Tell Me What You’re Reading - Season Three Wrap Up
Season Three of our “Tell Me What You’re Reading” podcast has just wrapped up. Thanks to all my Season Three guests and to all who listened in to one or more of our podcasts. Lots of fun discussions. More to come. Listen to all “Tell Me What You’re Reading” episodes on Spotify, Anchor or wherever else you get your podcasts
Ep. #21 Tracy Sidesinger - What My Mother and I Don't Talk About: Fifteen Writers Break the Silence Tracy, a clinical psychologist and psychoanalytic psychotherapist, discusses three books with a similar theme, that is, addressing expectations of the feminine and opening up more authentic and useful discourse. What My Mother and I Don't Talk About: Fifteen Writers Break the Silence, edited by Michele Filgate; Mothers: An Essay on Love and Cruelty by Jacqueline Rose; and Feminine Law: Freud, Free Speech, and the Voice of Desire by Jill Gentile with Michael Macrone.
Ep. #22 Subway Book Review - Uli Beutter Cohen In a pre-COVID discussion, Uli, founder of Subway Book Review (@subwaybookreview on Instagram), discussed her New York City based and now global social media project, her love for subways, readers and reading (physical books - “the book is a character itself” - not e-books and certainly not listening to books), her love for New York and New Yorkers (“New Yorkers are the most loving people in the universe. This is one of the best cities that ever existed”).
Ep. #23 Uli Beutter Cohen: Books that deal with identity and how to find your place in the world Uli discusses her enthusiasm for five “books that deal with identity and how to find your place in the world”: How to Write an Autobiographical Novel; The Seven Necessary Sins for Women and Girls; On Earth We’re Briefly Gorgeous; COMMUTE - An Illustrated Memoir of Female Shame; and How to Start a Revolution: Young People and the Future of American Politics + Bird by Bird: Instructions on Writing and Life, and Devotion: Why I Write.
Ep. #24 Iowa Caucuses - 2020 Book Club discussion with Kendra Dodson Breitsprecher In advance of the Iowa caucuses (and what feels like a lifetime ago), Kendra, owner and editor of the Dayton Leader newspaper in Dayton, Iowa, and the “very definition of an establishment Democrat”, discussed the books written by the Democratic candidates, including Joe and Kamala!
Ep. #25 Camilla Calhoun - The White Moth Camilla discussed The White Moth, a beautifully told, moving and lovely memoir, both historical and very personal. Much of the story takes place on a 15th century farm villa in Tuscany during very challenging times in Italy, from the 1930s to the 1970s: wars, political upheaval, deprivation, fascism, occupation and change.
Ep. #26 Allen Guy Wilcox - A Gentleman in Moscow Allen discussed A Gentleman in Moscow” an elegant, historical novel of post revolutionary Moscow, expounding on the literature, poetry and classical music of the time, and on the timelessness of friendship, children, parenting, food and wine, and on the pace of life itself.
Ep. #27 Rob Chesnut - Intentional Integrity - How Smart Companies Can Lead an Ethical Revolution— and Why That’s Good for All of Us Rob, former General Counsel and former Chief Ethics Officer of Airbnb, discussed his new book and explains how intentional integrity and intentional inclusion make companies more attractive to employees and to customers, and make such companies out-performers as well
Ep. #28 Andrew Rice: Ladies and Gentlemen, The Bronx is burning 1977, Baseball, Politics, and the Battle for the Soul of a City, by Jonathan Mahler Andrew discussed Mahler’s historical snapshot of 1977 New York City, the Democratic mayoral primary election; Yankee season; Son of Sam serial killings; summer heat wave and blackout and subsequent destruction and looting; aftermath of near-bankruptcy of the City in ‘75; Murdoch’s takeover of the New York Post, Breslin, Hamill; Saturday Night Live, Rolling Stone; World of Our Fathers; Tavern on the Green; Windows on the World; etc.
Ep. #29 Andrew Wilcox - Richard Ravitz and Paul Volcker memoirs, Lewis’ The Fifth Risk, JFK, Nixon, and Lepore’s masterpiece, These Truths Andrew discussed So Much to Do: A Full Life of Business, Politics, and Confronting Fiscal Crises; Keeping At It; The Fifth Risk; JFK: Coming of Age in the American Century, 1917‒1956; Being Nixon: A Man Divided; and These Truths, A History of the United States.
Ep. #30 Michael Koryta: The Chill Michael discussed his horror/ suspense/ disaster/ supernatural novel written under the pen name, Scott Carson, a story of the fictional town of Galesburg in the Catskill mountains in upstate New York, and its residents who many years before, generations before, were displaced by the government when the properties where their homes were located were taken to create a reservoir, the Chillewaukee, to meet the water needs of New York City,
