Oct 18, 2021
I had a hard time keeping my cool when I chatted with Jeremy Patlen, Director of Buying at Tattered Cover Bookstore in Denver, Colorado, one of the world’s best bookstores in one of the world’s best cities. Jeremy and I talked about the artist’s life and the cities that sustain it, the joys of opera, and a heartbreaking and beautiful memoir by Patti Smith.
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Host: Julie Strauss
Guest: Jeremy Patlen
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Discussed in this episode:
(Also check out this gorgeous Illustrated Edition)
Comfort Me With Apples by Catherynne M. Valente
Comfort Me With Apples: More Adventures at the Table by Ruth Reichl
Save Me the Plums: My Gourmet Memoir by Ruth Reichl
Robert Mapplethorpe: The Photographs
My Accidental Visit to the Pandemic’s Party Capital (New York Times)
My Heart is a Chainsaw by Stephen Graham Jones
Harlem Shuffle: A Novel by Colson Whitehead
Beautiful Country: A Memoir by Qian Julie Wang
The Inheritance of Orquídea Divina: A Novel by Zoraida Córdova
Love in the Time of Cholera by Gabriel García Márquez
Sea of Tranquility by Emily St. John Mandel
Beautiful World, Where Are You by Sally Rooney
Discussed in our Patreon Segment
Born to Run by Bruce Springsteen
What Happened by Hillary Rodham Clinton
(FYI - there is also a version of this book adapted for young readers, as well as a Becoming Guided Journal for Discovering Your Voice – these would make fantastic gifts for the young readers in your life!)
A Promised Land by Barack Obama
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