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

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

This is episode 37, and today I'm going to talk about a few great titles related to the week's new releases and more

So hello all you out there in your listening land I have a themey show today. You know how I love a theme. But before I can tell you about that, I want to tell you about today's sponsor. It is Bring Out the Dog by Will Mackin.

The 11 stories in Will Mackin's mesmerizing debut collection draw from his many deployments

with a Special Operations Task Force in Iraq and Afghanistan.

They began as notes he jotted on the inside of his forearm and grease pencil and later as bullet points on the torn off flap of an M. R.

Years later, he used those journals to write this book.

Told without a trace of false provado and with a keen sense of the absurd

bring out the dog manages to capture the tragedy and heroism

the degradation and exaltation in the smallest details of war. George Saunders

calls this a near-miraculous brilliant debut

a National Book Award winning author of Redeployment Phil K. Clay, I should say,

raves. Will Macken maps the surreal psychological terrain of soldiers in a perpetual war.

So again, that is Bring Out the Dog by Will Macken, and it's on sale now from Random House,

wherever books are sold. And it is at the top of my list of

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