Episode 110 - Author Spotlight with Caroline Leavitt
Episode One Hundred Ten Show Notes
KEY: CW = Chris Wolak and EF = Emily Fine
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– Episode 110 GIVEAWAY –
The Best New True Crime Stories: Small Towns – edited by Mitzi Szereto
If I Never Find You – Mhairi McFarlane
The Deep – Alma Katsu
Mexican Gothic – Silvia Moreno-Garcia
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– Currently Reading –
A House is a Body – Shruti Swamy (EF)
Forever Amber – Kathleen Winsor (CW)
– Just Read –
The Jane Austen Society – Natalie Jenner (EF)
Eat Joy: Stories & Comfort Food from 31 Celebrated Writers – edited Natalie Eve Garrett (EF)
Intimations: Six Essays – Zadie Smith (EF)
Looking for Lorraine: The Radiant and Radical Life of Lorraine Hansberry – Imani Perry (CW)(audio)
Anxious People – Fredrik Backman (EF) release date September 8, 2020
– Biblio Adventures –
Emily had a Couch Biblio Adventure watching Bonnie Tsui, author of Why We Swim, the book choice for the La Times Book Club. The conversation included Lynne Cox, author of Swimming to Antarctica: Tales of a Long-Distance Swimmer. You can watch the event here.
Our plans to attend the Schomburg Center event hosting Isabel Wilkerson author of Caste: The Origins of Our Discontents and The Warmth of Other Suns were interrupted by a tropical storm. Thankfully it was recorded, you can watch the recording here. Chris also listened to Wilkerson’s interview on the NY Times Book review Podcast. You can listen to the episode here.
– Upcoming Jaunts –
We are going on a joint jaunt to the Hachette Book Club Brunch. It will be virtual this year. Join us on Saturday, October 17 from 10:30–1:00. You can purchase tickets here.
August 18th at 7:30 via the Brooklyn Historical Society, Women + Power: Body Power with Jennifer Finney Boylan and Tressie McMillan Cottom. You can purchase tickets here.
September 1 at 8:00 Yaa Gyasi in conversation with Roxane Gay discussing her book Transcendent Kingdom via Pen America series. You can purchase tickets here.
– Upcoming Reads –
Sea Wife – Amity Gaige (EF)
Betty – Tiffany McDaniel (EF)
From Here to Eternity – James Jones (CW)
– Author Spotlight with Caroline Leavitt –
We chat about her new book With or Without You.
Follow Caroline and her book tour here.
Check out A Mighty Blaze for information about new release books and author tricks of the trade here.
– Also Mentioned –
Book by Book 2020 Big Book Summer
Gone with the Wind – Margaret Mitchell
Cher Ami and Major Whittlesey – Kathleen Rooney
Persuasion – Jane Austen
James Baldwin
Nina Simone
Malcolm X
Langston Hughes
W.E.B. Dubois
Molly Malone Cook
A Man Called Ove – Fredrik Backman
Thick: And Other Essays – Tressie McMillan Cottom
From Here to Eternity movie
John Irving
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