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This week, Liberty discusses The Fire Next Time, The Unit, The Good Lord Bird, and more great older books.

This episode was sponsored by Swing Time by Zadie Smith.

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Books discussed on the show:

Little Fires Everywhere by Celeste Ng

The Fire Next Time by James Baldwin

The Fire This Time: A New Generation Speaks About Race by Jesmyn Ward

Fire Season: Field Notes from a Wilderness Lookout by Philip Connors

Girls on Fire by Robin Wasserman

Fire Shut Up in My Bones by Charles M. Blow

Touched with Fire: Manic-Depressive Illness and the Artistic Temperament by Kay Redfield Jamison

What Matters Most is How Well You Walk Through the Fire by Charles Bukowski

Another Fine Mess: Life on Tomorrow’s Moon by Pope Brock

The Moon is a Harsh Mistress by Robert A. Heinlein

Seveneves by Neal Stephenson

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