Episode 28 - Maynard, Skulls and Keys, Fangirl or Stalker?
David Alan Richards author of Skulls and Keys: The Hidden Historyof Yale’s Secret Societies speaking at The Yale Bookstore
Episode Twenty Eight Show Notes
CW = Chris Wolak
EF = Emily Fine
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– Just Read –
The Twelve Lives of Samuel Hawley – Hannah Tinti (EF)
Glass Houses (Chief Inspector Armand Gamache #13) – Louise Penny (CW)
Unraveling Oliver – Liz Nugent (EF)
Too Afraid to Cry – Ali Cobby Eckermann (CW)
The Stuff That Never Happened – Maddie Dawson (EF)
– Currently Reading/Listening –
What Happened – Hillary Rodham Clinton (audio) (CW)
Jack’s Wife Freda: Cooking from New York’s West Village – Maya and Dean Jankelowitz (EF)
Collected Stories – Willa Cather (CW)
The Bright Hour: A Memoir of Living and Dying – Nina Riggs (EF)
ProBlogger: Secrets for Blogging Your Way to a Six-Figure Income – Darren Rowse (CW)
Joyce Maynard author of The Best of Us in conversation with Wally Lamb at RJ Julia's in Madison, CT.
– Biblio Adventures –
September 7 – Emily went to RJ Julia Madison to see Joyce Maynard author of The Best of Us
September 7 – Chris went to The Yale Bookstore to see David Alan Richards author of Skulls and Keys: The Hidden Historyof Yale’s Secret Societies
– Upcoming Jaunts –
September 15 – Chris and Emily will be heading to the New Haven Public library for a discussion with winners of the Windham-Campbell prize. Check out the winners of the Windham-Campbell prize here.
September 22-24 – Guilford Free Library Friends of the Library Annual Book and Bake Sale
– Upcoming Reads –
Morningstar: Growing Up with Books – Ann Hood (EF)
Sing, Unburied, Sing: A Novel – Jesmyn Ward (EF)
My Absolute Darling – Gabriel Tallent (EF)
– Also Mentioned –
New Editor in Chief of New York Style Magazine – Hanya Yanagihara author of A Little Life and The People in the Trees
Author Jamie Ford's book The Hotel on the Corner of Bitter and Sweet has been optioned for production by George Takei (George Takei was in the Broadway show Allegiance last year).
Wynema: A Child of a Forest – S. Alice Callahan, A. Lavonne Brown Ruoff
National Book Awards – 2017 Nonfiction Long List
Never Caught: The Washingtons’ Relentless Pursuit of Their Runaway Slave, Ona Judge – Erica Armstrong Dunbar
The Evangelicals: The Struggle to Shape America – Frances Fitzgerald
Locking Up Our Own: Crime and Punishment in Black America – James Forman, Jr.
The Future Is History: How Totalitarianism Reclaimed Russia – Masha Gessen
Killers of the Flower Moon: The Osage Murders and the Birth of the FBI – David Grann
No Is Not Enough: Resisting Trump’s Shock Politics and Winning the World We Need – Naomi Klein
Democracy in Chains: The Deep History of the Radical Right’s Stealth Plan for America – Nancy MacLean
The Color of Law: A Forgotten History of How Our Government Segregated America – Richard Rothstein
The Blood of Emmett Till – Timothy B. Tyson
Bunk: The Rise of Hoaxes, Humbug, Plagiarists, Phonies, Post-Facts, and Fake News – Kevin Young
Chris blog’s at Wildmoobooks.com