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Book Riot

Fiction, Arts, Society & Culture, Books

4.6 • 1.2K Ratings

🗓️ 24 May 2016

⏱️ 43 minutes

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Summary

This week, Liberty and Rebecca discuss Sweetbitter, How to Make White People Laugh, The Queue, and more new releases. This episode was sponsored by Send Me Swooning, Smoke by Dan Vyleta, and ThirdLove. Subscribe to All the Books! using RSS or iTunes 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. For a complete list of books discussed in this episode, visit our website. Books discussed on the show: Sweetbitter by Stephanie Danler How to Make White People Laugh by Negin Farsad Dear Fang, with Love by Rufi Thorpe Dinner with Edward: A Story of an Unexpected Friendship by Isabel Vincent Happy Family by Tracy Barone (R)evolution: The Girls Write Now 2016 Anthology edited by Molly MacDermot The Queue by Basma Abdel Aziz (Author), Elisabeth Jaquette (Translator) The Language of Food: A Linguist Reads the Menu by Dan Jurafsky What we’re reading: I’m Judging You: The Do-Better Manual by Luvvie Ajayi Grunt: The Curious Science of Humans at War by Mary Roach Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0

This episode is brought to you by Pepsi Max. Christmas is great, but there's loads of ways to make it better.

0:08.0

Like sneaking some chili into the gravy for some extra oint, or building a playlist that will even get your

0:14.8

none up on the table or just cracking open an ice cold Pepsi Max.

0:20.1

Christmas.

0:23.0

Better with Pepsi Max. You're listening to all the books, a weekly show of recommendations and enthusiasm regarding the week's new book releases.

0:43.9

This is episode 55 and today we are talking about books released on May 24th, 2016.

0:49.7

I'm Liberty Hardy here is my fellow well redhead Rebecca Shinsky and we're coming to you from

0:53.6

book Riot.com hey hey it's been like two weeks since we actually recorded together

1:00.4

but it's only been a week since we saw each other. That's true. And I'm ready. I can totally drive episode 55. We are back from BBA. We're not...

1:11.0

2%? I'm still trying to catch up on work I know you are too.

1:15.8

We are back in body if not in spirit.

1:19.1

Yes we made it back and that is what counts because my bus ride was so horrible.

1:23.0

There was, it was questionable there for a while.

1:25.0

Was she actually going to return?

1:28.0

There were so many people that followed it along on Twitter

1:31.0

as I was driving out to Chicago and when I got there they were like,

1:34.0

we didn't think you're going to make it.

1:36.0

Right, there was the great, I didn't think I was going to make it.

1:38.0

The great Liberty bus adventure.

1:40.0

And then like the funniest thing of BEA this year, least for you and me I think was getting mistaken for each other or at least I got mistaken for you like four times including once by someone who's known me for seven years.

1:52.0

Oh, I didn't hear that, but yes, I was mistaken for you as well.

1:56.8

But I put a picture of me and Amanda from one of the BEA parties on the book

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