I had a hard time keeping my cool when I chatted with Jeremy Patlen, Director of Buying at Tattered Cover Bookstore in Denver, Colorado, one of the world’s best bookstores in one of the world’s best cities. Jeremy and I talked about the artist’s life and the cities that sustain it, the joys of opera, and a heartbreaking and beautiful memoir by Patti Smith. Support the Best Book Ever Podcast on Patreon Follow the Best Book Ever Podcast on Instagram or on the Best Book Ever Website Host: Julie Strauss Website/Instagram Guest: Jeremy Patlen Website/Instagram/Tattered Cover Bookstore Do you know a young person who’d like to appear on the 2nd Annual Kids/YA Gift Guide Episode? GO HERE! Discussed in this episode: Just Kids by Patti Smith (Also check out this gorgeous Illustrated Edition) Intimacies by Katie Kitamura Whereabouts by Jumpha Lahiri Comfort Me With Apples by Catherynne M. Valente Comfort Me With Apples: More Adventures at the Table by Ruth Reichl Save Me the Plums: My Gourmet Memoir by Ruth Reichl Robert Mapplethorpe: The Photographs The Chelsea Hotel, Manhattan My Accidental Visit to the Pandemic’s Party Capital (New York Times) Woolgathering by Patti Smith M Train by Patti Smith Devotions by Patti Smith My Heart is a Chainsaw by Stephen Graham Jones Harlem Shuffle: A Novel by Colson Whitehead Beautiful Country: A Memoir by Qian Julie Wang The Inheritance of Orquídea Divina: A Novel by Zoraida Córdova Love in the Time of Cholera by Gabriel García Márquez Fuzz by Mary Roach Sea of Tranquility by Emily St. John Mandel The Magician by Cólm Toibín Brooklyn by Cólm Toibín Beautiful World, Where Are You by Sally Rooney Discussed in our Patreon Segment Born to Run by Bruce Springsteen What Happened by Hillary Rodham Clinton Becoming by Michelle Obama (FYI - there is also a version of this book adapted for young readers, as well as a Becoming Guided Journal for Discovering Your Voice – these would make fantastic gifts for the young readers in your life!) A Promised Land by Barack Obama (Note: Some of the above links are affiliate links, meaning I get a few bucks off your purchase at no extra expense to you. Anytime you shop for books, you can use my affiliate link on Bookshop, which also supports Indie Bookstores around the country. If you’re shopping for everything else – clothes, office supplies, gluten-free pasta, couches – you can use my affiliate link for Amazon. Thank you for helping to keep the Best Book Ever Podcast in business!) This is a public episode. If you would like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit bestbookeverpodcast.substack.com

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