Thinking in Stories: Muna Mitchell

Engineer and runner Muna Mitchell joins us to discuss the pleasures of process, thinking in stories, and even book art. Intro and outro music: "Your Love Hip Hop" courtesy Music_Unlimited on Pixabay. Episode artwork: Screenshot, Anatomy of a Murder [cropped]. Public domain image courtesy Wikimedia Commons. Want to learn more about the books—and shows!—we talked about on this episode? Check out the list below. You can also find us on LibraryThing, Goodreads, and Mastodon—and show your support at Liberapay! Jean M. Auel The Earth's Children series Jane Austen Nicholson Baker The Mezzanine James Baldwin Go Tell It on the Mountain Leonard Baskin Carl Boyer A History of Mathematics Michael Connelly Resurrection Walk Alain Delon Helen DeWitt "Scribbling" Jared Diamond Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies Emily Dickinson                                     "Tell all the truth but tell it slant" Annie Dillard The Writing Life Malcolm Gladwell Yuval Noah Harari                                 Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind Edward Hirsch "Fast Break" Friedrich Hölderlin Selected Poems of Friedrich Hölderlin (translated by Maxine Chernoff & Paul Hoover) Nick Hornby Ted Hughes Crow Jedidiah Jenkins To Shake the Sleeping Self Daniel Kahneman Thinking, Fast and Slow M. M. Kaye The Far Pavilions Marian Keyes My Favorite Mistake Mark Kurlansky 1968: The Year that Rocked the World Stieg Larsson The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo London Review of Books J. D. McClatchy, ed. Poets on Painters: Essays on the Art of Painting by Twentieth-Century Poets Colleen McCullough The Thorn Birds Jean-Pierre Melville Le Cercle rouge (The Red Circle) Jean-Pierre Melville Le Samouraï Jean-Pierre Melville Un flic (A Cop) Vincente Minnelli Brigadoon Margaret Mitchell Gone with the Wind Friedrich Nietzsche Shaquille O'Neal Robert M. Pirsig Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance: An Inquiry into Values Poetry in America Radiolab J. K. Rowling Edward Said J. D. Salinger Adam Shatz Writers and Missionaries: Essays on the Radical Imagination Shel Silverstein The Giving Tree Zadie Smith David Strathairn Booker T. Washington Up from Slavery: An Autobiography Walt Whitman "The Wound-Dresser" Dick Wolf / Rick EidLaw & Order