Pauls tells James about his new book, DOG GONE, his path to sobriety, his favorite pencil, and how his life has (thankfully) changed since their days at Middlebury College. Plus Emily Crowe from Odyssey Bookshop suggests summer reading (listed below), discusses the value of independent bookstores, and makes suggestions for a good book event.
James and Pauls Discuss:
Baker & Spice Bakery Portland, OR
Oakley Skis
Tesla Automobiles
The Rotring Tikky- The Official Pencil of Pauls Toutonghi
Knopf
Salman Rushdie
Bill Clegg
Tim O’Connell
Renee Zuckerbrot
LitHub
Joy Williams
Karen Russell
Jim Shepard
GOODHOUSE by Peyton Marshall
Skip Horack
Printer’s Row Book Festival
Watermark Books
Jay Parini
Emily and James discuss:
HOMEGOING by Yaa Giasi*
THE SPORT OF KINGS by C.E. Morgan*
THE PRINCE & THE PAUPER by Mark Twain
ALL THE LIVING by C.E. Morgan
CHURCH OF MARVELS by Leslie Parry*
THE ROAD by Cormac McCarthy
THE REASON I JUMP by Naoki Higashida (translated by David Mitchell)*
Tom Franklin & Beth Ann Fennelly
*= Summer reading recommendation