Episode 241 - The Yellow Wallpaper
Episode 241 Show Notes
– Currently Reading –
The Wedding People – Alison Espach (EF) (audiobook)
The Improbable Victoria Woodhull: Suffrage, Free Love, and the First Woman to Run for President – Eden Collinsworth (CW) release date 9/2/2025
Hotel Silence – Auđur Ava Ólafsdóttir (translated by Brian Fitzgibbon) (EF)
– Just Read –
Working – Robert Caro (CW) (audiobook)
Until Alison – Kate Russo (EF)
The Upstairs House – Julia Fine (CW)(EF)
The Yellow Wallpaper – Charlotte Perkins Gilman (CW)(EF) (audiobook) Gilman’s essay “Why I Wrote the Yellow Wallpaper” originally published in 1913
Wreck – Catherine Newman (EF) release date 10/28/25
Follow Catherine on Crone Sandwich
The Monkey’s Paw by W.W. Jacobs from The Penguin Book of Ghost Stories: From Elizabeth Gaskell to Ambrose Bierce (CW)(EF) (audiobook)
Fonseca – Jessica Francis Kane (EF)
– Biblio Adventures –
Chris and Emily took a joint jaunt to the main branch of the New York Public Library so Chris could work in the archives while Emily spent time in the Rose Reading Room. They also took a browse through The Drama Book Shop.
The next day they drove to Boston to visit the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum.
Chris had a Zoom conversation with the reading group working through Margaret Fuller: Collected Writings (LOA #388) – co-edited by Brigitte Bailey, Leslie Eckel, and Megan Marshall.
Emily attended an event with Janice Nimura in conversation with Jessica Francis Kane about her new novel Fonseca at RJ Julia Booksellers.
Chris took a road trip where she did a drive-by of the Piper City Public Library in Illinois and browsed Parnassus Books in Nashville, Tennessee. She also spent time visiting Huntsville, Alabama and enjoyed touring the city’s historic districts which includes some markers honoring women’s institutions and suffragists.
Emily met Aunt Ellen in NYC where they went to see a production of Call Me Izzy starring Jean Smart.
– Upcoming Jaunts –
Chris and Emily are planning an upcoming trip to the first Horror Bookstore in NYC – The Twisted Spine. They also have plans for a joint jaunt to
Emily is excited to attend the book launch party for Lara Ehrlich’s new novel Bind Me Tighter Still via Bank Square Books on Friday, September 12th. Learn more and register here.
– Upcoming Reads –
The Wind in the Rose-Bush by Mary Wilkins Freeman from The Penguin Book of Ghost Stories: From Elizabeth Gaskell to Ambrose Bierce (CW)(EF) (audiobook)
Bind Me Tighter Still – Lara Ehrlich (EF) release date
The Rarest Fruit – Gaëlle Bélem (EF)
Cat and Bird: A Memoir – Kyoko Mori (EF)
Chasing Beauty: The Life of Isabella Stewart Gardner – Natalie Dykstra (CW)
Chris is participating in a reading challenge Framed in September co-hosted by Hannah’s Books. Learn more about the challenge here.
The Club: Where American Women Artists Found Refuge in Belle Époque Paris – Jennifer Dasal (CW)
– Also Mentioned –
Mrs. Dalloway by Virginia Woolf
The Power Broker: Robert Moses and the Fall of New York by Robert Caro
Turn Every Page: Adventures of Robert Caro and Robert Gottlieb documentary
The Awakening by Kate Chopin
The Garden by Clare Beams
Mexican Gothic by Sylvia Moreno-Garcia
Sandwich by Catherine Newman
The Bookshop by Penelope Fitzgerald
Joan Didion archives at the New York Public Library
The Doctors Blackwell by Janice Nimura
Offshore by Penelope Fitzgerald
Hermione Lee: Penelope Fitzgerald: A Life and Tom Stoppard: A Life
Animal Wife by Lara Ehrlich
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