Episode 165 - Author Spotlight with Diane Wilson

Author Spotlight with Diane Wilson

Episode One Hundred Sixty Five 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 Reading – [1:09]
How to Read Now: Essays – Elaine Castillo (CW)
The Rabbit Hutch – Tess Gunty (EF) (audiobook)
Finding Dora Maar: An Artist, an Address Book, a Life – Brigitte Benkemoun, translated by Jody Gladding (CW)

– Just Read – [6:43]
Finlay Donovan Knocks ‘em Dead: A Mystery – Elle Cosimano (EF)
The Warmth of Other Suns – Isabel Wilkerson (CW)(audiobook)
“Pig” the short story in The Best of Roald Dahl – Roald Dahl (EF)
The Keeper: Soccer, Me, and the Law That Changed Women’s Lives – Kelcey Ervick (EF)
The Seed Keeper – Diane Wilson (CW)(EF)(audiobook)

– Biblio Adventures – [29:55]
Chris attended a virtual event with Jenn Shapland discussing her book My Autobiography of Carson McCullers: A Memoir with Robert Kesten, Executive Director of the Stonewall National Museum & Archives. You can watch the video here.

Emily visited Pop! Art Books Culture in Boardman, Ohio where the Gentleman Caller picked up a copy of Magic Terror: 7 Tales by Peter Straub.

Chris watched an episode of Lovecraft Country based on the novel by Matt Ruff.

Emily attended an event at Madison Art Cinema sponsored by R.J. Julia Booksellers, a showing of the documentary Hello, Bookstore.

Chris and Emily went on a Joint Jaunt to the E.C. Scranton Memorial Library for some worktime together. Emily picked up a copy of Simply Julia: 110 Recipes for Easy Comfort Food by Julia Turshen.

– Upcoming Jaunts – [40:53]
Emily is heading to Martha’s Vineyard and hopes to visit Bunch of Grapes Bookstore and Edgartown Books as well as Eight Cousins Bookstore in Falmouth, MA.

Chris is planning to attend an event at the Mark Twain House& Museum on September 27th at 7pm with Nikki Woolfolk in conversation with Alex Jennings discussing the novel The Ballad of Perilous Graves.  

– Upcoming Reads – [44:27]
Small Game – Blair Braverman (CW)(EF) release date November 1, 2022
The Believer: Encounters with the Beginning, the End, and Our Place in the Middle – Sarah Krasnostein (EF)
All that She Carried: The Journey of Ashley’s Sack, a Black Family Keepsake – Tiya Miles (CW)
After Sappho – Selby Wynn Schwartz (CW)
The Bread the Devil Knead – Lisa Allen-Agostini (EF)

Out Now:
Lucy by the Sea – Elizabeth Strout

– Author Spotlight with Diane Wilson author of The Seed Keeper Our 22nd Readalong – [49:39]
We chat with Diane Wilson author of our Third Quarter readalong, The Seed Keeper.
Learn more about Diane.

Her new picture book, Where We Come From, publishes on October 4th.

Reminder that you can join the Goodreads discussion here, anytime.

– Also Mentioned –
The Ski Jumpers by Peter Geye
National Book Awards
The Booker Prizes
Shutter – Ramona Emerson
James and the Giant Peach – Roald Dahl
Braiding Sweetgrass – Robin Wall Kimmerer
Provincetown Book Festival
The Only Wonderful Things: The Creative Partnership of Willa Cather & Edith Lewis – Melissa Homestead
Also by Blair Braverman: Dogs on the Trail: A Year in the Life and Welcome to the Goddamn Ice Cube:
Chasing Fear and Finding Home in the Great White North


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Episode 162 - Just Us and the Insects (or not)

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

– 22nd Readalong –
Our Third Quarter readalong is The Seed Keeper by Diane Wilson. The Zoom discussion will take place on Sunday, September 18th at 7pm (ET). Send us an email if you would like to join in.
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Purchase directly from Milkweed Press with free shipping using the Promo Code: SEEDKEEPERCOUGARS

– Currently Reading – [:22]
Lucy by the Sea – Elizabeth Strout (EF) release date 9/20/2022
The Warmth of Other Suns – Elizabeth Wilkerson (CW)(audio narrated by Robin Miles)
You can join Chris’s buddy read here.
The Electricity of Every Living Thing – Katherine May (EF)(audio)
The Electricity of Every Living Thing dramatic adaptation – Katherine May (EF)(audio)
Mansfield Park – Jane Austen (CW)
Read Chris’s guest blog post on Roof Beam Reader.

– Just Read – [9:26]
Lessons in Chemistry – Bonnie Garmus (EF)
Vampire Slayer, The Vol. 2 – Sarah Gailey, Michael Shelfer (Illustrations), Sonia Liao (Illustrations) (CW)
When Women Could Fly – Megan Giddings (EF) (audiobook narrated by Angel Pean)
A Lost Lady – Willa Cather (CW)
You can listen to Chris chat about the book on The Mooks and The Gripes – Episode 34
The Many Daughters of Afong Moy – Jamie Ford (EF)(audio)
Natures Best Hope: A New Approach to Conservation That Starts in Your Yard – Douglas W. Tallamy (CW)
Learn about his event at Guilford High School here.

– Biblio Adventures – [35:11]
Chris and Emily went on a Joint Jaunt to the Madison Art Cinemas to see the movie Where the Crawdads Sing based on the novel by Delia Owens.

Emily took the Gentleman Caller to the Book Barn in Niantic to search for Jurassic Park by Michael Crichton. Which they didn’t find but Emily found a copy of Black, White, and the Grey by Mashama Bailey and John O. Morisano.

Chris and Laura went on a road trip to New Hampshire where she came across an historical marker for Sarah Josepha Buell Hale located in Newport, New Hampshire.

Emily went to Barnswallow Books in Rockport, Maine for a workshop with Elissa Altman and Katherine May authors of Wintering and Motherland.  She also spent a workday at the Camden Public Library.

Chris attended a virtual event through Savoy Bookshop & Café with Dr. Mark Harper about his book Chill: The Cold Water Swim Cure. You can watch the video here.

– Upcoming Jaunts – [1:07:04]
Chris and Emily are heading to Mystic to work at the Mystic & Noank Library and an in-person event at the Westerly Library sponsored by Bank Square Books, Savoy Bookshop & Café, and The New London Day with Jamie Ford discussing his book The Many Daughters of Afong Moy.

– Upcoming Reads – [1:09:27]
The Great Bridge – David McCullough (EF)
Reading for Our Lives: A Literacy Action Plan from Birth to Six  – Maya Payne Smart (EF)
Remarkably Bright Creatures – Shelby Van Pelt (EF)

– Also Mentioned –
Also in the Amgash Series by Elizabeth Strout: My Name is Lucy Barton, Anything is Possible, and Oh William!
Roof Beam Reader
Buffy comics fan world: https://buffy.fandom.com/wiki/Buffy_the_Vampire_Slayer_comics
Dark Star Comics
Lakewood – Megan Giddings
Margaret Atwood
Octavia Butler
A Lost Lady 1934 film
Bringing Nature Home – Douglas W. Tallamy
Pat Conroy
Katherine May’s the Wintering Sessions
Enchantment: Awakening Wonder in an Anxious Age – Katherine May

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