All the Books! All the Backlist! October 13, 2017
This week, Liberty discusses Pastoralia, The Farming of Bones, Jenny and the Jaws of Life, and more great older books.
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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
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