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All the Books!

All the Backlist! May 13, 2022

All the Books!

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Fiction, Arts, Society & Culture, Books

4.61.2K Ratings

🗓️ 13 May 2022

⏱️ 13 minutes

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Summary

This week, Trisha recommends two non-fiction books about how we talk and write about culture and politics in the United States. 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 Discussed What Were We Thinking: A Brief Intellectual History of the Trump Era by Carlos Lozada What You Are Getting Wrong About Appalachia by Elizabeth Catte 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.

0:16.4

I'm your host, Risha Brown, and this is episode 361.5.

0:21.9

And if you're thinking, who are you and what have you done with all of the hosts I know

0:25.7

and love?

0:26.7

Fair enough.

0:27.7

I'm actually new to the Backlist Club, but I've been co-hosting Book Rites when in romance

0:31.6

podcasts for the last three or four years with the wonderful Jess Pride.

0:36.2

I love doing that show, and also I'm very excited to be here to get to talk about some of

0:41.1

the other genres that I love in other books in those genres.

0:44.8

So for example, today I'm going to talk to you a little bit about a couple of non-fiction

0:49.6

Backlist titles.

0:51.1

More specifically, there were both books about the political cultural landscape in the

0:56.0

US, and even more specifically, their books about books about that landscape.

1:01.4

So we will do that in just a minute, but before we do, let's thank our All the Backlist

1:06.1

Sponsors.

1:07.1

Today's episode is brought to you by Image Comics.

1:12.6

New York Times bestselling writer, Jeff Lamir, Matt Kent, and internationally acclaimed

1:16.8

artist David Rubin, unite for the upcoming graphic novel Cosmic Detective.

1:22.0

This is an epic science fiction mystery that asks, when a god is murdered, who solves

1:26.8

the crime?

1:27.8

So the murder of a god threatens to tear apart the very fabric of reality, and only one

1:31.6

detective stands in the way of under-destruction.

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