Alexis discusses book, Alice + Freda Forever, a tale of same sex love and a murder in Memphis, Tennessee . . . in 1892! Alexis also discusses history (George Washington, etc.), research and the writing process.
Tell Me What You’re Reading #11 Dylan Marron: Educated (etc.)
Dylan Marron on Tara Westover’s Educated + reading audibly; and Dylan’s forthcoming book about having difficult conversations, empathy on the internet, and wielding softness as strength. It’s called “Snowflake”.
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Bookstores for Bookworms in the Wild
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Bookstores for Bookworms in the Wild
The Strand NYC
Books of Wonder Chelsea/ UWS
McNally Jackson SoHo/ Williamsburg
Books Are Magic Cobble Hill, Brooklyn
WORD Greenpoint, Brooklyn/ Jersey City
Stories Prospect Heights, Brooklyn
The Golden Notebook Woodstock, NY
Half Moon Books Kingston, NY
Rough Draft Bar & Books Kingston, NY
Briars & Brambles Books Wyndham, NY
Alexander Book Company - San Francisco
Powell's Books Portland OR
Northshire Bookstore Saratoga, NY
Bunch of Grapes Martha’s Vineyard MA
The Hickory Stick Bookshop Washington Depot, CT
Politics and Prose Washington, DC
Farley’s Bookshop New Hope PA
Daunt Books Marylebone High Street, London
Tell Me What You’re Reading - Season 1
From Bookworms in the Wild and from Anchor, I’m Howard Altarescu and this is a summary of Season 1 of my podcast called “Tell Me What You’re Reading”.
Ep. 1, the history of comic books and graphic novels with Dr. Frank Burbrink of the American Museum of Natural History. Released on 9/6/18. As of 12/31/18: 268 plays
Ep. 2, a call to action in the context of the history of the formation of our country and the post civil war era, with Dr. Hardin Coleman, former Dean of the Boston University School of Education. Released on 9/14/18. As of 12/31/18: 131 plays
Ep. 3, Haruki Murakami, Thomas McGuane, Robert Caro and several other great writers and their novels, short stories, histories, detective and spy tales, and magical realism, with my old friend Jim Finnegan. Released on 9/20/18. As of 12/31/18: 185 plays
Ep. 4, memoirs, essays, fiction and nonfiction by Durga Chew-Bose and several other Brooklyn and NYC based writers, with Emma Holland of the Repo Rights Zine and of The Wing. Released on 9/27/18. As of 12/31/18: 189 plays
Ep. 5, Stephen King, with “superfan”, Maya Prohovnik of Anchor, + Maya’s favorite book of all time, a sci-fi tale featuring a barrel full of monkeys. Released on 10/4/18. As of 12/31/18: 143 plays
Ep. 6, a mix of novels (including dystopian novels) and nonfiction, including the haunting VietNam War reflection, The Things They Carried, by Tim O’Brien, with Marty Lynch and Dom Sallustro and Emily, Victoria and Adrianna of Marty’s Mercantile in West Shokan, NY. Released on 10/15/18. As of 12/31/18: 85 plays
Ep. 7, books about women filled with anger, and sometimes, rage in response to the unique challenges they face, currently and historically, with Payton Turner, co-founder and the Editor-in-Chief of Girls at Library, and co-founder, CEO and head designer of the design studio Flat Vernacular. Released on 10/23/18. As of 12/31/18: 131 plays
Ep. 8, classic children’s books by Richard Scary, Eric Carle, Shel Silverstein, Maurice Sendak, Dr. Seuss, Bruno Munari and many others, with Youngna Park, Executive Director of Parenting @ The New York Times. Released on 10/31/18. As of 12/31/18: 140 plays
Ep. 9, a virtual “roundtable” discussion of additional classic children’s books, including great ones by Mo Willems, Judith Kerr, Jill Murphy, Michael Rosen and Margaret Wise Brown, with friends in New York, Arkansas, London and Milan, Canem, Salama, Sushila, Madeleine, Laura, Eva and Yaw. Released on 11/30/18. As of 12/31/18: 105 plays
Ep. 10, novels by best selling author and 2009 Pulitzer Prize winner for Olive Kitteridge, Elizabeth Strout + the novels of Sebastian Barry, etc., with my friend Joe Polizzotto. Released on 12/23/18. As of 12/31/18: 91 plays
Tell Me What You’re Reading #10: Joe Polizzotto discusses the novels of Elizabeth Strout and other great novelists
Joe discusses the works of Elizabeth Strout an American novelist, best selling author and 2009 Pulitzer Prize winner for Fiction for her novel Olive Kitteridge. Strout was born and raised in Portland, Maine, and her experiences in her youth are said to have served as inspiration for her novels. Joe also discusses the works of the great Irish novelist Sebastian Barry, and others.
Tell Me What You're Reading #9: Childrens Books . . . Follow-up to Youngna Park Discussion
A virtual roundtable discussion of childrens books and children reading, with seven friends and colleagues in New York, New Jersey, Fayetteville, Arkansas, London and Milan, including discussions of reading to children in Austria, Sweden and Ghana.
Tell Me What You're Reading #8: Conversation with Youngna Park, Executive Director of Parenting at The New York Times - Children's Books; what to read to your kids!
Youngna discusses what she’s reading to her “almost” three year old, how and when children start to read, rhyming and musicality, cadence and sounds, silliness, and darkness, illustrations, the lasting power of children’s books about broad subjects, perhaps especially the moon, and more generally about the children’s book genre.
Tell Me What You’re Reading #7: conversation with Payton Turner of Girls At Library - Women’s anger and, sometimes, rage
Peyton discusses The Blazing World and Now My Heart is Full, and also her own experiences as an art student, and the meaningfully ways she has responded to anger and rage.
Tell Me What you’re Reading #6: Conversations at Marty’s Mercantile in West Shokan: our geological beginnings, Of Mice and Men and Moby Dick, dystopian tales and sobering memories of war.
Marty and Dominick are interesting, but it is Victoria and Emily who offer thought provoking interest in dystopian tales, leading to reflections on the ability of George Orwell, in 1949, to predict the future, and it is Adrianna who introduced me to The Things They Carried, which led to sobering reflections on the Vietnam War, the Korean War and as far back as WWI.
Tell Me What You’re Reading #5: Maya Prohovnik - a Stephen King “Superfan”! + Detective tales and Maya’s “favorite book of all time”, Adrian Tchaikovsky’s Children of Time.
Maya’s enthusiasm and reverence (love) for Stephen King jumps off the page (or out of the podcast): horror, romance, character development, magical experiences, clowns, music and 11/22/63 time travel
Tell Me What You're Reading #4: Emma Holland on the love of words, reading, highlighting, rereading . . . The Art of Reading + "Too Much and Not the Mood", by Duga Chew-Bose.
Emma’s enthusiasm and love for reading is infectious. Emma reads almost entirely for words, rather than story, Emma loves to hold her books in her hands, highlights compulsively, is usually reading several books at a time, rereads her comfort books, and comfort passages from those books, and, according to her terrific interview with the online journal Girls at Library, loathes lending books to others, even to her Mom. This is a woman who truly loves literature and her books.
Tell Me What You’re Reading #3: Jim Finnegan on a literary tour de force, from Haruki Murakami to Joe Ide, Jennifer Egan, Stephen King and many others
Jim provides an impressive tour of novels, short stories, histories, detective and spy tales, magical realism, library books and the travail of audio books, The New Yorker, The New York Review of Books, “By the Book” from The New York Times Book Review, and Symphony Space on the upper west side of Manhattan. Hard as it may be to believe, there is a bit of a connection between and among the 30+ books and other materials we discuss.
Tell Me What You’re Reading #2: Dr. Hardin Coleman on rival regional cultures; President Grant; and finding common interests to address inequality
Hardin comes from many generations of teachers, social workers and Episcopal ministers (one of whom operated the Underground Railroad in St. Louis, helping slaves flee their captivity). Hardin’s depth, commitment and passion, likely borne out of his rich heritage, comes through in his remarks.
Tell Me What You're Reading #1: Dr. Frank Burbrink on Comic Books
Dr. Frank Burbrink, molecular evolutionary biologist and curator of reptiles and amphibians at the American Museum of Natural History... and a student of the history of comic books, which were, for many of us, the very first books we read.