This week, Liberty and Rebecca discuss Her Body and Other Parties, We Were Eight Years in Power, Manhattan Beach, and more books.

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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

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