Episode 95 - Author Spotlight with Matthew Goodman

Episode Ninety Five Show Notes CW = Chris Wolak
EF = Emily Fine

– Currently Reading –Maybe You Should Talk to Someone: A Therapist, HER Therapist, and Our Lives Revealed – Lori Gottlieb (CW)
Northernmost – Peter Geye (EF) release date April 14, 2020Winterlust: Finding Beauty in the Fiercest Season – Bernd Brunner (CW)
A Manual for Cleaning Women: Selected Stories – Lucia Berlin (EF)
Harriet Beecher Stowe: A Life – Joan D. Hedrick (CW)

– Just Read –Drive Your Plow Over the Bones of the Dead – Olga Tokarczuk, Antonia Lloyd-Jones (Translator) (CW)
Recipe for a Perfect Wife – Karma Brown (EF)
Epic Solitude: A Story of Survival and a Quest for Meaning in the Far North – Katherine Keith (CW)
Read Chris’s review on her blog.Such a Fun Age – Kiley Reid (EF)
Lighthouse Road and Wintering – Peter Geye (EF)

– Biblio Adventures –Chris and Emily went on two jaunts:
Matthew Goodman at the JCC of New Haven discussing his book The City Game: Triumph, Scandal, and a Legendary Basketball Team and Jeanine Cummins at RJ Julia Booksellers in Madison discussing her book American Dirt

Chris caught up with Our Mystery Man, John Valeri, at the Wesleyan RJ Julia Bookstore where she bought two books by Carmen Maria Machado: Her Body and Other Parties: Stories and In the Dream House.

Emily went on a quick trip to Philadelphia where she visited: Shakespeare & Co, The Rosenbach, Penn Bookstore, Penn Book Center, The Last Word Bookshop

Chris had a couch biblio adventure with a friend watching the Bella Lugosi version of Dracula and also went to bid adieu to our buddy Elissa Sweet at Bank Square Books in Mystic, CT.

– Upcoming Jaunts –February 18, 2020 – Chris and Emily are going on a joint jaunt to Northshire Bookstore in Manchester to celebrate the release of Simone St. James new book The Sun Down Motel.

– Upcoming Reads –Mayo Clinic on Digestive Health: How to Prevent and Treat Common Stomach and Gut Problems – Dr. Sahil Khanna, M.B.B.S. (CW)
You’re Not Listening: What You’re Missing and Why it Matters – Kate Murphy (CW)

– Author Spotlight –Matthew Goodman author of:
The City Game: Triumph, Scandal, and a Legendary Basketball Team
Eighty Days: Nellie Bly and Elizabeth Bisland’s History-Making Race Around the World
The Sun and the Moon: The Remarkable True Account of Hoaxers, Showmen, Dueling Journalists, and Lunar Man-Bats in Nineteenth-Century New York
Jewish Food: The World at Table
Matthew is inspired by the works of: Joan Didion, Robert Caro, Colum McCann
Saul Bellow: “A writer is a reader moved to emulation.”
Barnes & Noble Discover Great New Writers award winners that Matthew hinted about.

– 12th Readalong – Drive Your Plow Over the Bones of the Dead – Olga Tokarczuk, Antonia Lloyd-Jones (Translator)
The Goodreads discussion thread can be found HERE. Our conversation about the book will air on February 18th.

– Also Mentioned –
So Long – Lucia Berlin
The Hidden Life of Trees: What They Feel, How They Communicate – Discoveries from a Secret World – Peter Wohlleben, Jane Billinghurst (Translator)

The River – Peter Heller
PJ Our Way – receive books with Jewish themes
Tell Me How It Ends: An Essay in 40 Questions – Valeria Luiselli
American Factory
Where the Wild Things Are – Maurice Sendak
Dracula – Bram Stoker
The Broken Girls – Simone St .James
The Invited – Jennifer McMahon
Suzanne Clauser
Shuly Cawood
Ten Days in a Madhouse – Nelly Bly
Seabiscuit: An American Legend – Laura Hillenbrand
The Professor and the Madman: A Tale of Murder, Insanity, and the Making of the Oxford English Dictionary –Simon Winchester
Let the Great World Spin – Colum McCann
NPR’s Latino USA: Digging Into American Dirt

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