Episode 113 - We Bid Adieu to Our First Recording Studio
Click here to watch a video of the cottage by the sea (aka our recording studio).
Episode One Hundred Thirteen Show Notes
KEY: CW = Chris Wolak and EF = Emily Fine
– Currently Reading –
Pine – Francine Toon (CW)
The Invisible Life of Addie Larue – V.E. Schwab (EF) release date 10/6/2020
We Need to Talk: A Memoir About Wealth – Jennifer Risher (CW)
All My Puny Sorrows – Miriam Toews (EF)
– Just Read –
Magic Lessons – Alice Hoffman (EF) release date 10/6/2020
The Marrow Thieves – Cherie Dimaline (CW)
The First to Lie – Hank Phillippi Ryan (EF)
Bury My Heart at Chuck E. Cheese’s – Tiffany Midge (CW)
– Biblio (Couch) Adventures –
Chris watched the documentary The Booksellers via the streaming service Kanopy.
Emily watched a virtual event via Skylark Bookshop with Christina Baker Kline discussing her new book, The Exiles. She was in conversation with Alex George, the owner of the bookshop, founder of The Unbound Book Festival and author of The Paris Hours and Setting Free the Kites.
Chris attended a virtual event via The Center for Fiction titled Radical Translantions: Maria Dahvana Headley, Emily Wilson, and Madeline Miller. Maria Dahvana Headley has a new translation of Beowulf.
Chris and Emily went on a virtual joint jaunt to the Schomburg Center Literary Festival. The event was titled Audre Lorde and Political Warfare and featured Roxane Gay, Mahogany L. Browne, Tracy K. Smith, and Salamishah Tillet.
Chris attended a virtual event through the New York Society Library with S.A. Cosby author of Blacktop Wasteland.
– Upcoming Jaunts –
Emily is looking forward to The American Dream: Whose Myth? Whose Reality? with Min Jin Lee and Viet Thanh Nguyen. October 1 at 7pm (ET). You can register for it here.
Chris plans to attend a Monday’s at the Beinecke Library about Langston Hughes. On October 5th they will focus on Dorothy Porter Wesley. You can see the calendar of events here.
The Charleston to Charleston Literary Festival will be virtual this year, running November 6-15, 2020.
Check out Our Mystery Man, John Valeri’s, YouTube channel Central Booking. His newest episode is with Heather Harper Ellett, author of Ain’t Nobody Nobody. You can watch the Book Cougars on Central Booking here.
– Upcoming Reads –
The Secret Lives of Church Ladies – Deesha Philyaw (EF)
A Girl is a Body of Water – Jennifer Nansubuga Makumbi (EF)
Southern Cross Crime: The Pocket Essential Guide to Crime Fiction, Film & TV of Australia and New Zealand – Craig Sisterson (CW)
Celestial Bodies – Jokha Alharthi (translated by Marilyn Booth) (CW)
– 15th Readalong discussion –
Celestial Bodies – Jokha Alharthi (translated by Marilyn Booth)
The discussion will drop on November 10th via Episode 116, please get questions/comments to us by November 5th.
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– Also Mentioned –
The Storygraph
Goodreads
Bloody Scotland
Empire of Wild – Cherie Dimaline
Confederacy of Dunces – John Kennedy Toole
Catch 22 – Joseph Heller
Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur’s Court – Mark Twain
The New York International Antiquarian Book Fair
Goulet Pen Company
Ink and Paper Blog
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