backlist, a weekly show about books that are not new. I'm your host, Liberty Hardy,

0:37.0

and I'm little in the middle, but I've got much backlist. This is episode 48, and today I'm going to talk about a few great titles related to the week's new releases and more.

0:46.0

So hello out there in listener land. How's everyone doing today?

0:51.0

It has been a beautiful week. There are lots of great books to read. Lots of great

0:54.9

books to tell you about. Before I do that, I want to remind you that you can sign up to win a $500 gift

1:01.7

card to the bookstore of your choice, any bookstore that you want, as long as it's not fictional.

1:08.0

And it's $500. You go to bookriot.com slash bookstore 500 500 to enter.

1:15.0

It goes until June 21st, or I should say

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it's open until June 21st.

1:19.6

So go to the website and enter there.

1:21.8

And I want to also tell you that today's episode is brought

1:24.9

to you by Monica Hese's American Fire Love Arson in Life in a vanishing land

1:29.4

from Live Right publishing. The Ar arson started on the cold November evening

1:33.7

and didn't stop for months.

1:35.0

Night after night, the people of a desolate, a comic county

1:38.0

waited to see which abandoned building would burn down next.

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