<h2 class="p1" style="text-align: center;"> <strong>Epigraph</strong></h2> <p>Welcome to Episode 18, our first ever LIVE show, recorded on September 28th at <a href="https://www.kingsbookstore.com/">King's Books in Tacoma, WA</a>. We rapid-fire interviewed three booksellers and two authors. Surprisingly, the audio is better than episodes recorded in the comfort of our homes.</p> <p class="p2">Listen on <a href= "https://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/drunk-booksellers-the-podcast/id998365564"><span class="s1">Apple Podcasts</span></a>, <a href= "http://www.stitcher.com/podcast/drunk-booksellers"><span class= "s1">Stitcher</span></a>, our <a href= "http://drunkbooksellers.com/"><span class="s1">website</span></a>, or subscribe using your podcatcher of choice.</p> <p class="p2"><strong>Support the show!</strong> All books in our show notes link to <a href= "https://www.indiebound.org/?aff=DrunkBooksellers">Indiebound</a>, a website that connects you with your local independent bookstore. Purchases made through our affiliate links help fund Drunk Booksellers, so you can support your favorite indie bookstore <em>and</em> your favorite podcasting booksellers. #win</p> <p class="p2">If you want to get our show notes delivered directly to your inbox—with all the books mentioned on the podcast and links to the books we discuss—sign up for our email <a href= "http://eepurl.com/cCHu2T"><span class= "s1">newsletter</span></a>.</p> <p class="p2">This episode is sponsored by <a href= "https://softskull.com/">Soft Skull</a>, <a href= "https://www.counterpointpress.com/">Counterpoint</a>, and <a href= "https://catapult.co/">Catapult</a>. Special thanks to Joe and Stephanie Douglas, Big Hair Studios, Allen Watke, Phil Heaven and the <a href= "https://www.facebook.com/Midnight-Mystery-Players-133163840057747/"> Midnight Mystery Players</a>, and George Kaas for the equipment loan that made this recording possible. And of course thanks to Sam Kaas (who longtime listeners may recognize from <a href= "http://drunkbooksellers.com/ep-7-sam-kaas-village-books">Episode 7</a>) our production manager without whom this whole episode would not have been amplified, recorded, nor kept on track.</p> <h2 class="p1" style="text-align: center;"><strong>Chapter I: [2:51]</strong></h2> <p class="p2" style="text-align: center;"><em>In Which We Order a Mistress, Discuss Female Rage, and Are Def Profesh at This Whole Live Show Thing</em></p> <p class="p2" style="text-align: center;"> </p> <p class="p2"><strong>Kim's Drinking: </strong>Hop Valley Citrus Mistress</p> <p class="p2"><strong>Emma's Drinking: </strong>Elysian Men's Room</p> <p class="p2"><strong>Kim's Reading:</strong></p> <ul> <li class="p2"><a href= "https://www.indiebound.org/book/9780375815300?aff=DrunkBooksellers"> The Book of Dust 1: La Belle Sauvage</a> by Philip Pullman</li> </ul> <p class="p2"><strong>Emma's Reading & Excited About:</strong></p> <ul> <li class="p2"><a href= "https://www.indiebound.org/book/9781250112576?aff=DrunkBooksellers"> Eloquent Rage: A Black Feminist Discovers Her Superpower</a> by Brittney C Cooper</li> <li class="p2"><a href= "https://www.indiebound.org/book/9781501181795?aff=DrunkBooksellers"> Good and Mad</a> by Rebecca Traister</li> </ul> <p class="p2">Emma is really into female rage right now, nbd.</p> <p class="p2"><img style= "display: block; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;" src= "https://media3.giphy.com/media/l2QZWOgzaWBt4VWZW/giphy.gif?cid=3640f6095bcd389c5373795a6f8a32f9" alt="Annie Screaming" width="600" height="335" /></p> <p class="p2"><strong>Kim's Excited About:</strong></p> <ul> <li class="p2"><a href= "https://www.indiebound.org/book/9781593762919?aff=DrunkBooksellers"> Vanishing Twins: A Marriage</a> by Leah Dieterich</li> <li class="p2">also mentioned, <a href= "https://www.indiebound.org/book/9780316393843?aff=DrunkBooksellers"> And Now We Have Everything: On Motherhood Before I Was Ready</a> by Meaghan O'Connell because (spoiler alert) we interview both authors later in the episode!</li> </ul> <h2 class="p1" style="text-align: center;"><strong>Chapter II: [7:25]</strong></h2> <p class="p2" style="text-align: center;"><em>In Which We Talk About Big Books and Definitely Lie, Kim Gushes Over Leah Dieterich, and We Suggest People Stop Listening to Us and Buy Books Instead</em></p> <p class="p2" style="text-align: center;"><span style= "font-size: 14pt;"><strong>sweet pea Flaherty, owner of <a href= "https://www.kingsbookstore.com/">King's Books</a> in Tacoma, WA</strong></span></p> <p class="p2"><img style= "display: block; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;" src= "https://assets.libsyn.com/secure/show/67882/sweetpeaflaherty.jpg" alt="sweet pea Flaherty" width="400" height="400" /></p> <p class="p2">For the record, <a href= "https://www.roomofonesown.com/">A Room of One's Own</a> is still a feminist bookstore</p> <p class="p2"><img style= "display: block; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;" src= "https://media2.giphy.com/media/2jBZf6rivW2T6/giphy.gif?cid=3640f6095bcd395b302f7856557b435b" alt="Jessica Day feminist rants" width="400" height="296" /></p> <p class="p2"><a href="https://www.kingsbookstore.com/">King's Books</a> has <em>fourteen </em><a href= "https://www.kingsbookstore.com/bookclubs">book clubs,</a> including one that only reads books about <a href= "https://www.kingsbookstore.com/cultclassics">cults</a> and one that only reads books about <a href= "https://www.kingsbookstore.com/literarymedicine">medical issues.</a> They also have such unconventional events as virtual reality film showings and 80s workout nights (#Cher).</p> <p class="p2"><strong>sweet pea's Reading:</strong></p> <ul> <li class="p2"><a href= "https://www.indiebound.org/book/9781883285760?af=DrunkBooksellers"> Before She Sleeps</a> by Bina Shah</li> </ul> <p class="p2"><strong>sweet pea's Excited About:</strong></p> <ul> <li class="p2"><a href= "https://www.indiebound.org/book/9781936932375?aff=DrunkBooksellers"> Training School for Negro Girls</a> by Camille Acker</li> <li class="p2"><a href= "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nannie_Helen_Burroughs">Nanny Helen Burroughs</a> (she's a person, not a book—but sweet pea wishes there was a book about her)</li> </ul> <p class="p2"><strong>sweet pea's Desert Island Pick:</strong></p> <ul> <li class="p2">a book large enough to act as a sun hat<strong><img src= "https://giphy.com/gifs/wtf-book-hat-CT7rg4d4ogBQk" alt= "" /></strong></li> </ul> <p class="p2"><strong><img style= "display: block; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;" src= "https://media0.giphy.com/media/CT7rg4d4ogBQk/giphy.gif?cid=3640f6095bcd3a7979686a512e716b57" alt="Peter Pan book hat" width="350" height="176" /></strong></p> <ul> <li><a href= "https://www.indiebound.org/book/9780060838676?aff=DrunkBooksellers"> Their Eyes Were Watching God</a> by Zora Neale Hurston</li> </ul> <p class="p2"><strong>sweet pea's Bookseller Confession:</strong></p> <ul> <li class="p2">"being a bookstore owner and event planner and bookkeeper and etc... that I don't have a lot of time to read"</li> </ul> <p>Uh, can all the booksellers whose "confession" this is raise their hands?</p> <p><img style= "display: block; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;" src= "https://media2.giphy.com/media/xT9KVwVraalcvmKBfW/giphy.gif?cid=3640f6095bcd48fa736943726f9d20fc" alt="Mean Girls hands raised" width="480" height="270" /></p> <p><strong>sweet pea's Favorite Bookstore:</strong></p> <ul> <li>a bookstore in the back of an antique store in Knoxville, TN (if you know what bookstore this is, tweet us!)</li> <li><a href="http://www.dicksonstreetbooks.com/">Dixon Street Bookshop</a> in Fayetteville, AR</li> </ul> <p><strong>Find sweet pea On the Internets:</strong></p> <ul> <li><a href="https://www.facebook.com/mrsweetpea">Facebook</a></li> <li><a href="https://twitter.com/beverlyqueery">Twitter</a></li> <li><a href= "https://www.instagram.com/beverlyqueery/">Instagram</a></li> <li><a href="https://www.kingsbookstore.com/">King's Books</a> <ul> <li><a href= "https://www.facebook.com/kingsbooks/">Facebook</a></li> <li><a href="https://twitter.com/kingsbooks">Twitter</a></li> <li><a href= "https://www.instagram.com/kingsbooks/?hl=en">Instagram</a></li> </ul> </li> </ul> <p>Facebook doesn't let you have "queer" in your name and challenged sweet pea's legal name twice</p> <p class="p2"><img style= "display: block; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;" src= "https://media3.giphy.com/media/Stl1BnsWSOerK/giphy.gif?cid=3640f6095bcd3ba2476e497a6f82cfa0" alt="Princess Bride Boo" width="400" height="298" /></p> <p class="p2" style="text-align: center;"><span style= "font-size: 14pt;"><strong>Our first guest author, <a href= "https://www.leahdieterich.com/">Leah Dieterich</a>, is the author of <a href= "https://www.indiebound.org/book/9781593762919?aff=DrunkBooksellers"> Vanishing Twins</a> (<a href="https://softskull.com/">Soft Skull</a>)</strong></span></p> <p class="p2"><img style= "display: block; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;" src= "https://assets.libsyn.com/secure/show/67882/Leah_Dieterich_Author_Photo_by_John_Houck.jpg" alt="Leah Dieterich" width="400" height="526" /></p> <p class="p2"><strong>Leah's Reading:</strong></p> <ul> <li class="p2"><a href= "https://www.indiebound.org/book/9781501168741?aff=DrunkBooksellers"> Amateur: A True Story about What Makes a Man</a> by Thomas Page McBee</li> </ul> <p class="p2">This is an artistic rendition of Kim's reaction to Leah's "what are you reading" answer:</p> <p class="p2" style="text-align: center;"><img src= "https://tarynhough.com/pictures/super%20happy%20dog.gif" alt= "excited puppy" width="300" height="226" /></p> <p class="p2">The back covers of Soft Skull's galleys are on point:</p> <p class="p2" style="text-align: center;"> </p> <p class="p2"> </p> <p class="p2"><img style= "transform: rotate(90deg); display: block; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;" src= "https://assets.libsyn.com/secure/show/67882/Vanishing_Twins_Galley.jpg" alt="Vanishing Twins galley" width="400" height="300" /></p> <p class="p2"> </p> <p class="p2"> </p> <p class="p2"><strong>Leah's Favorite Bookstore(s):</strong></p> <ul> <li class="p2"><a href="https://www.skylightbooks.com/">Skylight Books</a> in Los Angeles, CA</li> <li class="p2"><a href="https://www.powells.com/">Powell's</a> in Portland, OR</li> </ul> <p><strong>Find Leah on the Internets:</strong></p> <ul> <li><a href= "https://www.facebook.com/leah.dieterich">Facebook</a></li> <li><a href="https://twitter.com/LeahDieterich">Twitter</a></li> <li><a href= "https://www.instagram.com/andthetidewaswayout/?hl=en">Instagram</a></li> </ul> <p><a href= "https://www.indiebound.org/book/9781593762919?aff=DrunkBooksellers"> <img style="display: block; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;" src= "https://assets.libsyn.com/secure/show/67882/Vanishing_Twins_cvr_72dpi_web_res.jpg" alt="Vanishing Twins Cover" width="396" height="594" /></a></p> <h2 class="p1" style="text-align: center;"><strong>Chapter III: [22:03]</strong></h2> <p style="text-align: center;"><em>In Which We Discuss Sex With Frog Men, Realize America Is Doing Bookstores Wrong, and We Make the Audience Curse In Unison</em></p> <p style="text-align: center;"><span style= "font-size: 14pt;"><strong>Ariana Paliobagis, owner of <a href="https://www.countrybookshelf.com/">Country Bookshelf</a> in Bozeman, MT</strong></span></p> <p style="text-align: center;"><span style= "font-size: 14pt;"><strong><img src= "https://assets.libsyn.com/secure/show/67882/facebook_1540178016708.jpg" alt="Ariana Paliobagis" width="400" height= "400" /></strong></span></p> <p><strong>Ariana's Reading:</strong></p> <ul> <li><a href= "https://www.indiebound.org/book/9780811226691?aff=DrunkBooksellers"> Mrs. Caliban</a> by Rachel Ingalls <ul> <li>"a woman falls in love with a frog man; [he] shows up at her door... and she takes him in, in all the ways"</li> </ul> </li> </ul> <p><img style= "display: block; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;" src= "https://media3.giphy.com/media/3oKIP6w9AnIcjIre5a/giphy.gif?cid=3640f6095bcd4086432e537945026b2d" alt="bow chicka bow wow" width="480" height="386" /></p> <p><strong>Ariana's Excited About:</strong></p> <ul> <li><a href= "https://www.indiebound.org/book/9780062851963?aff=DrunkBooksellers"> Trinity</a> by Louisa Hall (also mentioned, <a href= "https://www.indiebound.org/book/9780062391209?aff=DrunkBooksellers"> Speak</a> by Louisa Hall)</li> </ul> <p><strong>Ariana's Station Eleven Pick:</strong></p> <ul> <li><a href= "https://www.indiebound.org/book/9780374533656?aff=DrunkBooksellers"> What Money Can't Buy: The Moral Limits of Markets</a> by Michael J Sandel</li> </ul> <p>We are impressed by Ariana's practicality and thus let her, and the audience, in on our secret post-apocalypse library. </p> <p><a href= "http://literaryman.com/2012/11/13/makings-of-a-book-fort-in-suspicious-looking-warehouse/"> <img style="display: block; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;" src= "http://theliteraryman.files.wordpress.com/2012/11/bookcastle.jpg" alt="book fort" width="600" height="394" /></a></p> <p><strong>Ariana's Impossible Handsell:</strong></p> <ul> <li><a href= "https://www.indiebound.org/book/9781590171790?aff=DrunkBooksellers"> English, August: An Indian Story</a> by Upamanyu Chatterjee (also mentioned, <a href= "https://www.indiebound.org/book/9780525522119?aff=DrunkBooksellers"> My Year of Rest and Relaxation</a> by Ottessa Moshfegh)</li> </ul> <p><strong>Ariana's Favorite Bookstore:</strong></p> <ul> <li><a href="http://www.librairieactessud.com/">Librairie Actes Sud</a> (it's in France, be jealous)</li> </ul> <p><strong>Find Ariana On the Internets:</strong></p> <ul> <li><a href= "https://www.facebook.com/ariana.paliobagis">Facebook</a></li> <li><a href="https://twitter.com/bookcentric">Twitter</a></li> <li><a href= "https://www.instagram.com/bookcentric/">Instagram</a></li> <li><a href="https://www.countrybookshelf.com/">Country Bookshelf</a> <ul> <li><a href= "https://www.facebook.com/countrybookshelf">Facebook</a></li> <li><a href="https://twitter.com/countrybkshelf">Twitter</a></li> <li><a href= "https://www.instagram.com/countrybookshelf/">Instagram</a></li> </ul> </li> </ul> <p style="text-align: center;"><span style= "font-size: 14pt;"><strong>Our second guest author is <a href= "http://www.meaghano.com/">Meaghan O'Connell</a>, author of <a href="https://www.indiebound.org/book/9780316393843?aff=DrunkBooksellers"> And Now We Have Everything</a> (<a href= "https://www.littlebrown.com/">Little, Brown and Company</a>)</strong></span></p> <p style="text-align: right;"><a href= "http://www.meaghano.com/about/"><strong><img style= "display: block; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;" src= "https://assets.libsyn.com/secure/show/67882/MeaghanOConnell.jpg" alt="Meaghan O'Connell" width="400" height= "267" /><
![<h2 class="p1" style="text-align: center;"> <strong>Epigraph</strong></h2> <p>Welcome to Episode 18, our first ever LIVE show, recorded on September 28th at <a href="https://www.kingsbookstore.com/">King's Books in Tacoma, WA</a>. We rapid-fire interviewed three booksellers and two authors. Surprisingly, the audio is better than episodes recorded in the comfort of our homes.</p> <p class="p2">Listen on <a href= "https://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/drunk-booksellers-the-podcast/id998365564"><span class="s1">Apple Podcasts</span></a>, <a href= "http://www.stitcher.com/podcast/drunk-booksellers"><span class= "s1">Stitcher</span></a>, our <a href= "http://drunkbooksellers.com/"><span class="s1">website</span></a>, or subscribe using your podcatcher of choice.</p> <p class="p2"><strong>Support the show!</strong> All books in our show notes link to <a href= "https://www.indiebound.org/?aff=DrunkBooksellers">Indiebound</a>, a website that connects you with your local independent bookstore. Purchases made through our affiliate links help fund Drunk Booksellers, so you can support your favorite indie bookstore <em>and</em> your favorite podcasting booksellers. #win</p> <p class="p2">If you want to get our show notes delivered directly to your inbox—with all the books mentioned on the podcast and links to the books we discuss—sign up for our email <a href= "http://eepurl.com/cCHu2T"><span class= "s1">newsletter</span></a>.</p> <p class="p2">This episode is sponsored by <a href= "https://softskull.com/">Soft Skull</a>, <a href= "https://www.counterpointpress.com/">Counterpoint</a>, and <a href= "https://catapult.co/">Catapult</a>. Special thanks to Joe and Stephanie Douglas, Big Hair Studios, Allen Watke, Phil Heaven and the <a href= "https://www.facebook.com/Midnight-Mystery-Players-133163840057747/"> Midnight Mystery Players</a>, and George Kaas for the equipment loan that made this recording possible. And of course thanks to Sam Kaas (who longtime listeners may recognize from <a href= "http://drunkbooksellers.com/ep-7-sam-kaas-village-books">Episode 7</a>) our production manager without whom this whole episode would not have been amplified, recorded, nor kept on track.</p> <h2 class="p1" style="text-align: center;"><strong>Chapter I: [2:51]</strong></h2> <p class="p2" style="text-align: center;"><em>In Which We Order a Mistress, Discuss Female Rage, and Are Def Profesh at This Whole Live Show Thing</em></p> <p class="p2" style="text-align: center;"> </p> <p class="p2"><strong>Kim's Drinking: </strong>Hop Valley Citrus Mistress</p> <p class="p2"><strong>Emma's Drinking: </strong>Elysian Men's Room</p> <p class="p2"><strong>Kim's Reading:</strong></p> <ul> <li class="p2"><a href= "https://www.indiebound.org/book/9780375815300?aff=DrunkBooksellers"> The Book of Dust 1: La Belle Sauvage</a> by Philip Pullman</li> </ul> <p class="p2"><strong>Emma's Reading & Excited About:</strong></p> <ul> <li class="p2"><a href= "https://www.indiebound.org/book/9781250112576?aff=DrunkBooksellers"> Eloquent Rage: A Black Feminist Discovers Her Superpower</a> by Brittney C Cooper</li> <li class="p2"><a href= "https://www.indiebound.org/book/9781501181795?aff=DrunkBooksellers"> Good and Mad</a> by Rebecca Traister</li> </ul> <p class="p2">Emma is really into female rage right now, nbd.</p> <p class="p2"><img style= "display: block; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;" src= "https://media3.giphy.com/media/l2QZWOgzaWBt4VWZW/giphy.gif?cid=3640f6095bcd389c5373795a6f8a32f9" alt="Annie Screaming" width="600" height="335" /></p> <p class="p2"><strong>Kim's Excited About:</strong></p> <ul> <li class="p2"><a href= "https://www.indiebound.org/book/9781593762919?aff=DrunkBooksellers"> Vanishing Twins: A Marriage</a> by Leah Dieterich</li> <li class="p2">also mentioned, <a href= "https://www.indiebound.org/book/9780316393843?aff=DrunkBooksellers"> And Now We Have Everything: On Motherhood Before I Was Ready</a> by Meaghan O'Connell because (spoiler alert) we interview both authors later in the episode!</li> </ul> <h2 class="p1" style="text-align: center;"><strong>Chapter II: [7:25]</strong></h2> <p class="p2" style="text-align: center;"><em>In Which We Talk About Big Books and Definitely Lie, Kim Gushes Over Leah Dieterich, and We Suggest People Stop Listening to Us and Buy Books Instead</em></p> <p class="p2" style="text-align: center;"><span style= "font-size: 14pt;"><strong>sweet pea Flaherty, owner of <a href= "https://www.kingsbookstore.com/">King's Books</a> in Tacoma, WA</strong></span></p> <p class="p2"><img style= "display: block; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;" src= "https://assets.libsyn.com/secure/show/67882/sweetpeaflaherty.jpg" alt="sweet pea Flaherty" width="400" height="400" /></p> <p class="p2">For the record, <a href= "https://www.roomofonesown.com/">A Room of One's Own</a> is still a feminist bookstore</p> <p class="p2"><img style= "display: block; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;" src= "https://media2.giphy.com/media/2jBZf6rivW2T6/giphy.gif?cid=3640f6095bcd395b302f7856557b435b" alt="Jessica Day feminist rants" width="400" height="296" /></p> <p class="p2"><a href="https://www.kingsbookstore.com/">King's Books</a> has <em>fourteen </em><a href= "https://www.kingsbookstore.com/bookclubs">book clubs,</a> including one that only reads books about <a href= "https://www.kingsbookstore.com/cultclassics">cults</a> and one that only reads books about <a href= "https://www.kingsbookstore.com/literarymedicine">medical issues.</a> They also have such unconventional events as virtual reality film showings and 80s workout nights (#Cher).</p> <p class="p2"><strong>sweet pea's Reading:</strong></p> <ul> <li class="p2"><a href= "https://www.indiebound.org/book/9781883285760?af=DrunkBooksellers"> Before She Sleeps</a> by Bina Shah</li> </ul> <p class="p2"><strong>sweet pea's Excited About:</strong></p> <ul> <li class="p2"><a href= "https://www.indiebound.org/book/9781936932375?aff=DrunkBooksellers"> Training School for Negro Girls</a> by Camille Acker</li> <li class="p2"><a href= "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nannie_Helen_Burroughs">Nanny Helen Burroughs</a> (she's a person, not a book—but sweet pea wishes there was a book about her)</li> </ul> <p class="p2"><strong>sweet pea's Desert Island Pick:</strong></p> <ul> <li class="p2">a book large enough to act as a sun hat<strong><img src= "https://giphy.com/gifs/wtf-book-hat-CT7rg4d4ogBQk" alt= "" /></strong></li> </ul> <p class="p2"><strong><img style= "display: block; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;" src= "https://media0.giphy.com/media/CT7rg4d4ogBQk/giphy.gif?cid=3640f6095bcd3a7979686a512e716b57" alt="Peter Pan book hat" width="350" height="176" /></strong></p> <ul> <li><a href= "https://www.indiebound.org/book/9780060838676?aff=DrunkBooksellers"> Their Eyes Were Watching God</a> by Zora Neale Hurston</li> </ul> <p class="p2"><strong>sweet pea's Bookseller Confession:</strong></p> <ul> <li class="p2">"being a bookstore owner and event planner and bookkeeper and etc... that I don't have a lot of time to read"</li> </ul> <p>Uh, can all the booksellers whose "confession" this is raise their hands?</p> <p><img style= "display: block; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;" src= "https://media2.giphy.com/media/xT9KVwVraalcvmKBfW/giphy.gif?cid=3640f6095bcd48fa736943726f9d20fc" alt="Mean Girls hands raised" width="480" height="270" /></p> <p><strong>sweet pea's Favorite Bookstore:</strong></p> <ul> <li>a bookstore in the back of an antique store in Knoxville, TN (if you know what bookstore this is, tweet us!)</li> <li><a href="http://www.dicksonstreetbooks.com/">Dixon Street Bookshop</a> in Fayetteville, AR</li> </ul> <p><strong>Find sweet pea On the Internets:</strong></p> <ul> <li><a href="https://www.facebook.com/mrsweetpea">Facebook</a></li> <li><a href="https://twitter.com/beverlyqueery">Twitter</a></li> <li><a href= "https://www.instagram.com/beverlyqueery/">Instagram</a></li> <li><a href="https://www.kingsbookstore.com/">King's Books</a> <ul> <li><a href= "https://www.facebook.com/kingsbooks/">Facebook</a></li> <li><a href="https://twitter.com/kingsbooks">Twitter</a></li> <li><a href= "https://www.instagram.com/kingsbooks/?hl=en">Instagram</a></li> </ul> </li> </ul> <p>Facebook doesn't let you have "queer" in your name and challenged sweet pea's legal name twice</p> <p class="p2"><img style= "display: block; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;" src= "https://media3.giphy.com/media/Stl1BnsWSOerK/giphy.gif?cid=3640f6095bcd3ba2476e497a6f82cfa0" alt="Princess Bride Boo" width="400" height="298" /></p> <p class="p2" style="text-align: center;"><span style= "font-size: 14pt;"><strong>Our first guest author, <a href= "https://www.leahdieterich.com/">Leah Dieterich</a>, is the author of <a href= "https://www.indiebound.org/book/9781593762919?aff=DrunkBooksellers"> Vanishing Twins</a> (<a href="https://softskull.com/">Soft Skull</a>)</strong></span></p> <p class="p2"><img style= "display: block; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;" src= "https://assets.libsyn.com/secure/show/67882/Leah_Dieterich_Author_Photo_by_John_Houck.jpg" alt="Leah Dieterich" width="400" height="526" /></p> <p class="p2"><strong>Leah's Reading:</strong></p> <ul> <li class="p2"><a href= "https://www.indiebound.org/book/9781501168741?aff=DrunkBooksellers"> Amateur: A True Story about What Makes a Man</a> by Thomas Page McBee</li> </ul> <p class="p2">This is an artistic rendition of Kim's reaction to Leah's "what are you reading" answer:</p> <p class="p2" style="text-align: center;"><img src= "https://tarynhough.com/pictures/super%20happy%20dog.gif" alt= "excited puppy" width="300" height="226" /></p> <p class="p2">The back covers of Soft Skull's galleys are on point:</p> <p class="p2" style="text-align: center;"> </p> <p class="p2"> </p> <p class="p2"><img style= "transform: rotate(90deg); display: block; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;" src= "https://assets.libsyn.com/secure/show/67882/Vanishing_Twins_Galley.jpg" alt="Vanishing Twins galley" width="400" height="300" /></p> <p class="p2"> </p> <p class="p2"> </p> <p class="p2"><strong>Leah's Favorite Bookstore(s):</strong></p> <ul> <li class="p2"><a href="https://www.skylightbooks.com/">Skylight Books</a> in Los Angeles, CA</li> <li class="p2"><a href="https://www.powells.com/">Powell's</a> in Portland, OR</li> </ul> <p><strong>Find Leah on the Internets:</strong></p> <ul> <li><a href= "https://www.facebook.com/leah.dieterich">Facebook</a></li> <li><a href="https://twitter.com/LeahDieterich">Twitter</a></li> <li><a href= "https://www.instagram.com/andthetidewaswayout/?hl=en">Instagram</a></li> </ul> <p><a href= "https://www.indiebound.org/book/9781593762919?aff=DrunkBooksellers"> <img style="display: block; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;" src= "https://assets.libsyn.com/secure/show/67882/Vanishing_Twins_cvr_72dpi_web_res.jpg" alt="Vanishing Twins Cover" width="396" height="594" /></a></p> <h2 class="p1" style="text-align: center;"><strong>Chapter III: [22:03]</strong></h2> <p style="text-align: center;"><em>In Which We Discuss Sex With Frog Men, Realize America Is Doing Bookstores Wrong, and We Make the Audience Curse In Unison</em></p> <p style="text-align: center;"><span style= "font-size: 14pt;"><strong>Ariana Paliobagis, owner of <a href="https://www.countrybookshelf.com/">Country Bookshelf</a> in Bozeman, MT</strong></span></p> <p style="text-align: center;"><span style= "font-size: 14pt;"><strong><img src= "https://assets.libsyn.com/secure/show/67882/facebook_1540178016708.jpg" alt="Ariana Paliobagis" width="400" height= "400" /></strong></span></p> <p><strong>Ariana's Reading:</strong></p> <ul> <li><a href= "https://www.indiebound.org/book/9780811226691?aff=DrunkBooksellers"> Mrs. Caliban</a> by Rachel Ingalls <ul> <li>"a woman falls in love with a frog man; [he] shows up at her door... and she takes him in, in all the ways"</li> </ul> </li> </ul> <p><img style= "display: block; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;" src= "https://media3.giphy.com/media/3oKIP6w9AnIcjIre5a/giphy.gif?cid=3640f6095bcd4086432e537945026b2d" alt="bow chicka bow wow" width="480" height="386" /></p> <p><strong>Ariana's Excited About:</strong></p> <ul> <li><a href= "https://www.indiebound.org/book/9780062851963?aff=DrunkBooksellers"> Trinity</a> by Louisa Hall (also mentioned, <a href= "https://www.indiebound.org/book/9780062391209?aff=DrunkBooksellers"> Speak</a> by Louisa Hall)</li> </ul> <p><strong>Ariana's Station Eleven Pick:</strong></p> <ul> <li><a href= "https://www.indiebound.org/book/9780374533656?aff=DrunkBooksellers"> What Money Can't Buy: The Moral Limits of Markets</a> by Michael J Sandel</li> </ul> <p>We are impressed by Ariana's practicality and thus let her, and the audience, in on our secret post-apocalypse library. </p> <p><a href= "http://literaryman.com/2012/11/13/makings-of-a-book-fort-in-suspicious-looking-warehouse/"> <img style="display: block; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;" src= "http://theliteraryman.files.wordpress.com/2012/11/bookcastle.jpg" alt="book fort" width="600" height="394" /></a></p> <p><strong>Ariana's Impossible Handsell:</strong></p> <ul> <li><a href= "https://www.indiebound.org/book/9781590171790?aff=DrunkBooksellers"> English, August: An Indian Story</a> by Upamanyu Chatterjee (also mentioned, <a href= "https://www.indiebound.org/book/9780525522119?aff=DrunkBooksellers"> My Year of Rest and Relaxation</a> by Ottessa Moshfegh)</li> </ul> <p><strong>Ariana's Favorite Bookstore:</strong></p> <ul> <li><a href="http://www.librairieactessud.com/">Librairie Actes Sud</a> (it's in France, be jealous)</li> </ul> <p><strong>Find Ariana On the Internets:</strong></p> <ul> <li><a href= "https://www.facebook.com/ariana.paliobagis">Facebook</a></li> <li><a href="https://twitter.com/bookcentric">Twitter</a></li> <li><a href= "https://www.instagram.com/bookcentric/">Instagram</a></li> <li><a href="https://www.countrybookshelf.com/">Country Bookshelf</a> <ul> <li><a href= "https://www.facebook.com/countrybookshelf">Facebook</a></li> <li><a href="https://twitter.com/countrybkshelf">Twitter</a></li> <li><a href= "https://www.instagram.com/countrybookshelf/">Instagram</a></li> </ul> </li> </ul> <p style="text-align: center;"><span style= "font-size: 14pt;"><strong>Our second guest author is <a href= "http://www.meaghano.com/">Meaghan O'Connell</a>, author of <a href="https://www.indiebound.org/book/9780316393843?aff=DrunkBooksellers"> And Now We Have Everything</a> (<a href= "https://www.littlebrown.com/">Little, Brown and Company</a>)</strong></span></p> <p style="text-align: right;"><a href= "http://www.meaghano.com/about/"><strong><img style= "display: block; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;" src= "https://assets.libsyn.com/secure/show/67882/MeaghanOConnell.jpg" alt="Meaghan O'Connell" width="400" height= "267" /><](https://us-central1-podcastguru-217d6.cloudfunctions.net/gcf_get_image?image_url=https://d3t3ozftmdmh3i.cloudfront.net/staging/podcast_uploaded_nologo/41949674/25756e50662c2af3.png&width=300&height=300&api_key=xqFmUFX5BHLBTA)
