Episode 71 - Min Jin Lee, JFK Presidential Library, and Riff Raff Bookstore

Episode Seventy One 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.– 10th Readalong –True Grit – Charles Portis Send in questions or comments by March 28, 2019 – we will discuss on April 2nd episode.The Goodreads discussion page can be found HERE.– Currently Reading –Think and Grow Rich – Napoleon Hill (CW)Our Prince of Scribes: Writers Remember Pat Conroy – edited by Nicole A. Seitz, Jonathan Haupt (CW)A Velocity of Being: Letters to a Young Reader – edited by Maria Popova & Claudia Zoe Bedrick (EF)Good Riddance – Elinor Lippman (EF)– Just Read –The Flatshare – Beth O’Leary (EF) (release date 5/28/19)The Street – Ann Petry (CW)The Care and Feeding of Ravenously Hungry Girls – Anissa Gray (EF)The Last Woman in the Forest – Diane Les Becquets (CW)Willa Cather Selected Stories: Flavia and Her Artists – Willa Cather (CW) part of the Willa Cather Short Story Project on WildmooBooks– Biblio Adventures –Chris and Emily caught up with Min Jin Lee at Yale University on 2/18/19Chris and Emily went on a joint jaunt to the John F. Kennedy Presidential Library and Museum in BostonOn the way home we stopped at Riff Raff Bookstore in Providence, RI. We both bought books: Go, Went, Gone by Jenny Erpenbeck (CW) and Tell Me How It Ends: An Essay in 40 Questions by Valeria Luiselli (EF)Emily went to Infinity Hall on Hartford on 2/23/19 to see a SpeakUp Storytelling event– Upcoming Jaunts –We will head on a joint jaunt on 3/5/19 to see a panel including Roxane Gay discussing Writing Trauma at Yale UniversityEmily will go to Long Wharf Theater to see a play based on the book Tiny Beautiful Things by Cheryl StrayedEmily is heading to Fort Lauderdale for work and will go on the hunt for bookstores!On 3/7/19 Chris is heading to the Guilford Library for an historical event, The Witness Stones Project and Harriet Beecher Stowe Center present: Guilford, Slavery, and the West Indian Trade– Upcoming Reads –The Necessary Hunger – Nina Revoyr (CW)Women in the Literary Landscape – edited by Doris Weatherford, Rosalind Reisner, and Nancy Rubin Stuart (CW)Heavy: An American Memoir – Kiese Laymon (EF)The Wartime Sisters – Lynda Cohen Loigman (EF)The Quintland Sisters – Shelley Wood (EF)– Also Mentioned –Alison Law – Literary Atlanta PodcastMaria Popova – brainpickingsMarie KondoCaroline Leavitt – Check out her blog with great author interviewsJonah’s Gourd Vine – Zora Neale HurstonNevada Barr and The Track of the CatDiane Les Becquets EventsMin Jin Lee: On Selling Your First Novel After 11 YearsBook by John F Kennedy: Profiles in CourageA Student of History – Nina RevoyrThe Masterpiece – Fiona DavisA Long, Long Time Ago and Essentially True – Brigid Pasulka