Episode 121 - Author Spotlight with Jason Pinter

Episode One Hundred Twenty One Show Notes
KEY: CW = Chris Wolak and EF = Emily Fine

You can read our Blog Post with Jungle Red Writers, Standing Ovation for The Book Cougars, here.

Check out a conversation with author Penny Goetjen on John Valeri’s Central Booking, episode 35.

You can see the amazing list of our LISTENER TOP TENS on our bookshop.org page.

– Currently Reading –
Mill Town: Reckoning with What Remains – Kerri Arsenault (EF)
The Shipping News – E. Annie Proulx (CW)
Leaving Isn’t the Hardest Thing: Essays – Lauren Hough (EF) release date 4/13/2021

– Just Read –
Finlay Donovan is Killing It: A Mystery – Elle Cosimano (EF) release date 2/2/21
The House on Vesper Sands – Paraic O’ Donnell (CW)
Hamnet – Maggie O’ Farrell (EF)
The Archivist – Martha Cooley (CW)
Meet Me at the Cupcake Cafe: A Novel in Recipes – Jenny Colgan (EF)
Practical Magic – Alice Hoffman (CW)
Group: How One Therapist and a Circle of Strangers Saved My Life – Christie Tate (EF)
Country Place – Ann Petry (CW)
Come to Me – Amy Bloom (EF)

– (Couch) Biblio Adventures –
Emily watched the movie In the Name of the Father based on the book Proved Innocent: The Story of Gerry Conlon of the Guildford Four by Gerry Conlon and David Pallister.

– Upcoming Jaunts –
Emily is attending the book launch for author Matthew Dicks new novel, The Other Mother.

January 21, 2020 – Chris plans to attend a Zoom event via Breakwater Books with author Anne Gardner Perkins discussing her book Yale Needs Women: How the First Group of Girls Rewrote the Rules of an Ivy League Giant.

January 28, 2020 10pm (EST) – Chris has signed up for an event via Copperfield Books with Barbara Lane in conversation with Jane Smiley about her new book Perestroika in Paris.

– Upcoming Reads –
A Thousand Acres – Jane Smiley (CW)
The Survivors – Jane Harper (CW) release date 2/2/21
Cuyahoga – Pete Beatty (EF)
Still Crazy – Judy Prescott Marshall (EF)

– Author Spotlight with Jason Pinter –
Jason is an author and editor / founder of Polis Books.
The newest book in his Rachel Marin series, A Stranger at the Door, is available now!
You can learn more about Jason and his book events here.

When responding to our question regarding Thomas & Mercer Publishing, Jason mentions the following authors:
Mark Osaki
Sean Chercover
Christopher Rice
Hilary Davidson

– 16th Readalong discussion –
Mill Town: Reckoning with What Remains by Kerri Arsenault
The discussion will drop on February 16th via Episode 123, please get questions/comments to us by February 11th.
The Goodreads discussion thread can be found HERE.
The Zoom discussion will take place on Sunday, Feb 7th at 7:00 p.m. (EST). If you would like to join us please send an email to save a spot.

– Also Mentioned –
Jungle Red Writers
The Dutch House – Ann Patchett
Transcendent Kingdom – Yaa Gyasi
O’ Pioneers – Willa Cather
Also by Louise Penny: All The Devils Are Here, How the Light Gets In, Still Life
T.S. Eliot
Also by Alice Hoffman: The Rules of Magic and Magic Lessons
Farah Jasmine Griffin
Mediocre: The Dangerous Legacy of White Male Rage – Ijeoma Oluo
White Houses – Amy Bloom
New Haven Noir – edited by Amy Bloom
Say Nothing: A True Story of Murder and Memory in Northern Ireland – Patrick Radden Keefe

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