Brian Laird on WNYC, and we will end today's show as we've been ending all the shows during this membership drive with our summer fun series.

So far, most of what we've talked about in terms of summer

arts and culture previews are things happening around town. Today, it's going to be about

summer books, that wonderful culture that you can carry with you to the beach or to the couch.

And we're lucky enough to be joined by WNYC's own Jordan Lough, a producer for all of it and its book club, Get Lit with All of It. Hey, Jordan, welcome back to this show. Thanks so much for having me, Brian. So let's start with the Get Lit with All of It book event coming up. It's going to be Tuesday hosted by you. What's the book and where can people find out about the event? Yeah, so the book is

Memory Piece by Lisa Coe. It's a New York-based story, which is always great if you're

looking to get in the mood, support our city here. It's about three friends trying to make

their dreams come true in New York. It starts all the way in the 80s. One friend's a performance

artist. One is a coder.

Another is a community activist fighting gentrification. And then the plot takes you all the way from

the 1980s up through this futuristic, I would say, dystopian version of our city in 2040. So you get to

really see how the city changes from the 80s to the 90s to the dot com boom and burst

and then all the way to 2040 so the event as you mentioned is on tuesday at 6 p.m. It's at the

Stavros New Yorkos Foundation Library and people can still get their tickets. They're free. You can go to

WNYC.org slash get lit to go reserve your tickets.

Another book out now that you flagged for us that you want to talk about is the Ministry of Time by Calane Bradley.

Yeah, so this is a fun time travel romance, but the catch is that the characters who are traveling through time are coming to present day. So this is

about a man named Graham Gore, who was a real historical figure from the failed Franklin expedition.

If people watch the AMC show the terror, they might know what I'm talking about. It was a polar

expedition in like the 1700s looking for a Northwest Passage. He is pulled into modern day London through a government agency, and he's assigned this

woman who is going to sort of be his bridge to the modern day, who's going to teach him

about 21st century, help him discover things like Spotify.

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