Episode Seventy Four Show Notes CW = Chris WolakEF = Emily FinePurchase Book Cougars Swag on Zazzle! AND at Bookclub Bookstore & More.If you’d like to help financially support the Book Cougars, please consider becoming a Patreon member. You can DONATE HERE. If you would prefer to donate directly to us, please email [email protected] for instructions.Join our Goodreads Group! Please subscribe to our email newsletter here.– Upcoming Readalong –We are hosting co-reads in June 2019 with Jenny Colvin of the Reading Envy Podcast. More details are forthcoming, but the books are:Gone with the Wind – Margaret MitchellSapphira and the Slave Girl by Willa CatherThe Goodreads discussion page can be found HERE– Currently Reading –The World That We Knew: A Novel – Alice Hoffman (EF) (release dateA Vindication of the Rights of Women – Mary Wollstonecraft (CW)Click HERE for the readalong with Great Book StudyWelcome to the Writer’s Life: How to Design Your Writing Craft, Writing Business, Writing Practice, and Reading Practice - Paulette Perhach (CW)From A Whisper to A Riot: The Gay Writers Who Crafted an American Literary Tradition – Adam W. Burgess (CW)The Jewel Garden: A Story of Despair and Redemption – Monty Don (CW)– Just Read –Fascism: A Warning – Madeline Albright (CW) (audio)The Shortest Way Home – Miriam Parker (EF)Chris dnf’d Transcription – Kate Atkinson (CW)Tell Me How it Ends: An Essay in Forty Questions – Valeria Luiselli (EF)The Marriage of Phaedra – Willa Cather which is part of the Willa Cather Short Story ProjectHeavy: An American Memoir – Kiese Laymon (EF) (audio)– Biblio Adventures –Chris and Emily went to the 92nd St Y to see Barbara Kingsolver and Richard Powers discuss their books Unsheltered and The OverstoryChris watched A Discovery of Witches based on the All Souls Trilogy by Deborah HarknessEmily took a trip to Philadelphia and visited the University of Pennsylvania Bookstore and Penn BookCenter and also took a picture of the Curtis Publishing Company building. She also had dinner at Zahav and flipped through a copy of Michael Solomonov’s new cookbook, Zahav: A World of Israeli Cooking. Click HERE to read the article about Solomonov in the NY Times.– Upcoming Jaunts –4/18/2019 – The Willa Cather Bookclub will discuss A Lost Lady at 2pm at Bookclub Bookstore & More.4/18/2019 – Bank Square Books and the Lagrua Center are co-hosting Mary Norris to discuss her book Greek to Me: Adventures of the Comma Queen.4/23/2019 – Patricia Marx and Roz Chast will be visiting RJ Julia Booksellers to discuss their book Why Don’t You Write My Eulogy Now So I Can Correct It?: A Mother’s Suggestions. Click HERE to read the article about them in the NY Times.4/24/2019 – Delia Owens will be visiting RJ Julia Booksellers to discuss her book Where the Crawdads Sing. Note: The event is sold out.4/24/2019 – Dr. Carla Hayden in conversation with Tracy K Smith at the Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture.Tracy K. Smith is the poet Laureate of the United States and has a wonderful podcast, The Slowdown, where she reads a poem each day.5/30-6/1/2019 – 64th Annual Willa Cather Spring Conference6/17-6/21/2019 – The 17th Annual Willa Cather Seminar– Upcoming Reads –A Lost Lady – Willa Cather (CW)Gone With the Wind – Margaret Mitchell (CW)Sapphira and the Slave Girl– Willa Cather (CW)If Beale Street Could Talk – James Baldwin (EF)Lights All Night Long – Lydia Fitzpatrick (EF)– Also Mentioned –Faithful – Alice HoffmanRiff Raff Bookstore in Providence, RILost Children Archive – Valeria LuiselliThe Poisonwood Bible – Barbara KingsolverWhite Dog CafeThe Impossible Fortress – Jason RekulakTo find the poetry videos from the Book Cougars April 2018 National Poetry Month Celebration head to our YouTube page.Check out Ryan Ludman on Instagram

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