This week, Liberty and Rebecca discuss Her Body and Other Parties, We Were Eight Years in Power, Manhattan Beach, and more books. This episode was sponsored by Lighter Than My Shadow and 27 Hours. 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: Her Body and Other Parties: Stories by Carmen Maria Machado Nasty Women: Feminism, Resistance, and Revolution in Trump’s America by Samhita Mukhopadhyay and Kate Harding (editors) Malagash by Joey Comeau We Were Eight Years in Power: An American Tragedy by Ta-Nehisi Coates Manhattan Beach by Jennifer Egan Origin by Dan Brown Reservoir 13: A Novel by Jon McGregor Talking as Fast as I Can: From Gilmore Girls to Gilmore Girls (and Everything in Between) by Lauren Graham Best American Short Stories 2017 edited by Meg Wolitzer The Vanderbeekers of 141st Street by Karina Glaser This Is How It Begins: A Novel by Joan Dempsey An Unkindness of Ghosts by Rivers Solomon Going Into Town: A Love Letter to New York by Roz Chast Baking with Kafka by Tom Gauld The Last Ballad by Wiley Cash That Inevitable Victorian Thing by E.K. Johnston The Glass Eye: A Memoir by Jeannie Vanasco Fresh Complaint: Stories by Jeffrey Eugenides The Tiger’s Daughter (Their Bright Ascendency) by K Arsenault Rivera What we’re reading: The Merry Spinster: Tales of Everyday Horror by Mallory Ortberg Altered Traits: Science Reveals How Meditation Changes Your Mind, Brain, and Body by Daniel Goleman and Richard J. Davidson Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
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