Content: In this episode, we offer our summer reading picks and discuss some disturbing library news. You can links to the books we discussed in the content notes below.

Cast
Hosted by Dean Karpowicz with Alley Ryan and Molly Krasel.

Content Discussed

Alley’s Picks
Doing Oral History by Donald A. Ritchie & Managing Archives: Foundations, Principles and Practice by Caroline Williams
Fruits Basket by Natsuki Takaya
Lord of the Silent by Elizabeth Peters
The Coming-Down Time by Joan Oppenheimer
Zero Tolerance by Alexander Slavros (This one is something else. AltRight and neo nazis warning)

Alley’s Picks
A Memory Called Empire by Arkady Martine (for our interview!)
Chasing Danger by Richard C White
A Thousand Beginnings and Endings, edited by Ellen Oh and Elsie Chapman
Annihilation by Jeff VanderMeer

Dean’s Picks
The Poppy War by RF Kuang
Murderbot Diaries by Martha Wells (actually 4 novellas, not a trilogy!)
Fall; or Dodge in Hell by Neal Stephenson
Infinite Jest by David Foster Wallace
Augmented Human byHelen Papagiannis

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