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

– Tenth Episode Giveaway –
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Democracy in Chains: The Deep History of the Radical Right’s Stealth Plan for America – Nancy Maclean
The Dante Club – Matthew Pearl

– Currently Reading – [3:56]
The Inferno of Dante – Dante Alighieri translated by Robert Pinsky (CW)
Properties of Thirst – Marianne Wiggins (EF)
My Friend Anne Frank: The Inspiring and Heartbreaking True Story of Best Friends Torn Apart and Reunited Against All Odds – Hannah Pick-Goslar (CW)
Thin Places – Kerri Ní Dochartaigh (EF)(audiobook)
Kerri has been in conversation with Katherine May on How We Live Now and The Wintering Sessions.
Adversity for Sale – Jay Jeezy Jenkins (CW)

– Episode Sponsor – [12:27]
Kissing Asphalt – Delicia Naimi
Learn more about Delicia and order a signed copy of her book here.

– Just Read – [13:14]
Lark Ascending – Silas House (EF)
Hawthorne: A Life – Brenda Wineapple (CW)
The Invisible Hour – Alice Hoffman (CW)(EF)

– Biblio Adventures – [46:32]
Chris and Emily met with longtime listener Karen (aka @barkerforbooks) in Salem, MA. They visited The House of the Seven Gables, Salem Athenaeum, the Salem Public Library, and other Nathaniel Hawthorne historic sites. We used The North Shore Literary Tour by Kristin Bierfelt as a resource. Chris purchased the book at Wicked Good Books on her previous trip to Salem.

The Book Cougars hosted a watch along of the 1934 movie adaptation of The Scarlet Letter.

Emily browsed The Strand Bookstore with Aunt Ellen in search of a copy of A Woman’s Story by Annie Ernaux.

– Upcoming Jaunts – [01:08:05]
To wrap up Scarlet Summer, Chris and Emily are heading on a joint jaunt to Boston on September 21 to visit Hawthorne related sites including the Boston Athanaeum and have a meal at the Chipotle located at the site of the original Old Corner Bookstore.

On September 17 at 7PM, Chris’s wife Laura is having a public reading of her book Yours in Words as part of the Green Stage Festival in Guilford, CT. The dramatic radio production of the play was featured on Book Cougars Episode 66.

Chris plans to watch the biography Joyce Carol Oates: A Body in the Service of a Mind .

– Upcoming Reads – [01:10:53]
Reflections in a Golden Eye – Carson McCullers (CW)(EF)
Something So Good It Can Never Be Enough – Shuly Cawood (CW)(EF)
Meg, Jo, Beth, and Amy: A Modern Graphic Retelling of Little Women – Rey Terciero and Bre Indigo (EF)

– Out Now – [01:12:50]
Morning in this Broken World – Katrina Kittle
Creep: Accusations and Confessions – Myriam Gurba
From Dust to Stardust – Kathleen Rooney

– 3rd Quarter Readalong our Scarlet Summer –
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The Scarlet Letter – Nathaniel Hawthorne (July)
Hester – Laurie Lico Albanese (August)
The Invisible Hour – Alice Hoffman (September)

– Also Mentioned –
Easy A movie
The Crucible movie based on the play by Arthur Miller via Hoopla
Master of American Literature: The Hawthorne Legacy on Kanopy
The Red Garden – Alice Hoffman
Author Mary Beth Bass
Voices Against Injustice organization
Peabody Essex Museum in Salem, MA
Blond Joyce Carol Oates

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