Episode 159 - On the Prowl Summer 2022

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

– Currently Reading – [1:04]
Liberty’s Exiles: American Loyalists in the Revolutionary World – Maya Jasonoff (CW)
The Catch – Alison Fairbrother (EF)
Death by Dumpling: A Noodle Shop Mystery – Vivien Chien (CW)

– Just Read – [7:11]
Eventide and Benediction – Kent Haruf (EF)
The Historian – Elizabeth Kostova (CW)
Vacationland – Meg Mitchell Moore (EF)
My Autobiography of Carson McCullers: A Memoir – Jenn Shapland (CW)
Read Chris’s blogpost here.
Signal Fires – Dani Shapiro (EF) release date 10/18/2022
Cat’s in the Navy – Scot Christenson (CW)
Read Chris’s blogpost here.
The Local: A Legal Thriller – Joey Hartstone (EF)

– Biblio Adventures – [37:03]
Emily was thrilled to get a library card from the Basalt Regional Library. She also found a copy of How the Word is Passed: A Reckoning with the History of Slavery Across America by Clint Smith at a little free library in Aspen, CO and was happy to discover a newly opened store White River Books in Carbondale, CO.

Chris stopped at The Bookery in Lexington, VA. She also visited Malaprops Bookstore/Cafe and Downtown Books & News in Asheville, NC. She was thrilled to find copies of Slightly Foxed Magazine.

Emily visited Atticus Coffee, Teahouse, & Books in Park City, UT.

Chris attended the 68th Annual Willa Cather Spring Conference including a conversation with Dr. James English: “The Literary Award as Judgement Device.” You can watch the video here.

Emily listened to an interview with Kent Haruf on The Book Nook with Vick Mickunas who recommended the author James Welch. When she visited Pioneer Book in Provo, UT she was thrilled to find copies of Fools Crow and The Heartsong of Charging Elk.
Upon arrival in Salt Lake City, UT the Gentleman Caller’s son, Liam, took her on a mad dash of bookstores including:
Marissa’s Books & Gifts
Central Book Exchange in the Sugar House neighborhood where she purchased a copy of Julie Otsuka’s The Buddha in the Attic.
The King’s English Bookshop
Ken Sander’s Rare Books – Ken Sanders, an antiquarian book dealer, is famous for the role he played in helping to capture book thief John Charles Gilkey. The book based on this incident is called The Man Who Loved Books Too Much: The True Story of a Thief, a Detective, and a World of Literary Obsession by Allison Hoover Bartlett.       
– Upcoming Jaunts – [01:03:21]
Emily is hoping to attend an author event at RJ Julia’s Bookstore with Gabrielle Zevin author of Tomorrow, and Tomorrow, and Tomorrow on July 13th.

Chris is planning to shop at The Frugal Muse Books in Chicago.

– Upcoming Reads – [01:05:20]
Fool’s Crow – James Welch (EF)
As Always, Julia: The Letters of Julia Child and Avis Devoto – edited by Joan Reardon (EF)
The Warmth of Other Suns by Isabel Wilkerson (CW)
You can join Chris’s Buddy Read here.

Out Now:
Hurricane Girl – Marcy Dermansky
Blood Orange Night: My Journey to the Edge of Madness – Melissa Bond
The Lies I Tell – Julie Clark

– Also Mentioned –
Windham Campbell Prizes
Plainsong – Kent Haruf
Marilynne Robinson
The Heart is a Lonely Hunter – Carson McCullers
The Member of the Wedding – Carson McCullers
The Lincoln Lawyer – Michael Connelly
Scott Turow
The Swimmers – Julie Otsuka

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