Episode 123 - Author Kerri Arsenault Promises to Make Us Cretons!
Episode One Hundred Twenty Three Show Notes
KEY: CW = Chris Wolak and EF = Emily Fine
Emily read a poem by Khadijah Queen titled “Of All the Things I Love” from her collection Anodyne.
You can learn more about the Elliot Bay Book Company sub(Text) poetry subscription here.
– Currently Reading –
On hold: The Shipping News – E. Annie Proulx (CW)
The Office of Historical Corrections – Danielle Evans (EF)
Little Comfort – Edwin Hill (CW)
Dream Work – Mary Oliver (EF)
– Just Read –
My Grandmother’s Braid – Alina Bronsky, translated by Tim Mohr (EF)
DNF / On hold: The Only Good Indians – Stephen Graham Jones (CW)
The Islanders – Meg Mitchell Moore (EF)
– (Couch) Biblio Adventures –
Emily attended an event via Boswell Book Company with Lauren Fox, author of Send for Me, in conversation with J. Courtney Sullivan.
Chris went on a drive up to Amherst, MA to visit Emily Dickinson’s grave and Jones Library. Read her blogpost about the trip here.
Emily attended an event via Murder by the Book with Elle Cosimano, author of Finlay Donovan is Killing It: A Mystery, in conversation with Megan Miranda, author of The Girl from Widow Hills. You can watch a video of the event here.
Chris started watching the series, Dickinson, featuring Emily Dickinson and her poetry. She also watched Enola Holmes based on the YA novels by Nancy Springer starting with Enola Holmes: The Case of the Missing Marquess.
Emily listened to the TTFA podcast (Feb 2nd episode) with Nora McInerney, author of It’s Okay to Laugh, and Eve Rodsky, author of Fair Play: A Game-Changing Solution for When You Have Too Much to Do (and More Life to Live).
– Upcoming Jaunts –
Chris will be participating with Simmons University’s Spring Community Reads event with Professor Ibram X. Kendi’s and his book How to be An Antiracist.
Emily is registered for a joint event on March 3rd with Politics & Prose and Harvard Bookstore featuring Kazuo Ishigiro, author of Klara and the Sun, in conversation with Kate Darling. You can purchase a ticket here.
On March 10th, Emily will be attending a joint event with Savoy Bookshop & Cafe, The Tapped Apple Cidery & Winery and Dan Pucci and Greg Cavallo the authors of American Cider: A Modern Guide to a Historic Beverage. You can register for the event here.
– Upcoming Reads –
How to be An Antiracist – Ibram X. Kendi (CW)
To the Lighthouse – Virginia Woolf (CW)
Milk Fed – Melissa Broder (EF)
Fair Play: A Game-Changing Solution for When You Have Too Much to Do (and More Life to Live) – Eve Rodsky (EF)
– Author Spotlight with Kerri Arsenault –
Mill Town: Reckoning with What Remains
You can learn more about Kerri here.
This was our 16th readalong – you can join the online discussion on our Goodreads discussion thread found HERE.
– Also Mentioned –
Tin House Books
The Silence of the Lambs film
The Outsiders – S.E. Hinton
JA Konrath author of the Jack Daniels series
Everywhere That Mary Went - Lisa Scottoline
Also by Kazuo Ishigiro: Never Let Me Go and Remains of the Day
The Alcoholic Republic: An American Tradition – William J. Rorabaugh
The Danger of a Single Story – TED Talk with Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
Anne of Green Gables – L.M. Montgomery
“Evangeline: A Tale of Acadie” by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
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