Your Shelf or Mine

Nora Ephron

Where we talk about the works of Nora Ephron, including:

Everything Is Copy (HBO Documentary); 
Wallflower at the Orgy; 
Crazy Salad; 
Heartburn (novel); 
Silkwood; 
When Harry Met Sally; 
Sleepless in Seattle; 
Mixed Nuts; 
Michael; 
You've Got Mail; 
Hanging Up; 
Julie & Julia; 
I Feel Bad About My Neck; 

and more!

introductory reading from "Heartburn."

Ursula K. Le Guin

with special guest James Newkirk!

Where we talk about:

Ursula K. Le Guin's 
"The Wave in the Mind," 
"A Wizard of Earthsea," 
"The Tombs of Atuan," 
"Solitude" (included in the anthology "Diverse Energies"),  
"The Left Hand of Darkness," 
"The Language of the Night," 
"Is Gender Necessary?" 
"Dancing at the Edge of the World," 
"Catwings"

and:
"Tales from Earthsea" directed by Goro Miyazaki; 
"The Left Hand of Darkness" BBC Radio 4 Full-Cast Dramatization; 
2014 National Book Award Speech video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s2v7RDyo7os 

text: https://parkerhiggins.net/2014/11/will-need-writers-can-remember-freedom-ursula-k-le-guin-national-book-awards/ 

introductory reading from "A Wizard of Earthsea." 

Toni Morrison

Where we talk about Toni Morrison! Including:

"The Bluest Eye;" 
"Beloved;" 
"Home;" 
"Song of Solomon;" 
"Remember: the journey to school integration;" 

"Toni Morrison: The Pieces I Am" directed by Timothy Greenfield-Sanders; 
"The Radical Vision of Toni Morrison" by Rachel Kaadzi Ghansah https://www.nytimes.com/2015/04/12/magazine/the-radical-vision-of-toni-morrison.html

and mention:
"Miss Chloe: a memoir of a literary friendship with Toni Morrison" by A.J. Verdelle; 
"The Toni Morrison Book Club" by Piper Kendrix Williams, Cassandra Jackson, Winnifred R. Brown-Glaude, and Juda Bennett.

Introductory excerpt from "The Bluest Eye."

Susan Orlean

Where we talk about:

The work of Susan Orlean:

The Orchid Thief; 
The Library Book; 
Rin Tin Tin; 

Dogs of War by Sheila Keenan;

and more!

Louise Erdrich

Where we talk about:

RFID tagging; 
These Precious Days by Ann Patchett; 
Louise Erdrich; 
Birchbark Books; 
LaRose; 
The Round House; 
The Plague of Doves; 
The Sentence; 
The Birchbark House; 
The Night Watchman; 
Love Medicine; 
The Beet Queen; 
Tracks; 
The Blue Jay's Dance; 
Books and Islands in Ojibwe Country; 
The Last Report on the Miracles at Little No Horse; 
Tales of Burning Love; 

and more!

Intro excerpt from the first edition of Love Medicine, 1984

Armistead Maupin

Where we talk about:

Armistead Maupin; 
Tales of the City (1978 book); 
Tales of the City (1993 TV miniseries); 
More Tales of the City (1980 book); 
The Untold Tales of Armistead Maupin (2017 documentary); 

and more!

Herman Melville

Where we talk about:

Herman Melville; 
Moby Dick; 
Bartleby the Scrivener;
Billy Budd; 
Herman Melville at Home by Jill Lepore: https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2019/07/29/herman-melville-at-home ; 

The Beige Moth blog: https://beigemoth.blog/moby-dick/ ; 

In the Heart of the Sea; 
Drifting Dragons; 

and more!

David Rakoff

Where we talk about:

Seed Library; 
NW Voices: http://longviewlibrary.org/nwvoices.php ; 
David Rakoff; 
Love, Dishonor, Marry, Die, Cherish, Perish; 
Half Empty

and more!

Our Friend David: https://www.thisamericanlife.org/472/transcript ; 
Invisible Made Visible: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4P7V0UKySaI ; 
Lindsey Ellis on Rent: https://youtube.com/watch?v=q0qfFbtIj5w ; 
Article from 2020: https://www.timesofisrael.com/locked-down-open-up-to-david-rakoffs-defensively-pessimistic-wit/ ; 
Poems to get you through hard times: https://www.oprah.com/spirit/poems-that-get-you-through-hard-times/all ; 
Ira Glass on making the audiobook: https://www.nytimes.com/2013/07/07/books/david-rakoffs-last-deadline.html ; 

Beverly Cleary

with Joanne Dallas, Austin Brigden, and Jakob Collins

where we talk about:

Story Walks; 
Fatima's Great Outdoors by Ambreen Tariq; 
Oi Frog! by Kes Gray; 

Beverly Cleary; 
Drop Everything and Read Day; 
Henry Huggins; 
A Girl from Yamhill; 
Ramona the Pest; 
Ramona and her Mother; 
Beezus and Ramona; 
My Own Two Feet; 
Dear Mr. Henshaw; 
Walking with Ramona: Exploring Beverly Cleary's Portland by Laura O. Foster; 
https://microcosmpublishing.com/catalog/books/6456 

Beverly Cleary Endowed Professorship: https://ischool.uw.edu/faculty-affairs/beverly-cleary-professorship 

Corrections:
Beverly Clearly was 104 when she died; 
Becky refers to Beverly several times as "Ramona." :) 

Excerpt from "Ramona the Pest" by Beverly Cleary, published by Harper Collins Publishers.

Jason Reynolds

excerpt from "Long Way Down," by Jason Reynolds, published by Simon and Schuster.

Where we talk about:

the work of Jason Reynolds; 
Long Way Down; 
Ghost; 
All American Boys; 
Brendan Kiely; 
Ain't Burned All the Bright; 
Jason Griffin;
Stuntboy, in the Meantime; 
Raul the Third. His picture books are the "Vamos!" series: "Vamos! Let's Go to the Market," "Vamos! Let's Go Eat!" and "Vamos! Let's Cross the Bridge."

Tired as F*ck by Caroline Dooner; 
Breathing Fire by Jaime Lowe; 

and more!