Episode 17 - The Cougars go bicoastal visiting both Portland's in the same week!

Episode Seventeen Show Notes CW = Chris Wolak EF = Emily Fine – Just Read – It’s Okay to Laugh (Crying is Cool Too) – Nora McInerny (EF) Aaron Joseph Purmort’s obituary Hillbilly Elegy: A Memoir of a Family and Culture in Crisis – J.D. Vance (CW) History of Wolves – Emily Fridlund (EF) Shiver Hitch – Linda Greenlaw (EF & CW) The Grand Central Baking Book – Piper Davis and Ellen Jackson (EF) Georgia – Dawn Tripp (EF) – Currently Reading/Listening – The Gypsy Moth Summer – Julia Fierro (CW) Mennonite in a Little Black Dress: A Memoir of Going Home – Rhoda Janzen (EF) (audio) – Biblio Adventures – May 23 – Girls Write Now Awards Awards were given to: Zadie Smith, Sophia Amoruso, Ilana Glazer, Melissa Harris-Perry, Abbi Jacobson Melissa Harris-Perry’s most recent OpEd in the NY Times Girls Write Now Anthologies May 26 – Wesleyan RJ Julia Bookstore and Russell Library May 31-June 2 – Book Expo Conference Sessions from Book Expo: Adult Editor’s Buzz The First Amendment Resistance Presented by PEN America An Evening With Hillary Rodham Clinton Book Reviews: The Diversity of Race, Ethnicity and Sexual Orientation Anti Oppression Web Tool WTF is Happening, Senator Franken Chris went to her niece’s graduation at Williams College where the commencement speaker was Chimamanda Ngozi Adiche. Listen to it here. Chris went out West and visited three bookstores: Godfather’s Books and Espresso in Astoria, OR Powell’s in Portland, OR Green Bean Books in Portland, OR Emily went up to Maine and visited three bookstores (and chased Linda Greenlaw to no avail): Library Bookstore in Bath, ME Sherman’s Maine Coast Book Shops and Cafe in Damariscotta, ME Print: A Bookstore in Portland, ME – Upcoming Jaunts – June 14 – Chris will head to RJ Julia Bookstore to see Linda Greenlaw author of Shiver Hitch June 29 – Emily will head to Wesleyan RJ Julia Bookstore to see Weike Wang author of Chemistry – Upcoming Reads – Foxlowe – Eleanor Wasserberg (CW) The Standard Grand – Jay Baron Nicorvo (CW) The Immortalists – Chloe Benjamin (EF) An American Marriage – Tayari Jones (EF) – Also Mentioned – Let the Great World Spin and TransAtlantic - Colum McCann Silver Sparrow – Tayari Jones Queer, There and Everywhere: 23 People Who Changed the World – Sarah Prager Plainsong – Kent Haruf Honey Paw Restaurant in Portland, OR