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