This week, Liberty discusses Pastoralia, The Farming of Bones, Jenny and the Jaws of Life, and more great older books. This episode was sponsored by Penguin Random House Audio. 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: Salvage the Bones by Jesmyn Ward Sing, Unburied, Sing by Jesmyn Ward The Sympathizer by Viet Thanh Nyguen Refugees by Viet Thanh Ngyuen Pastoralia by George Saunders Complications: A Surgeon’s Notes on an Imperfect Science by Atul Gawande The Collected Stories of Deborah Eisenberg by Deborah Eisenberg Blood Meridian by Cormac McCarthy Kindred by Octavia Butler A Supposedly Fun Thing I’ll Never Do Again by David Foster Wallace Infinite Jest by David Foster Wallace Ship Fever: Stories by Andrea Barrett The Intuitionist by Colson Whitehead The Farming of Bones by Edwidge Danticat Elect Mr. Robinson for a Better World by Donald Antrim As She Climbed Across the Table by Jonathan Lethem A Midwife’s Tale: The Life of Martha Ballard, Based on Her Diary, 1785-1812 by Laurel Thatcher Ulrich Jenny and the Jaws of Life: Short Stories by Jincy Willett Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
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