Episode 167 - Author Spotlight with Kelcey Ervick
Episode One Hundred Sixty Seven Show Notes
KEY: CW = Chris Wolak and EF = Emily Fine
– Announcing our 23rd Readalong –
Murder on the Red River – Marcie R. Rendon
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– Currently Reakding – [1:15]
Sweet Thursday (Cannery Row #2) – John Steinbeck (CW)(EF)
All That She Carried: The Journey of Ashley’s Sack, a Black Family Keepsake – Tiya Miles (CW)
– Just Read – [4:11]
Cannery Row – John Steinbeck (CW)(EF)
The Fall Girl – narrated by Marcia Clark and Cathy LePard (CW)(EF)
Small Game – Blair Braverman (CW)(EF)
Small Things Like These – Claire Keegan (EF)
The Mad Women’s Ball – Victoria Mas (translated by Frank Wynne) (EF)
Library Girl: How Nancy Pearl Became America’s Most Celebrated Librarian – Karen Henry Clark (illustrated by Sheryl Murray)(CW)
Dark Rivers to Cross – Lynne Reeves (EF) release date 11/8/2022
Miss Grief and Other Stories – Constance Fenimore Woolson (edited by Anne Boyd Rioux) (CW)
Open Water – Caleb Azumah Nelson (EF)
Lovecraft Country – Matt Ruff (CW)
The Salt Path – Raynor Winn (audio)(EF)
The Lunar Housewife – Caroline Woods (EF)
– Biblio Adventures – [44:02]
Emily was in Martha’s Vineyard where she visited Bunches of Grapes bookstore and four of the public libraries on the island: West Tisbury, Oak Bluffs, Vineyard Haven, and Edgartown libraries.
Chris attended a virtual event through the Beinecke Rare Book & Manuscript Library about The World in Maps.
Chris and Emily had a Couch Biblio Adventure via Simmons University with Malinda Lo discussing her book Last Night at the Telegraph Club.
Chris and Emily went on a Joint Jaunt meeting Aunt Ellen in Brooklyn. They made stops at The Center for Fiction, Books Are Magic bookstore, the Brooklyn Public Library at Carroll Gardens, then to an event at St. Ann & the Holy Trinity Church with Maggie O’ Farrell talking about her book The Marriage Portrait.
Books purchased:
Queer Little Nightmares: An Anthology of Monstrous Fiction and Poetry – David Ly and Daniel Zomparelli
Laserwriter II – Tamara Shopsin
The Between – Tananarive Due
Yellow Jessamine – Caitlin Starling
Food Eaten:
Smith Street Bagels
La Vara NYC
Magnolia Bakery
– Upcoming Jaunts – [1:02:52]
Emily is heading to Savoy Bookshop & Cafe on November 3rd at 5:30 to hear James Hannaham discuss his new book Didn’t Nobody Give a Shit What Happened to Carlotta.
Emily is headed back to Brooklyn on November 5th & 6th to attend Cooks & Books hosted by Cherry Bombe at the Ace Hotel.
Chris and Emily are headed to The Mount in Lenox, MA. The hope to read some stories from Wharton’s New England: Seven Stories and Ethan Frome. The ghost stories include The Triumph of Night, Bewitched, and All Souls.
– Upcoming Reads – [1:06:00]
The Foundling – Ann Leary (EF)
The Midcoast – Adam White (EF)
His Only Wife – Peace Adzo Medie (EF)
Fatty Fatty Boom Boom: A Memoir of Food, Fat, and Family – Rabia Chadry (EF) release date 11/8/2022
Slow Cooked: An Unexpected Life in Food Politics – Marion Nestle (EF)
Inciting Joy: Essays – Ross Gay (EF)
Hotel Cartagena – Simone Buchholz (translated by Rachel Ward) (CW)
Blue Night – Simone Buchholz (translated by Rachel Ward) (CW)
Carmilla – Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu
Out Now:
Signal Fires – Dani Shapiro
– Author Spotlight with Kelcey Ervick – [1:10:10]
We talk with Kelcey about her new graphic memoir The Keeper: Soccer, Me, and the Law That Changed Women’s Lives.
You can learn more about Kelcey here.
– Also Mentioned –
BOOK CLUB On the Go
East of Eden – John Steinbeck
Jane Austen
Tattered Cover Bookstore
Lovecraft Country series
Wild: From Lost to Found on the Pacific Crest Trail – Cheryl Strayed
A Scatter of Light – Malinda Lo
Bleak House – David Copperfield
Demon Copperhead – Barbara Kingsolver
Hamnet – Maggie O’ Farrell
The Good House – Ann Leary
Book of Delights: Essays – Ross Gay
The Artist’s Way – Julia Cameron
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