Fall Culture Series: Books

The Brian Lehrer Show | Oct 23, 2017

Sarah McNally, owner of McNally Jackson Books on Prince Street, talks about what books she’s looking forward to this season.

Here are the books mentioned in the segment:

I Can't Breathe by Matt Taibbi

Go, Went, Gone by Jenny Erpenbeck

Selected Poems 1968-2014 by Paul Muldoon

The Power by Naomi Alderman

Madonna in a Fur Coat by Sabahattan Ali

Future Home of the Living God by Louise Erdrich

World Without Mind by Franklin Foer

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