Episode 42 - Working on Your Brain with Betsy Kipnis

On this episode, Betsy Kipnis, a multi-hyphenate who loves a wide variety of authors, and I discuss some shared favorites, great Chicago bookstores, and she has some great stories. She discusses books that are multi-sensory and we get spicy about a beloved author.    Betsy’s Blog - Bookisshh Barbara Kingsolver’s Recovery Center    Books mentioned in this episode:    What Betsy’s reading:  The Road to the Salt Sea by Samuel Kọláwọlé Fundamentally by Nussaibah Younis     Books Highlighted by Betsy: Black Butterflies by Priscilla Morris  How to Say Babylon by Safiya Sinclair The Lovely Bones by Alice Sebold  Forty Rooms by Olga Grushin The Island of Missing Trees by Elif Shafak  The Vegetarian by Han Kang  Human Acts by Han Kang  Native Son by Richard Wright  Furious Hours: Murder, Fraud, and the Last Trial of Harper Lee by Casey Cep Meditations for Mortals: Four Weeks to Embrace Your Limitations and Make Time for What Counts by Oliver Burkeman    All books available on my Bookshop.org episode page.   Other books mentioned in this episode: Chocolat by Joanne Harris  Annie Bot by Sierra Greer  Hum by Helen Phillips  The Handmaid’s Tale by Margaret Atwood  Colored Television by Danzy Senna We Do Not Part by Han Kang  Flowers in the Attic by V.C. Andrews  Are You There God? It’s Me, Margaret by Judy Blume  Rouge by Mona Awad  Perfume: The Story of a Murderer by Patrick Suskind  The Nightingale by Kristin Hannah  Yellowface by R.F. Kuang  Hello Beautiful by Ann Napolitano  Interior Chinatown by Charles Yu  Breasts and Eggs by Meiko Kwakami  Girl in Snow by Danya Kukafka  Hillbilly Elegy: A Memoir of a Family and Culture in Crisis by J.D. Vance  Dopesick: Dealers, Doctors, and the Drug Company that Addicted America by Beth Macy  Educated: A Memoir by Tara Westover  The Guest by Emma Cline The Girls by Emma Cline  Luster by Raven Leilani  The Bean Trees by Barabara Kingsolver  The Joy Luck Club by Amy Tan  There Are No Children Here: The Story of Two Boys Growing Up in the Other America by Alex Kotlowitz  Oedipus Rex by Sophocles  There are Rivers in the Sky by Eilf Shafak  Ducks, Newburyport by Lucy Ellmann  In Cold Blood by Truman Capote To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee  Go Set a Watchman by Harper Lee  Four Thousand Weeks: Time Management for Mortals by Oliver Burkeman