Description

In this pilot episode of Dear Literature, Vanessa and Alyssa discuss the books releasing in the second half of 2020 that they're excited for.

Music by Ben Sulzinsky

Books Mentioned:

Food Anatomy: The Curious Parts & Pieces of Our Edible World by Julia Rothman with help from Rachel Wharton (Storey Publishing)

Urban Temple by David McCann (Bo-Leaf Books)

The King of Crows by Libba Bray (Little, Brown and Company)

Or What You Will by Jo Walton (Tor Books)

Axiom’s End by Lindsay Ellis (St. Martin’s Press)

I Hold a Wolf by the Ears by Laura van de Berg (FSG)

Must I Go by Yiyun Li (Random House)

Finna: Poems by Nate Marshall (One World)

The Unreality of Memory: And Other Essays by Elisa Gabbert (FSG Originals)

World of Wonders: In Praise of Fireflies, Whale Sharks, and Other Astonishments by Aimee Nezhukumatathil(Milkweed Editions)

Ace: What Asexuality Reveals About Desire, Society, and the Meaning of Sex by Angela Chen (Beacon Press)

The Left-Handed Booksellers of London by Garth Nix (Katherine Tegen Books)

Fifty Words for Rain by Asha Lemmie (Dutton)

Skyhunter by Marie Lu (Roaring Book Press)

Stuff You Should Know: An Incomplete Compendium of Mostly Interesting Things by Josh Clark and Chuck Bryant (Flatiron Books)

Bestiary by K-Ming Chang (One World)

The Invisible Life of Addie LaRue by V.E. Schwab (Tor Books)

Eartheater: A Novel by Dolores Reyes, trans. Julia Sanches (HarperVia)

Wound from the Mouth of a Wound by torrin a. greathouse (Milkweed Editions)

Ninth House by Leigh Bardugo (Flatiron Books)

Lovely War by Julie Berry (Penguin Young Readers Group) 

Other notes:

Kaveh Akbar

Danez Smith

Clint Smith

Franny Choi

Kundiman