Spring Has Sprung
This week, Alice and Kim talking about Jane Austen superfans, snuffbox mussels and the rare “dragon fish,” and books to give some context to the school shooting in Parkland, Florida and subsequent student activism.
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She Caused a Riot by Hannah Jewell
Everything Is Horrible and Wonderful by Stephanie Wittels Wachs
New Releases
Camp Austen by Ted Scheinman (March 6 from FSG Originals)
The Woman’s Hour by Elaine Weiss (March 6 from Viking)
Visionary Women by Andrea Barnet (March 13 from Ecco)
The Last Wild Men of Borneo by Carl Hoffman (March 6 from William Morrow)
Disappointment River by Brian Castner (March 13 from Doubleday)
There Are No Dead Here by Maria McFarland Sánchez-Moreno (February 27 from Nation Books)
Theme of the Week: Spring Has Sprung
Wild and Rare by Adam Regn Arvidson
The Meadowlands by Robert Sullivan
The Sound of a Wild Snail Eating by Elisabeth Tova Bailey
Animal, Vegetable, Miracle by Barbara Kingsolver
Current Events Reads: Guns and Student Activism
Columbine by Dave Cullen
Another Day in the Death of America by Gary Younge
Witness the Revolution by Clara Bingham
What We’re Reading
Political Tribes by Amy Chua
Grant by Ron Chernow
The Dragon Behind the Glass by Emily Voigt
The Extra Stuff
Books mentioned in passing:
The Death and Life of Great American Cities by Jane Jacobs
Coming to My Senses by Alice Waters
The Sixth Extinction by Elizabeth Kolbert
Animals you might be curious about:
Asian arowana aka “dragon fish”
