All the Backlist! September 25, 2020
All the Books!
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🗓️ 25 September 2020
⏱️ 10 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | Relax. |
| 0:02.0 | Let the fact that you've woken up to a cold shower just wash over you. |
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| 0:18.6 | Repeat our mantra. |
| 0:21.6 | Home Care. |
| 0:25.0 | Such British Gas Home Care Cover, see website for terms. You're listening to all the backlist, a weekly show about books. |
| 0:37.0 | You're listening to all the backlist, a weekly show about books that are not new. |
| 0:46.0 | I'm Tears of Price coming to you from Brook Riot. |
| 0:49.0 | This is episode 278.5, and this week I'm going to be diving into the stacks to talk about two great |
| 0:54.2 | supernatural looks perfect for this spooky season especially if you like a |
| 0:58.8 | little 80s and 90s nostalgia. But first let's hear from our sponsor. Today's episode is brought to you by Gallery Books. |
| 1:07.0 | I'm super excited to talk about this next one. |
| 1:10.0 | It is by an author who has been doing the darn thing for Black American fiction, horror fiction for a while, Miss Tamanarive too. |
| 1:20.0 | So it's titled The Reformatory and it follows 12-year-old Robbie Stevens Jr who was sentenced to six months at the Grays town school for boys which is you guessed it a Reformatory |
| 1:30.3 | He sent there for kicking the son of the largest landowner in town in defense of his older sister Gloria. |
| 1:35.6 | So begins Robbie's journey further into the tears of the Jim Crow South and the very real horror of the school they call the reformatory. |
| 1:43.0 | So the reformatory is a haunting work of historical fiction, written as only American book |
| 1:48.1 | award-winning author Tanannerieve Duke could. She does this by piecing together the life of the relative her family never spoke of and |
| 1:54.9 | bringing his tragedy and those of so many others at the infamous Dozier School for Boys to Light. |
| 2:01.2 | So pick up the reformatory by Tanan Reeve Do, and thanks again to Gallery Books for sponsoring this episode. |
| 2:07.0 | Today's episode is brought to you by Gallery Books. I'm super excited to talk about this next one. It is by an author who has been doing the darn thing for Black American fiction, horror fiction, for a while, |
| 2:25.0 | a while, Miss Tananarive do. |
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