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All the Books!

All the Backlist! September 15, 2017

All the Books!

Book Riot

Fiction, Arts, Society & Culture, Books

4.6 • 1.2K Ratings

🗓️ 15 September 2017

⏱️ 12 minutes

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Summary

This week, Liberty discusses The Fire Next Time, The Unit, The Good Lord Bird, and more great older books. This episode was sponsored by Swing Time by Zadie Smith. 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: Little Fires Everywhere by Celeste Ng The Fire Next Time by James Baldwin The Fire This Time: A New Generation Speaks About Race by Jesmyn Ward Fire Season: Field Notes from a Wilderness Lookout by Philip Connors Girls on Fire by Robin Wasserman Fire Shut Up in My Bones by Charles M. Blow Touched with Fire: Manic-Depressive Illness and the Artistic Temperament by Kay Redfield Jamison What Matters Most is How Well You Walk Through the Fire by Charles Bukowski Another Fine Mess: Life on Tomorrow’s Moon by Pope Brock The Moon is a Harsh Mistress by Robert A. Heinlein Seveneves by Neal Stephenson Life as We Knew It by Susan Beth Pfeffer Radiance by Catherynne M. Valente Maggot Moon by Sally Gardner An Excess Male by Maggie Shen King The Unit by Ninni Holmqvist Children of Men by P.D. James Parable of the Sower by Octavia Butler When She Woke by Hillary Jordan Infomacracy by Malka Older Days Without End by Sebastian Barry Grace by Natashia Deón The Underground Railroad by Colson Whitehead The March by E.L. Doctorow The Good Lord Bird by James McBride The Alligators of Abraham by Robert Kloss The Killer Angels by Michael Shaara Junius and Albert’s Adventures in the Confederacy: A Civil War Odyssey by Peter Carlson Civil War Stories by Ambrose Bierce Tailchaser’s Song by Tad Williams Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0

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evolved with Intel Evo Platform. You're listening to all the backlist, a weekly show about books that are not new.

0:45.0

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

0:49.0

This is episode 13, and today I'm going to talk about a few great titles related to the week's new releases and more.

0:55.0

So hello, all you cats and kittens, I have so so so many books to tell you about today.

1:00.0

But before I get started, I want to tell you about today's sponsor. It is

1:04.0

swing time by Zady Smith, the New York Times best-selling novel that moves from

1:08.4

northwest London to West Africa telling the story of two childhood best friends from the multi-award winning author of White Teeth

1:15.5

and On Beauty, and it is now available in Paperback.

1:19.0

It follows the relationship between two best friends, both of whom dream of being dancers, from their childhood to present

1:24.5

day. It's set in London, West Africa, and New York City, and it takes a complex, in-depth look

1:29.6

at the struggles of race, class, and gender, which Zady Smith is a highly respected voice in those fields,

1:35.5

both in fiction and in non-fiction.

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This is her fifth novel and exciting news.

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She has a new collection of essays called Feel Free coming this February. So

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Mark your calendars New Zady Smith in 2018. So exciting. This is in paperback also

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exciting. So again it's swing time by Zady Smith,

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and we thank them for sponsoring.

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