In this month's Books & Whatnot, Beth Golay and Suzanne Perez talk about poetry, book clubs, and listener-submitted shelfies!
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Books (and whatnot) discussed in this episode:
- The Grapes of Wrath by John Steinbeck
- Take What You Need by Idra Novey
- Ways to Disappear by Idra Novey
- Chlorine by Jade Song
- Sea of Tranquility by Emily St. John Mandel
- Station Eleven by Emily St. John Mandel
- The Glass Hotel by Emily St. John Mandel
- The Lola Quartet by Emily St. John Mandel
- The Book of Goose by Yiyun Li
- Babel: Or the Necessity of Violence: An Arcane History of the Oxford Translators' Revolution by R. F. Kuang
- I Take My Coffee Black by Tyler Merritt
- Before You Call the Cops – The Tyler Merritt Project
- It. Goes. So. Fast.: The Year of No Do-Overs by Mary Louise Kelly
- I Have Some Questions for You by Rebecca Makkai
- God Themselves by Jae Nichelle
- “Friends With Benefits” by Jae Nichelle
- “The Hill We Climb” by Amanda Gorman
- Can’t We Talk About Something More Pleasant by Roz Chast
- Panel discussion with local doctors, moderated by Suzanne Perez
- Pineapple Street by Jenny Jackson
- You Could Make This Place Beautiful by Maggie Smith
- Keep Moving: Notes on Loss, Creativity, and Change by Maggie Smith
- “Good Bones” by Maggie Smith
- Goldenrod by Maggie Smith
- Society of Shame by Jane Roper
- So You’ve Been Publicly Shamed by Jon Ronson
- Saturday Night at the Lakeside Supper Club by J. Ryan Stradal
- Kitchens of the Great Midwest by J. Ryan Stradal
- The Lager Queen of Minnesota by J. Ryan Stradal
- Albert Goldbarth
- Jeanine Hathaway
- Maggie Smith
- Jericho Brown
- Aaron Brown
- Kwame Alexander
- Jason Reynolds
- Ilya Kaminsky
- Idra Novey
- Ada Lemon
- Ross Gay
- Kevin Young
- Good Poems by Garrison Keillor
- Good Poems for Hard Times by Garrison Keillor
- Good Poems: American Places by Garrison Keillor
- She Walks in Beauty: A Woman’s Journey Through Poems by Caroline Kennedy
- 1914 Book Club
- Lessons in Chemistry by Bonnie Garmus
