Episode 151 - Spring is in the air and the Book Cougars are on the prowl!

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

– Currently Reading – [3:30]
Both/And: A Life in Many Worlds – Huma Abedin (EF)(audio)
Run Rose Run – Dolly Parton and James Patterson (CW)(audio)

– Just Read – [8:41]
This Time Tomorrow – Emma Straub (EF) release date 5/17/22
Chris dnf’d War and Peace – Leo Tolstoy (CW)
Unspeakable: The Tulsa Race Massacre – Carole Boston Weatherford, Floyd Cooper (CW)
Gordon Parks: How the Photographer Captured Black and White America – Carole Boston Weatherford, Jamey Christoph (CW)
The Gloaming – Melanie Finn (CW)
Salt – Catrin Kean (CW)
Such a Library: A Yiddish Folktale Reimagined – Jill Ross Nadler (CW)
It Could Always Be Worse – Margot Zemach (CW)
Bubbe & Bart’s Matzoh Ball Mayhem – Bonnie Grubman, Deborah Melmon (CW)

– Biblio Adventures – [31:16]
Zoom discussion of A Snake Falls to Earth – Darcie Little Badger

Chris and Emily went on two joint jaunts: Riverbend Bookshop and the New Bedford Whaling Museum

Emily ventured to the Westport Public Library in Westport, CT. 

Chris attended a Zoom event with the Society for the Study of American Women Writers’s First Book Series. It was a conversation between Jennifer Putzi (Fair Copy: Relational Poetics and Antebellum American Women’s Poetry) and Claudia Stokes (Old Style: Unoriginality and Its Uses in Nineteenth-Century U.S. Literature).

Emily and The Gentleman Caller went on a walk in New Haven and discovered the Society of Book and Snake building.

– Upcoming Jaunts – [54:06]
Chris is registered to attend the Annual Willa Cather Spring Conference from June 2-4, 2022.

Emily is headed to Washington D.C. and hopes to visit the following bookstores: Bridge Street Books, Bold Fork Books, and Politics and Prose.

An exciting upcoming biblio adventure: Playwright Laura Thoma’s play Heartache Tonight is being performed May 13, 15, 19, and 22 at the Eden Prairie Players in Minnesota. You can purchase tickets here.

– Upcoming Reads – [59:57]
The Gilded Page: The Secret Lives of Medieval Manuscripts – Mary Wellesley (CW)
The Ukrainian and Russian Notebooks: Life and Death Under Soviet Rule – Igort (CW)
Watercress – Andrea Yang (CW)
They Called Us Girls: Stories of Female Ambition from Suffrage to Mad Men – Kathleen Stone (CW)(EF)

Out Now:
In Love: A Memoir of Loss and Love – Amy Bloom

– Also Mentioned –
Paul Farmer, Founder of Partners in Health
Mountains Beyond Mountains – Tracy Kidder
Doctors Without Borders
Watchmen
The Hare – Melanie Finn
Book Jotter blogger
Moby Dick – Herman Melville
The Economy of Prestige: Prestige, Awards, and the Circulation of Cultural Value – James F. English
One of Ours – Willa Cather
The Pulitzer Prize
The Sentence – Louise Erdrich
The Night Watchman – Louise Erdrich

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