This week, Liberty discusses The Mezzanine, Passing, Transmetropolitan, and more great older books. This episode was sponsored by Libby, Overdrive’s new reading app. 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: The Tragedy of Brady Sims by Ernest J. Gaines The Mezzanine by Nicholson Baker The Solace of Open Spaces by Gretel Ehrlich A Match to the Heart: One Woman’s Story of Being Struck by Lightning by Gretel Ehrlich Everything You and I Could Have Been If We Weren’t You and I by Albert Espinosa So Long, See You Tomorrow by William Maxwell Passing by Nella Larsen A Jello Horse by Matthew Simmons The Black Spider (New York Review Books Classics) by Jeremias Gotthelf, Susan Bernofsky (Translator) Grief is the Thing with Feathers by Max Porter Nip the Buds, Shoot the Kids by Kenzaburo Oe The Man Who Was Thursday by G. K. Chesterton I Await the Devil’s Coming by Mary MacLane Salsa Nocturna by Daniel José Older Bartleby the Scrivener by Herman Melville The Cat Inside by William S. Burroughs The Fur Person by May Sarton Binti by Nnedi Okoraor The Brief and Frightening Reign of Phil by George Saunders Too Loud a Solitude by Bohumil Hrabal Springtime: A Ghost Story by Michelle de Kretser Fatale by Jean-Patrick Manchette Transmetropolitan by Warren Ellis, Darick Robertson (Artist) Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
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