Ep. 239: Snuggle Up With A New Stack w/sweetpea flaherty
EQ: If you could build the perfect fall reading stack, which new releases would have to be in it, and what do they say about this year's reading season?
Guest: sweetpea flaherty–whom you may know from our previous book episodes such as on Ep. 238: Insecurity Maxxing, Ep 214: Shelf Awareness, Ep 196: New Year Fresh Reads,Ep 186: Pumpkin Spice & Bookish Advice and Ep 184: Hot & Steamy Summer Reads.
Apertiff/Digestif
Rise and Fall of the Artificial State, Jill Lepore
Birthing Tree, Amanda Peters
Crossing the Wine-Dark Sea:Journeys Through Ancient Literature, Emily Wilson
The Disappearers, Marlon James
Taipei Story, R.F. Kuang
Rouse, China Miéville
Dead Beat, Leigh Bardugo
End Times Fascism: And the Fight for the Living World, Astra Taylor and Naomi Klein
Mestra, Madeline Miller
No Land to Stand on: Notes from Detention, Mahmoud Khalil
American Hagwon, Min Jin Lee
Partita, Barbara Kingsolver
Sleeping Beauties: Why Good Ideas Go Dormant and How They Wake Up, David Byrne
Every Story Is a Love Story, Imbolo Mbue
Other Worlds Than These, Stephen King & Peter Straub
As You Wake, Break the Shell, Becky Chambers
Cider
Cemetery Boys: Espíritu, Aiden Thomas
Mazywood, Tananarive Due
Huey P. Newton: I am We, Delio Vasquez
Fictional Selves, Kyle MacLachlan
We, Layli Long Soldier
Off the Reservation, Stephen Graham Jones
Realmsweep, H.E. Edgmon
Hot Toddy
Sex and Dissent: Stories of Feminist Resistance in Argentina, Chile, Mexico, and Spain, Meaghan Beatley
Triage, Claudia Rankine
Nest of Tongues, Randy Ribay
53 Days: How Hitler Dismantled a Democracy, Timothy W. Ryback
Songs My Mother Taught Me: Why the Artist Must Take Sides, Saul Williams
Our Cut of Salt, Deena Helm
We Radiant Things: Notes on Being Alien and Becoming Cyborg, Franny Choi
Egg Nog
Record Journey Vol.2, Ryoichiro Kezuka
The Strangers, Naomi Alderman
Quaint Folk, Bitter Karella
Showbiz!: My Life as a Middle-Aged Man, Murray Hill
Public Access Afterworld, Jane Schoenbrun
Waiter: An Interactive Story, Kwan Ann Tan
We Were Here: A History of Black People and Alternative Music, Stephanie Phillips
Do Your Fudging Homework
Annie: I’m going to encourage everyone to start their own little private book review.
Hope: Join Storygraph and add me @espionfire
sweepea: track down a local artist and support them directly