This episode we discuss the American Library Association Annual Conference and the many galleys we got there! We talk about wrestling, ballet, leeches, cancer, demons, opium, boobs (twice!), Soviet magic, and much more. Plus: A super secret podcast guest!

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In this episode

Anna Ferri | Matthew Murray | Steve Thomas from the Circulation Ideas podcast

Advanced Reader Copies from ALA

(Dates of publication are what we have available as of the recording of this episode and may change.)

• Giant Days by Non Pratt (Aug. 21, 2018)
• The Dreamers by Karen Thompson Walker (Jan. 15 2019)
• • Anna really wishes she got this one 🙁
• No Place to Go: How Public Toilets Fail Our Private Needs by Lezlie Lowe (Sep. 1, 2018)
• Batman: White Knight by Sean Murphy and Matt Hollingsworth (Oct., 2018)
• • DC Black Label
• Drawn to Berlin: Comic Workshops in Refugee Shelters and Other Stories from a New Europe by Ali Fitzgerald (Oct. 16, 2018)
• Minding the Store: A Big Story about a Small Business by Julie Gaines and Ben Lenovitz (Oct. 30, 2018)
• The War in the Dark by Nick Setchfield (Jul. 17, 2018)
• Breach by W. L. Goodwater (Nov. 6, 2018)
• Burning Down the Haus: Punk Rock, Revolution, and the Fall of the Berlin Wall by Tim Mohr (Sep. 11, 2018)
• The Governesses by Anne Serre, translated by Mark Hutchinson (English edition Sep. 25, 2018, in French 1992)
• The Travelling Cat Chronicles by Hiro Arikawa, translated by Philip Gabriel (English edition Oct. 23, 2018, in Japanese 2012)
• Sheets by Brenna Thummler (Aug. 28, 2018)
• Archival Quality by Ivy Noelle Weir and Steenz (already published)

Interlude

Special guest, Steve Thomas from the Circulating Ideas podcast!

• The Matthew Noe that Steve mentions in relation to a program on graphic medicine was actually interviewed on the Circulating Ideas podcast in May. Check it out!
• Here’s a video of the full conversation between Michelle Obama and Carla Hayden (Librarian of Congress)
• Becoming by Michelle Obama (Nov. 13, 2018)
• I Lost My Tooth! By Mo Willems (Oct. 2, 2018)
• Beautiful Bad by Annie Ward (Mar. 19, 2019)

End Interlude

• Temper by Nicky Drayden (Aug. 7, 2018)
• The Good Demon by Jimmy Cajoleas (Sep. 18, 2018)
• Kill the Farm Boy by Delilah S. Dawson and Kevin Hearne (Jul. 24, 2018)
• Hocus & Pocus: The Comic Book You Can Play! By Manuro and Gorobei (Sep. 4, 2018)
• Banana Sunday by Paul Tobin and Colleen Coover (Oct. 23, 2018)
• King of Strong Style: 1980-2014 by Shinsuke Nakamura, translated by Jocelyne Allen (Aug, 2018)
• Dopesick: Dealers, Doctors, and the Drug Company that Addicted America by Beth Macy (Aug. 7, 2018)
• No Ashes in the Fire: Coming of Age Black and Free in America by Darnell L. Moore (already published)
• The Souls of Yellow Folk: Essays by Wesley Yang (Oct. 9, 2018)
• How to Invent Everything: A Survival Guide for the Stranded Time Traveler by Ryan North (Sep. 18, 2018)
• Do No Harm: Dangerous historical medical treatments from the New Orleans Pharmacy Museum Permanent Collection by Kate Lacour
• • Obtained from the super awesome little New Orleans Pharmacy Museum
• About Betty’s Boob by by Vero Cazot and  Julie Rocheleau (already published)
• Upgrade Soul by Ezra Claytan Daniels (Sep. 18, 2018)
• Meg, Jo, Beth, Amy: The Story of Little Women and Why It Still Matters by Anne Boyd Rioux (Aug. 21, 2018)
• Astounding: John W. Campbell, Isaac Asimov, Robert A. Heinlein, L. Ron Hubbard, and the Golden Age of Science Fiction by Alec Nevala-Lee (Oct. 23, 2018)
• Black Flags, Blue Waters: The Epic History of America’s Most Notorious Pirates by Eric Jay Dolin (Sep. 18, 2018)
• How the Internet Happened: From Netscape to the iPhone by Brian McCullough (Oct. 23, 2018)

Matthew’s Posters

• A Clog in the Pipe: Data Collection and Transformation Issues in a Library Infrastructure Pilot
• Space for Listening: Using a library unConference as an alternative method of communication

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