Podcasts about boulder book store

On today's show Beth plays portions of a chat (full version here; actual talk starts at 1 minute in) she had with Katy Bowman who is a nationally-known biomechanist, author, and movement educator. They spoke at the Boulder Bookstore, where Katy discussed her new book, My Perfect Movement Plan. Bowman combines big-picture lessons on biomechanics, … Continue reading "Move Your Body!"

In this episode of the Watchung Booksellers, owner Maddie Ciliotta-Young talks with W. W. Norton sales rep Ashanti White-Wallace about selling books to indies. Maddie Ciliotta-Young is the owner and operator of Watchung Booksellers in Montclair, NJ. Maddie grew up in Montclair and at the bookstore with her mom, Margot. After college she was a teacher and principal for over a decade at a New York City public high school. As a school administrator, Maddie had a focus on equity for underserved schools and a passion for teaching literacy. She joined the Watchung Booksellers team in 2022 and when she's not in the store she can be found enjoying Montclair's restaurants with her husband or on the soccer field cheering on her kids.Ashanti White-Wallace has been the New York City & tristate area sales rep for W. W. Norton, Inc. since January 2020. Originally from a small mountain town, she graduated with distinction from the University of Colorado at Boulder where she majored in English, studio arts, and art history. She found her passion for slinging books at the Boulder Book Store in 2008. After attending the Columbia Publishing Course in 2014, she managed inventory for WORD in Greenpoint, Brooklyn and Jersey City, NJ, and in 2018 for the Whitney Museum of American Art. Ashanti runs @JCQueerBookClub in Jersey City.Books:A full list of the books and authors mentioned in this episode is available here. Register for Upcoming Events.The Watchung Booksellers Podcast is produced by Kathryn Counsell and Marni Jessup and is recorded at Silver Stream Studio in Montclair, NJ. The show is edited by Kathryn Counsell and Bree Testa. Special thanks to Timmy Kellenyi and Derek Mattheiss. Original music is composed and performed by Violet Mujica. Art & design and social media by Evelyn Moulton. Research and show notes by Caroline Shurtleff. Thanks to all the staff at Watchung Booksellers and The Kids' Room! If you liked our episode please like, follow, and share! Stay in touch!Email: wbpodcast@watchungbooksellers.comSocial: @watchungbooksellersSign up for our newsletter to get the latest on our shows, events, and book recommendations!

On this episode of Currently Reading, Meredith and Kaytee are discussing: Bookish Moments: How books will always be there for us and how ratings easily influence reading Current Reads: all the great, interesting, and/or terrible stuff we've been reading lately Deep Dive: answering the question “How do you handle reading a book you're not going to enjoy or HAVE to read”. from listener Adrienne. The Fountain: we visit our perfect fountain to make wishes about our reading lives Show notes are time-stamped below for your convenience. Read the transcript of the episode (this link only works on the main site) .  .  .  .  .  1:40 - Our Bookish Moments of the Week 6:50 - The Home-Maker by Dorothy Canfield  6:52 - The Count of Monte Cristo by Alexandre Dumas 6:54 - Nevermoor by Jessica Townsend 6:56 - The Lion, The Witch, and the Wardrobe by C.S. Lewis 11:34 - Our Current Reads 11:41 - Democracy in Retrograde by Sami Sage and Emily Amick (Kaytee) 12:21 - Betches Media 12:23 - @emilyinyourphone on Instagram 16:13 - Things Fall Apart by Chinua Achebe 16:16 - Thriftbooks 17:27 - People Like Them by Samira Sedira (Meredith) 18:52 - Foyles 21:48 - Leave the World Behind by Rumaan Alam 22:54 - Butter by Asako Yuzuki (Kaytee) 23:03 - The Boulder Bookstore 26:16 - The Secret, Book, and Scone Society by Ellery Adams 27:32 - The Backyard Bird Chronicles by Amy Tan (Meredith) 34:26 - Colton Gentry's Third Act by Jeff Zentner (Kaytee) 37:54 - The Spellshop by Sarah Beth Durst (Meredith) 40:34 - Legends and Lattes by Travis Baldree 42:18 - The Honey Witch by Sydney J. Shields  44:55 - Deep Dive: Reading Books We “Have” To Read 52:17 - Meet Us At The Fountain 52:23 - I wish to press What Alice Forgot by Liane Moriarty. (Kaytee) 52:29 - What Alice Forgot by Liane Moriarty 55:09 - I wish to remind you to make a plan for your fall reading NOW before time gets away from you - - AND get your mammogram if you need to! (Meredith) Support Us: Become a Bookish Friend | Grab Some Merch Shop Bookshop dot org | Shop Amazon Bookish Friends Receive: The Indie Press List with a curated list of five books hand sold by the indie of the month. September's IPL comes to us from Bright Side Bookshop in Flagstaff, Arizona! Love and Chili Peppers with Kaytee and Rebekah - romance lovers get their due with this special episode focused entirely on the best selling genre fiction in the business.  All Things Murderful with Meredith and Elizabeth - special content for the scary-lovers, brought to you with the behind-the-scenes insights of an independent bookseller From the Editor's Desk with Kaytee and Bunmi Ishola - a quarterly peek behind the curtain at the publishing industry The Bookish Friends Facebook Group - where you can build community with bookish friends from around the globe as well as our hosts Connect With Us: The Show: Instagram | Website | Email | Threads The Hosts and Regulars: Meredith | Kaytee | Mary | Roxanna Production and Editing: Megan Phouthavong Evans Affiliate Disclosure: All affiliate links go to Bookshop unless otherwise noted. Shopping here helps keep the lights on and benefits indie bookstores. Thanks for your support!

On this episode of Currently Reading, Meredith and Kaytee are discussing: Bookish Moments: reading about new hobbies and talking about books to everyone IRL Current Reads: all the great, interesting, and/or terrible stuff we've been reading lately Deep Dive: recapping our summer vacation The Fountain: we visit our perfect fountain to make wishes about our reading lives Show notes are time-stamped below for your convenience. Read the transcript of the episode (this link only works on the main site) .  .  .  .  .  :10 Ad For Ourselves 1:35 - Currently Reading Patreon 4:03 - Our Bookish Moments of the Week 4:37 - The Backyard Bird Chronicles by Amy Tan 4:40 - Birding with Benefits by Sarah T. Dubb 4:44 - Better Living Through Birding by Christian Cooper 7:00 - Our Current Reads 7:05 - Acts of Forgiveness by Maura Cheeks (Kaytee) 10:48 - Nine Lives by Peter Swanson  (Meredith) 12:51 - And Then There Were None by Agatha Christie 14:35 - Morning Glory Milking Farm by C.M. Nacosta (Kaytee) 18:11 - Unhinged by Vera Valentine 18:16 - The Dragon's Bride by Katee Robert 19:44 - Day One by Abigail Dean (Meredith) 21:39 - Girl A by Abigail Dean 23:29 - The Mystery Writer by Sulari Gentill (Kaytee) 23:38 - The Woman in the Library by Sulari Gentill 28:08 - Worst Case Scenario by T.J. Newman (Meredith) 29:23 - Falling by T.J. Newman 29:25 - Drowning by T.J. Newman 39:01 - Deep Dive: What We Did On Our Summer Break 35:03 - The Boulder Bookstore 35:10 - Book Scavenger by Jennifer Chambliss Bertman 38:49 - Half Price Books 49:43 - Meet Us At The Fountain 49:57 - I wish for us all to vote in any upcoming election you may have. (Kaytee) 52:18 - I wish that every July Texas would be cloudy and rainy because it does wonders for my reading life. (Meredith)   Support Us: Become a Bookish Friend | Grab Some Merch Shop Bookshop dot org | Shop Amazon Bookish Friends Receive: The Indie Press List with a curated list of five books hand sold by the indie of the month. August's IPL comes to us from The King's English Bookshop in Utah! Love and Chili Peppers with Kaytee and Rebekah -  romance lovers get their due with this special episode focused entirely on the best selling genre fiction in the business. All Things Murderful with Meredith and Elizabeth - special content for the scary-lovers, brought to you with the special insights of an independent bookseller From the Editor's Desk with Kaytee and Bunmi Ishola - a quarterly peek behind the curtain at the publishing industry The Bookish Friends Facebook Group - where you can build community with bookish friends from around the globe as well as our hosts Connect With Us: The Show: Instagram | Website | Email | Threads The Hosts and Regulars: Meredith | Kaytee | Mary | Roxanna Production and Editing: Megan P. Evans Affiliate Disclosure: All affiliate links go to Bookshop unless otherwise noted. Shopping here helps keep the lights on and benefits indie bookstores. Thanks for your support!

This time on the Rocky Mountain Writer podcast, we get to know the folks behind the Writers Who Read podcast — Gary McBride, Mira Landry, and Whitney Pinion. ++ Gary McBride founded the Writers Who Read novel study group back in August of 2018. After meeting at the Boulder Book Store, the group moved to the Boulder Public Library in 2019 after its adoption as part of the Boulder Writers Alliance. Gary McBride lives just outside of Boulder with his wife Deb and their cats Wallace and Vincenzo. A fourth-generation Denverite, Gary has visited over 70 countries, worked in more than 50 of them, and lived for over a decade in Europe and Southeast Asia. Gary has written a reference guide for Writers Who Read, entitled Literary Forensics, which will be published in 2024. ++ Born and raised in British Columbia, Mira Landry now resides in Colorado with her husband. She has a Creative Writing Certificate from Simon Fraser University, and works both as an associate literary agent at Corvisiero Literary Agency and as a wedding and portrait photographer. She serves on the board of directors for Rocky Mountain Fiction Writers, and when not writing, she can be found frolicking on the high peaks of the Rockies or knitting sweaters that likely won't fit anyone properly. ++ Whitney Pinion fell in love with books when her parents gave her a set of mystery-adventure stories in which she and her cousins and friends were the main characters. She wrote poetry as a kid—and in college—where she studied literature and earned a BA in English. After working her way up from editorial assistant to magazine editor at a publishing company in Washington, DC, she and her husband moved to the Bay Area, where she further honed her writing and editing skills at a San Francisco PR firm. The drive to write more meaningful stories led her back to school, where she earned a Master's in English and Creative Writing.  Whitney has written a collection of short stories and is working on a novel. When she isn't reading or writing, she's hiking with her family in the stunning Colorado mountains, trying out new recipes (like cocktails for the next Writers Who Read podcast), and traveling. She lives with her husband and son in Boulder. More about the Writers Who Read podcast: https://garyalanmcbride.com/writers-who-read/   Intro Music by Moby Gratis: https://mobygratis.com/ Outro Music by Dan-o-Songs: https://danosongs.com/  

Waylon Lewis reads his book, "Things I Would Like to Do with You," and discusses the Buddhist Notion of Love at the Boulder Book Store in February of 2018. Like the book, the talk is timeless. In his live introduction, Waylon asks himself, “What kind of marriage vow could I possibly take to what kind of person and mean it?” Listen to Waylon read and discuss love and loneliness in modern-day society from a Buddhist point of view. Subscribe to get our full conversations weekly.

We have two horror genre shows left and this week we bring you Stephen Graham Jones. Although not all of his books fall squarely in horror category, My Heart is a Chainsaw and Don't Fear the Reaper are beautiful love letters to horror fans who will take much glee in all the genre conventions within which Stephen plays. The final Indian Lake Trilogy novel comes out this fall, The Angel Of Indian Lake. Kate can't wait. Stephen brings his Blackfoot Native American culture and aspects of social justice to his writings and his writing is all the better for it. If you shy away from horror, try Mapping The Interior or The Only Good Indians. For an independent bookseller this week, we reach out to one of Stephen's local favorites, the Boulder Bookstore in Colorado. Books mentioned in this week's episode: The Only Good Indians by Stephen Graham Jones My Heart is a Chainsaw by Stephen Graham Jones Don't Fear the Reaper by Stephen Graham Jones Mongrels by Stephen Graham Jones Night of the Mannequins by Stephen Graham Jones Demon Theory by Stephen Graham Jones Ararat by Christopher Golden Mexican Gothic by Silvia Moreno-Garcia Ballad of Black Tom by Victor LaValle Come Closer by Sara Gran Collected Poems, 1947-1980 by Allen Ginsberg Merlin Book 1: The Lost Years by T. A. Barron The Last Animal by Ramona Ausubel Biography of X by Catherine Lacey Stars Go Blue by Laura Pritchett Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

On today’s Morning Magazine, we'll hear from the head buyer at the Boulder Book Store about this weekend's 50th anniversary celebration of the independent book store on the Pearl St. Mall. Then, Radio Nibbles host John Lehndorff will be in the studio with a guest to chat about how we [...]

In this podcast-only episode of the Radio Bookclub, author Peter Heller answers questions from the audience at the Boulder Bookstore on August 17. Listen to the broadcast interview with Peter Heller where he talks about his latest novel, The Last Ranger. That interview was broadcast on KGNU on Thursday, August [...] The post Afterhours at the Radio Bookclub: Peter Heller appeared first on KGNU Community Radio.

In this podcast-only episode of the Radio Bookclub, author Finn Murphy answers questions from the audience at the Boulder Bookstore on June 22. Listen to the broadcast interview with Finn Murphy where he talks about his latest book, Rocky Mountain High. That interview was broadcast on KGNU on Thursday, July [...] The post Afterhours at the Radio Bookclub: Finn Murphy appeared first on KGNU Community Radio.

In this podcast-only episode of the Radio Bookclub, author Stephen Graham answers questions from the audience at the live taping at the Boulder Bookstore. Listen to the broadcast interview with Stephen Graham Jones where he talks about his latest book, […]

Author Erika Wurth speaks more about Indigenous horror writers, growing up in Idaho Springs and more. This special event was recorded in front of a live audience at the Boulder Bookstore on November 16. In this podcast-only episode of the […]

We are joined by three booksellers from the Boulder Bookstore who share their favorite books of 2022 and give recommendations for readers of all ages. Brad Costa is a buyer at the Boulder Bookstore and his four recommendations are: Seven […]

Author Ted Conover speaks more about living in the San Luis Valley in Colorado. Ted joined the Radio Bookclub for a conversation in front of a live audience at the Boulder Bookstore on November 2. In this podcast-only episode of […]

Colorado author Erika Wurth has written novels, short stories, poetry and non-fiction. Her latest book, White Horse, is a piece of literary horror that explores themes of loss and identity through the lens of a protagonist who, like Wurth, is an urban Indian. Today on the news, a conversation with Wurth about writing contemporary Native American fiction and being part of a new wave of Indigenous literature. Plus, the Park City Lift Maintenance Professional Union has formed, and it's the first of its kind in the country. And later, the effort to unionize Starbucks workers arrived in Boulder, Colorado. // Show Notes: // Photo: Erika Wurth spoke about her new novel, White Horse, at the Boulder Bookstore in mid-November. Maeve Conran/ Rocky Mountain Community Radio // Aspen Public Radio: Colorado author Erika Wurth is part of a new wave of Indigenous literature https://www.aspenpublicradio.org/2022-11-18/denver-author-erika-wurth-is-part-of-a-new-wave-of-indigenous-literature // KPCW: Park City Mountain ski lift mechanics unionize - a first in U.S. https://www.kpcw.org/park-city/2022-11-22/park-city-mountain-ski-lift-mechanics-vote-to-form-union?utm_source=The+Local+from+KPCW&utm_campaign=9990f736f3-THELOCAL_EMAIL&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_51e5d20ffa-9990f736f3-619617003 // Starbucks Workers United https://sbworkersunited.org

Dr. Annie Fenn is a physician and chef focused on Alzheimer's prevention. In 2015, she founded the Brain Health Kitchen, an evidence-based online resource about how and what to eat to resist cognitive decline. Soon after, she launched the Brain Health Kitchen Cooking School, the only school of its kind focused specifically on fending off Alzheimer's and other dementias. Her students learn which foods are neuroprotective, which ones accelerate cognitive decline, and how to prepare foods using brain-friendly cooking techniques. Fenn's new book, The Brain Health Kitchen: Preventing Alzheimer's Through Food is available now for pre-order and on shelves in January. Join Travis and Dr. Fenn for an important and highly educational conversation about brain-healthy eating, gravel biking, Jackson, WY, and more.Fenn will present with Travis and Mark Macy in Colorado next April about her book plus their book, A Mile at a Time:4/3 Tattered Cover on Colfax4/4 Boulder Bookstore on Pearl Street4/5 Berkley Park Running CompanyIn This Episode: Dr. Annie Fenn Instagram | Websitewww.insidetracker.com/travismacy  OFFER: 20% OFF the entire InsideTracker store DISCOUNT CODE: TRAVISMACYTravis Macy Instagram | WebsiteMark Macy on InstagramInjinji Discount SiteThe Feed Instagram | Website- - - - - - - - - - -If you like this podcast, please consider our book, A Mile at A Time: A Father and Son's Inspiring Alzheimer's Journey of Love, Adventure, and Hope*30% off with discount code MACESubscribe: Apple Podcast | SpotifyCheck us out: Instagram | Twitter | Website | YouTubewww.AMileAtATimeBook.comThe show is Produced and Edited by Palm Tree Pod

Author Alexandra Kleeman joined the Radio Bookclub for a conversation in front of a live audience at the Boulder Bookstore on August 3. In this podcast-only episode of the Radio Bookclub, Alexandra answers questions from the audience and talks about […]

Best-selling Denver author Kali Fajardo-Anstine joined the Radio Bookclub for a conversation in front of a live audience at the Boulder Bookstore on July 11. In this podcast-only episode of the Radio Bookclub, Kali answers audience questions about her writing […]

Regina Smith, Masters in Contemplative Psychotherapy & Buddhist Psychology from Naropa, has a contemplated what a thriving mission, culture, and inclusivity-driven community could look like. Regina and her Naropa team are mirroring this vision in order to make it less of a dream and more reality. Tune into this episode to catch a glimpse of her insights and find out how you can help. Episode Links: Nikki Giovanni (https://nikki-giovanni.com/) Poetry: Cotton Candy On A Rainy Day (https://nikki-giovanni.com/works/poetry/cotton-candy-on-a-rainy-day/) Ubuntu I Am Because We Are (https://www.ttbook.org/interview/i-am-because-we-are-african-philosophy-ubuntu#:~:text=In%20practice%2C%20ubuntu%20means%20believing,no%20tensions%2C%22%20said%20Ogude.) Novel: Feminist Accountability Buy it at the Boulder Bookstore (https://www.boulderbookstore.net/book/9780814777152) Big Quotes: "One of the things I know is that I'm not the one who knows, I've decided to demote myself from being the one who knows. So, I can just tell you about my experience, I can't tell you whether it's the ultimate truth." "How do we become okay with not being special or important or central, but rather becoming what's needed for the collective to thrive?" Get To Know Your Host: Apple: David DeVine: An Intimate Interview and Mindful U Year In Review (https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/david-devine-an-intimate-interview-and-mindful-u-year/id1293885372?i=1000423270893) Spotify: David DeVine: An Intimate Interview and Mindful U Year In Review (https://open.spotify.com/episode/1HYmXIB6XJbrPwpAfiXMK5?si=d31325fbc7e149a4) Your Next Noteworthy Listen: 02. Judith Zimmer-Brown: The Science and Practice of Compassion (https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/mindful-u-at-naropa-university/id1293885372?i=1000393315902) Special Guest: Regina-Smith.

In this episode, I chat with Arsen Kashkashian, head buyer and general manager at the Boulder Book Store in Boulder, Colorado. I asked him about the plethora of local authors, such as Jon Krakauer and Stephen Graham Jones, hiking, books in translation, and Allen Ginsberg's time in the Boulder community.Arsen received the 2006 Gordon Saull Award for outstanding bookseller from the Mountains and Plains Independent Booksellers Association. Maeve Conran and Arsen Kashkashian host the monthly KGNU-Boulder Book Store Radio Book Club.Boulder Book StoreReprieve, James Han Mattson Marcel ProustBreakfast at Tiffany's, Truman CapoteTo Break a Covenant, Alison AmesStephen Graham JonesKaye GibbonsPercival Everett Cloud Cuckoo Land: A Novel, Anthony Doerr Burntcoat: A Novel, Sarah Hall The Temps, Andrew DeYoungStephen King Joe Hill Stargazing, Jen Wang John Krakauer The Trojan War Museum: and Other Stories, Ayse Papatya Bucak The Odyssey, Homer, translated by Emily Wilson Gloriana: Or, The Unfulfill'd Queen, Michael MoorcockSupport the show (https://paypal.me/TheBookshopPodcast?locale.x=en_US)

The January 2022 selection for the Radio Bookclub is To Break A Covenant, a YA novel from former Boulder Bookstore employee Alison Ames. The coming of age story tells the tale of Clem and her best friend, Nina, who live […]

Author Alison Ames joined us at the Boulder Bookstore to discuss her latest book To Break a Covenant. Listen to more of the conversation where Alison recounts stories from the time she worked in the used book office at the […]

On today’s Morning Magazine, Louisville-based author Leah Angstman joins us in the studio this morning ahead of her debut book presentation at the Boulder Bookstore. Members of Denver's tattoo and body modification community gathered Saturday outside of the Sol Tribe […]

Boulder-based author Jenny Shank joined us at the Boulder Bookstore to discuss her collection of short stories Mixed Company. The stories are inspired by Shank’s experiences growing up in Denver, and they reveal poignant and often humorous moments of grace […]

Author Jenny Shank joined us at the Boulder Bookstore to discuss her latest collection of short stories, Mixed Company. In this podcast-only edition of the show, Jenny discusses the challenges of breaking into comedy writing, and how she almost interned […]

Fort Collins-based author EJ Levy joined us at the Boulder Bookstore to discuss her latest novel The Cape Doctor. The book was inspired by the real life of Dr. James Miranda Barry and tells the fictionalized Dr. Jonathan Mirandus Perry's […]

Author EJ Levy joined us at the Boulder Bookstore to discuss her latest novel The Cape Doctor, a fictionalized account of the real-life Dr. James Miranda Barry, born Margaret Anne Bulkley in Cork, Ireland in 1789. EJ Levy’s book tells […]

On today’s Morning Magazine, we talk with an author who will present her new book at the Boulder Bookstore tonight about the powers of empathy. Then we’ll hear from members if the Latinx Working Group of the Colorado News Collaborative […]

Boulder-based author Hermione Hoby joined us at the Boulder Bookstore for a socially distanced live event, to discuss her latest novel Virtue, which tells the story of Luca. Originally from Broomfield, Colorado, Luca goes to New York City for an […]

Best-selling horror author Stephen Graham Jones joined us at the Boulder Bookstore for a live event on September 2, 2021. In this Afterhours at the Radio Bookclub podcast, he answers audience questions and talks more about the art of writing […]

Stephen Graham Jones joined us at the Boulder Bookstore in September for a socially distanced, mask-wearing live event, to discuss his new novel My Heart is a Chainsaw, a slasher novel that tells the story of Jade, “an angry, half-Indian […]

Local author Zoe Hana Mikuta joins us in-studio ahead of her event tonight at the Boulder Bookstore. We'll hear some tips from health experts on how to reduce air pollution inside homes. Then, we'll play our weekly comment line. Listen: […]

Listen to more of our conversation with best-selling author Peter Heller who joined us to discuss his latest book The Guide at an event at the Boulder Bookstore. This is Heller’s fourth visit to the Radio Bookclub. Listen to the […]

Trying to get settled in Boulder, Colorado after a tumultuous trip to Venezuela, Una learns what a new life means with her mother and Trungpa Rinpoche.When Una tags along with her mother to a personal audience with the great Tibetan meditation master himself, he has some special words for her that will forever change the course of her life.

 aah. . . The Pleasure Book, by JIA GOTTLIEB MD, hits upon the vital importance of knowing our pleasure from the inside out. Know it and you can enjoy and share it!! It’s renewable after all…. There is a public “zoom” with Jia via  the Boulder Book Store on March 18th at 5 p m […]

The February selection for the Radio Bookclub is Perestroika In Paris, by Pulitzer Prize-winning author Jane Smiley. The novel’s protagonist is a runaway racehorse who befriends a German shorthaired pointer. Together they live on the streets of Paris until they befriend a human boy, Etienne, and discover a new, otherworldly part of the city. [embed]https://objects-us-east-1.dream.io/kgnu-news/2021/02/2-25-21_BookclubJaneSmiley.mp3[/embed] This edition of the Radio Bookclub with Jane Smiley was broadcast on KGNU at 9am on Thursday, February 25th. Listen to more of our conversation with author Jane Smiley in our Afterhours podcast-only edition of the Radio Bookclub, where she talks about her life-long love of horses, which have appeared in so many of her books. Subscribe to our Radio Book Club Series on iTunes to get new editions and web-only content. Also on Spotify and Stitcher. The Radio Bookclub is a collaboration between KGNU and the Boulder Bookstore. Every month, Arsen Kashkashian, head buyer at the Boulder Bookstore, selects a book to inspire listeners to read along together. The author will then join us in-studio for a discussion that airs the fourth Thursday of every month at 9am.

Listen to more of our conversation with author Jane Smiley where she talks about her love of horses, which feature in so many of her books, and what it means to be such a prolific writer. [embed]https://objects-us-east-1.dream.io/kgnu-news/2021/02/2-25-21_AfterHoursBookclubSmiley.mp3[/embed] Listen to the broadcast interview with author Jane Smiley, broadcast on KGNU at 9am on Thursday, February 25th. Subscribe to our Radio Book Club Series on iTunes to get new editions and web-only content. Also on Spotify and Stitcher. The Radio Bookclub is a collaboration between KGNU and the Boulder Bookstore. Every month, Arsen Kashkashian, head buyer at the Boulder Bookstore, selects a book to inspire listeners to read along together. The author will then join us in-studio for a discussion that airs the fourth Thursday of every month at 9am.

Chef Maria Cooper shares an exceptional journey that begins in Pittsburgh as a social worker and eventually leads to Boulder, Colorado as a head chef, Soul Sweat dance instructor and acclaimed author of the cookbook, Heartful Kitchen: A Cookbook for Every Body. Chef Maria shares tidbits about where she buys her meat and produce and how her own health needs inspired her to create a system to simplify healthy eating for those with busy lifestyles and restricted diets. Maria also shares tips from her book for clean eating and shopping for nutrient dense recipes on a budget, grocery store shopping strategies and a favorite recipe that will feed your family all week long. Her gorgeous book is sold in at: Boulder Bookstore, Wonder Juice Press, Alfalfa's, Peppercorn, Golden Hoof Farm, and Highland City Club. --- Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/the-boulderista/support

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Stephen Graham Jones joined us at the Boulder Bookstore in July for a socially distanced, mask-wearing live event, to discuss his new novel The Only Good […]

Best-selling horror author Stephen Graham Jones joined us at the Boulder Bookstore for a live event on July 16. In this Afterhours at the Radio Bookclub […]

Thomas is back! We discuss reading during a pandemic and more importantly, the books we've managed to order online during the pandemic. Jenny gets Thomas to talk about audiobooks, and we follow every tangent from E.M. Forster to epistolary novels.Download or listen via this link: Reading Envy 192: Sly Milieu Subscribe to the podcast via this link: FeedburnerOr subscribe via Apple Podcasts by clicking: SubscribeOr listen through TuneIn Or listen on Google Play Or listen via StitcherOr listen through Spotify New! Listen through Google Podcasts Books discussed: Arctic Summer by Damon GalgutThe Subtweet by Vivek ShrayaNo Fond Return of Love by Barbara PymSharks in the Time of Saviors by Kawai Strong WashburnOther mentions:In a Strange Room by Damon Galgut"Every Song" by Vivek Shraya (both versions in Spotify)Camp ToB"Italy Before the Plague" (Thomas's blog entry)The Mirror and the Light by Hillary MantelTimothy WestSimon VanceSinclair LewisGiovanni's Room by James BaldwinThe Golden Notebook by Doris LessingGraham Greene84, Charing Cross Road by Helene HanffPatrick ModianoWG SebwaldHelen MacInnesCharles McCarthyMalaprop's BookstoreOld Town BooksBlue Hill BooksBoulder Book StoreThree Lives & CompanyBear Pond BooksNonsuch BookMahogany BooksFurrowed Middlebrow from Dean Street BooksStuck in a BookPowells Lion Cross Point by Masatsugu OnoA Room with a View by E.M. ForsterA Room with a View (film)Where Angels Fear to Tread by E.M. Forster The Longest Journey by E.M. ForsterHowards End by E.M. ForsterA Passage to India by E.M. ForsterMaurice by E.M. ForsterDear Committee Members by Julie SchumacherHotels of North America by Rick MoodyInterview between Tommy Orange and Kawai Strong Washburn Stories of Hawaii by Jack LondonExcellent Women by Barbara PymRelated episodes:Episode 085 - An Acquired Taste with Thomas Otto Episode 144 - For the Fans with Thomas of HogglestockEpisode 155 - Books About Music Recommendations Episode with ThomasEpisode 191 - Stealthy yet Sparkly with Gail CarrigerStalk us online:Jenny at GoodreadsJenny on TwitterJenny is @readingenvy on Instagram and LitsyThomas on TwitterThomas at his blog, hogglestock

Arsen Kashkashian, Liesl Freudenstein, and Stephanie Schindhelm of the Boulder Bookstore join Maeve Conran to share their favorite books of 2019 in our annual end of year Best Books of the year show.

Listen to more of the conversation with Joe Hill with special guest host Julia Atwood of the Boulder Book Store. Afterhours at the Radio Bookclub is […]

Athlete's Guide to Recovery (starts at 5:39): Colorado is riddled with athletes, many of them incessantly chasing the latest recovery products and services that will enhance their performance -- from Gatorade and other ubiquitous sports-recovery drinks, to supplements, to compression boots, to cryochambers, to good old-fashioned massages. How solid is the solid the science behind the multi-million marketing campaigns? Christie Ashwanden, a former pro cyclist, runner and skier, is also the lead science writer at FiveThirtyEight, and her new book explores the scientific research, the snake oil, and common sense practices, in the world of exercise recovery. Good to Go: What the Athlete in All of Us Can Learn from the Strange Science of Recovery (Norton), was just published today. Christie will also speak about her book tonight at the Boulder Book Store, and tomorrow in Fort Collins at Old Firehouse Books. Hosts: Susan Moran, Gretchen Wettstein Producer: Susan Moran Engineer: Maeve Conran Executive Producer: Beth Bennett Listen to the show here:

Arsen Kashkashian, head buyer, Liesl Freudenstein, head of children’s books at the Boulder Bookstore and Nicole Sullivan of the Book Bar in Denver join Maeve Conran of […]

Every summer, we ask our interns to pick their favorite episode. UC Irvine graduate John Gomez chose Claire Legrand's novel "Foxheart." Witches, monsters, and a brave little thief. Those are the ingredients in the book. Book Club for Kids fan Kailas and her two fellow readers Iona and Gabi discuss the novel at Boulder Bookstore with host Kitty Felde. Our celebrity reader is actor Wesley Mann. Writer Claire Legrand explains how "Foxheart" began as a short story challenge.

Today's pledge-drive show features parts of our recent interview with Steven Pinker. Enlightenment Now: If you think the world, including the U.S., is falling apart, that the ideal of progress is as quaint as riding to work on a horse and carriage, you’re hardly alone. But you’re wrong, argues  Harvard University cognitive scientist Steven Pinker in his new book. It's called Enlightenment Now: A Case for Reason, Science, Humanism, and Progress. As he shows in many copious charts and graphs from studies and national statistics, most people are living longer, healthier, safer, freer, and happier lives. And while our problems are formidable, the solutions, Pinker claims, lie in the Enlightenment ideal of using reason and science. Provocative? Yes. Pollyannaish? No, says Pinker. Today's show features two sections of a recent interview that How On Earth host Susan Moran and KGNU host Joel Edelstein conducted with Pinker. We will play the full interview on our March 20th science show. Meanwhile, Pinker will discuss and sign his book at two events on the Front Range on Saturday, March 17. He will be at Tattered Cover Book Store in Denver (2526 Colfax Ave.) at 4:00 p.m. Then he'll speak at 7:00 p.m. at Unity of Boulder Church (2855 Folsom St.) Check with Boulder Book Store about tickets. Hosts: Joel Edelstein, Susan Moran Producer: Susan Moran Engineer: Joel Edelstein Executive Producer: Susan Moran Listen to the show here:

We offer two feature interviews on today's show. Chronic Fatigue Syndrome (start time: 11:49)  Imagine spending years waking up so sore and fatigued many mornings that you can barely move. And traversing the country to find doctors who could offer a clear diagnosis, only to find out they don’t really know. And feeling your friendships and professional relationships start to fray, as people question whether you’re making up your illness. For those who have suffered from chronic fatigue syndrome (CFS, or ME), or a similar disease, Julie Rehmeyer's story may sound painfully familiar.  The science and math writer talks with host Susan Moran about her new book about the illness, called Through the Shadowlands: A Science Writer’s Odyssey Into an Illness Science Doesn’t Understand. Rehmeyer will speak about her book on Thursday at 7:30 p.m. at the Boulder Book Store. Renewable Energy Debate (start time: 3:20): A bitter scientific debate, as reported in the Washington Post, has surfaced among two scientific groups that are both pushing to decarbonize U.S. electricity generation. On one side  are experts such as Boulder mathematician Christopher Clack, who contends in a new analysis that the U.S. can cut its carbon emissions by nearly 80%, using existing technologies, by  2030. On the other side of this feud is Mark Jacobson, an atmospheric scientist and engineer at Stanford University. He claims the nation can move to 100% renewable energy by 2055. This week, in a peer-reviewed analysis published in the Proceedings of the National Academies of Sciences, Clack and colleagues call Jacobson’s vision of 100% renewables unrealistic, and says his calculations and modeling are full of errors. Jacobson and his group have countered Clack et al’s analysis is full of errors. Dr. Clack, founder of Vibrant Clean Energy and with NOAA and the University of Colorado Boulder when he conducted this research, talks with host Shelley Schlender about the science, the debate, and what it means for the pursuit of clean energy. Hosts: Susan Moran, Shelley Schlender Producer: Susan Moran Engineers: Maeve Conran, Shelley Schlender Executive Producer: Susan Moran Listen here to the show:    

Your Brain on Nature (start time: 5:49): You may think it’s a no-brainer: that nature is good for your mental and physical health. After all, a walk in the woods or even an urban park brightens your outlook on life, at least for a little while. Turns out, the notion that being outside in nature boosts our mood, and even our creativity, has historical roots at least as deep as Aristotle.  A new book by  journalist Florence Williams explores the history of our biophilia, and particularly emerging neuroscience that reveals just how our bodies and minds are affected by getting out in the natural world. The book is called The Nature Fix: Why Nature Makes Us Happier, Healthier, and More Creative (Norton, 2017). The book stemmed from an article Williams wrote in National Geographic. A former Boulder resident, Williams will return to Boulder to give a talk about her book on Tuesday, February 28th, at the Boulder Book Store, at 7:30 p.m. She'll also speak in Denver, on Wednesday, March 1st, at Tattered Cover Book Store, at 7:00 p.m. Hosts: Maeve Conran, Susan Moran Producer: Susan Moran Engineer: Maeve Conran Executive Producer: Joel Parker Additional contributions: Beth Bennett, Joel Parker, Shelley Schlender Listen to the show:

Katy and Dani recorded a live-audience podcast at the historic Boulder Bookstore and share thoughts on their whirlwind day of food, fun, family and friends. We wish you could’ve been there with us, but this is the next best thing.

Yeah, so, if y’all hadn’t noticed, we’ve lagged a bit in getting new episodes posted this year. We blame life. To make up for being assholes, here’s ANOTHER bonus episode to keep you occupied until our next real episode posts. Which will be soon. Like, it’s been recorded, we’re just editing, and it should be ready in, like, a week. Get psyched. You can also stream the episode on iTunes and Stitcher. Find us on Tumblr at drunkbooksellers.tumblr.com, and follow us on Twitter at @drunkbookseller for updates, book recs, and general bookish shenanigans. Check out our show notes, below. Epigraph Bitches in Bookshops Our theme music, Bitches in Bookshops, comes to us with permission from Annabelle Quezada. It’s the best.   Introduction   [0:30] In Which Emma’s Excited About an Event That You Can’t Attend ‘Cause It Already Happened and We Discuss the Awesomeness of Tactile Covers Emma’s drinking Schlafly Oatmeal Stout Kim’s drinking Sierra Nevada’s Hop Hunter IPA Emma’s reading: See You in the Morning by Mairead Case   Also mentioned: Slab by Selah Saterstrom, The Creative Tarot: A Modern Guide to an Inspired Life by Jessa Crispin (of Bookslut fame) Kim’s reading: Adulthood is a Myth by Sarah Andersen   Eruption: The Untold Story of Mount St. Helens by Steve Olson Listening to: Redefining Realness: My Path to Womanhood, Identity, Love & So Much More by Janet Mock Chapter I   [7:07] In Which Your Noble Hosts Look Back at Their Favorite Books of 2015 Emma’s Picks: Uprooted by Naomi Novik The Bread We Eat in Dreams by Catherynne M. Valente Vivian Apple at the End of the World by Katie Coyle Nimona by Noelle Stevenson (also mentioned: Lumberjanes) Witches of America by Alex Mar The Thrilling Adventures of Lovelace and Babbage: The (Mostly) True Story of the First Computer by Sydney Padua Never Judge a Lady By Her Cover by Sarah MacLean Kim’s Picks: Supermutant Magic Academy by Jillian Tamaki (also mentioned: Skim & This One Summer) Bitch Planet by Kelly Sue DeConnick The Small Backs of Children by Lidia Yuknavitch Women by Chloe Caldwell Between the World and Me by Ta-Nehisi Coates The Argonauts by Maggie Nelson Chapter II   [27:00] In Which Your Hosts Look Forward to 2016 Naked Money: A Revealing Look at What It Is and Why It Matters by Charles Wheelan (pubs 4 April 2016) The Abundance: Narrative Essays Old and New by Annie Dillard What Is Not Yours Is Not Yours by Helen Oyeyemi (also mentioned: White is For Witching and Boy, Snow, Bird) Tuesday Nights in 1980 by Molly Prentiss (pubs 5 April 2016) The Crimson Skew by SE Grove (pubs 12 July 2016) The Girl Who Raced Fairyland All the Way Home by Catherynne M. Valente (also mentioned: Radiance, Six Gun Snow White) Solutions and Other Problems by Allie Brosh (pubs 25 October 2016) (also mentioned: Hyperbole and a Half, as well as Let’s Pretend this Never Happened and Furiously Happy by Jenny Lawson) The Lesbian Sex Haiku Book (with Cats!) by Anna Pulley, illustrated by Kelsey Beyer (pubs 19 April 2016)   Chapter III   [40:53] In Which Booksellers from Across The Land Recommend the Books They’re Looking Forward to in 2016 Ariana from Country Bookshelf in Bozeman, MT recommends The Reputations by Juan Gabriel Vasquez (pubs 20 September 2016) Genevieve from the Boulder Book Store in Boulder, CO recommends Jane Steele by Lyndsay Faye (pubs 22 March 2016) Sam from Village Books in Bellingham, WA recommends Into the Sun by Deni Ellis Bechard (pubs 6 September 2016) Carson from Country Bookshelf in Bozeman, MT recommends My Best Friend’s Exorcism by Grady Hendrix (pubs 17 May 2016) Stacy from Book Bar in Denver, CO recommends After the Crash by Michel Bussi (published 5 January 2016) Epilogue   [43:33] In Which There Are Exciting Things On the Horizon Have a favorite bookseller you’d like us to chat with on the show? Shoot us an email at drunkbooksellers@gmail.com with their name, store, and contact info so that we can reach out to them! Follow us on Twitter @drunkbookseller. Emma tweets @thebibliot and writes nerdy bookish things for Book Riot. Kim occasionally tweets at @finaleofseem. Share the love by rating/reviewing us on iTunes. And don’t forget to subscribe from your podcatcher of choice. We’ll be back soon (in a week or so?) with a for-realsies episode. Until then, read ALL the books.    

Today's show offers two features: High School STEM Stars (start time: 5:00): Developing polymers to reduce waste from biodiesel production. Using 3D printing to design ocean textures, such as fish gills and waves, that blind students can use in textbooks to better understand nature. These are the kind of vexing challenges of seasoned scientists. Well, a select group of high school students here on the Front Range are also diving into this research, through the University of Colorado's Photo-Origami Research Project. It's part of the Research Experience and Mentoring (REM) program. Our guests--Lindsey Welch, a sophomore at Centaurus High; and Tyco Mera Evans, a senior at Northglenn High-- will give poster presentations at the Emerging Researchers National Conference in STEM, in Washington, D.C.  this week. Joining them in the studio is Kathryn Penzkover, who directs high school programs through CU Science Discovery. Sex & Evolution Beneath the Waves (start time: 14:45) Ever wonder about the sex lives of gender-bending fish, desperately virgin elephant seals, and other creatures of the sea? Marine ecologist Marah Hardt has made a career out of it. She speaks with host Susan Moran about her newly published book, Sex in the Sea: Our Intimate Connections with Sex-changing Fish, Romantic Lobsters, Kinky Squid, and Other Salty Erotica of the Deep. Dr. Hardt, who works with the nonprofit Future of Fish, illuminates how sex in the sea is at the heart of healthy and sustainable oceans. The oceans, along with their inhabitants, are under many threats, including overfishing and climate change. She will speak tonight about her book at the Boulder Book Store. For more information on ocean conservation issues, and to get involved here in land-locked Colorado, check out the nonprofit Colorado Ocean Coalition. And listen to previous related interviews, in our series "The Ocean Is Us." Hosts: Susan Moran, Joel Parker Producer: Susan Moran Engineer: Joel Parker Additional contributors: Beth Bennett Executive Producer: Joel Parker Listen to the audio here:

Bestselling author and prolific lit interviewer Brad Listi was named One of LA s most fascinating people of 2015 by the LA Weekly. He stopped by to chat with me about podcasting and the secrets of successful writers. Rainmaker.FM is Brought to You By Discover why more than 80,000 companies in 135 countries choose WP Engine for managed WordPress hosting. Start getting more from your site today! On his “in depth and inappropriate” podcast, Otherppl with Brad Listi, he has interviewed over 350 leading contemporary authors — including George Saunders, Cheryl Strayed, Tao Lin, Jonathan Lethem, Austin Kleon, and Susan Orlean — and his takeaways for writers are often priceless and pointed. In addition to his street-cred as a bestselling novelist, Brad is a screenwriter, and the founder and publisher of The Nervous Breakdown, an online culture magazine and literary community. In this file Brad Listi and I discuss: Why Interviews with Beginners Can Be More Interesting Than Interviews with Superstars The Magic of Deadlines, Caffeine, and Word Counts Why First Drafts are Like Ironing a Shirt The Importance of Meditation for ‘Unplugging’ How Great Writers Capture a Moment That Others Can’t 3 Key Takeaways from over 350 Interviews with Writers Listen to The Writer Files: Writing, Productivity, Creativity, and Neuroscience below ... Download MP3 Subscribe by RSS Subscribe in iTunes The Show Notes The Otherppl Podcast hosted by Brad Listi The Otherppl App Books by Brad Listi The Nervous Breakdown — an online culture magazine and literary community Otherppl on Twitter Brad Listi on Twitter Kelton Reid on Twitter The Transcript How Novelist and Prolific Podcaster Brad Listi Writes Voiceover: This is Rainmaker.FM, the digital marketing podcast network. It’s built on the Rainmaker Platform, which empowers you to build your own digital marketing and sales platform. Start your free 14-day trial at RainmakerPlatform.com. Kelton Reid: These are The Writer Files, a tour of the habits, habitats, and brains of working writers, from online content creators to fictionists, journalists, entrepreneurs, and beyond. I’m your host, Kelton Reid: writer, podcaster, and mediaphile. Each week, we’ll find out how great writers keep the ink flowing, the cursor moving, and avoid writer’s block. Bestselling author and prolific lit interviewer Brad Listi has been named as one of LA’s most fascinating people of 2015 by the LA Weekly. He stopped by to chat with me about podcasting and the secrets of successful writers. On his in-depth and inappropriate podcast, Otherppl with Brad Listi, he’s interviewed over 350 leading contemporary authors, including George Saunders, Cheryl Strayed, Tao Lin, Jonathan Lethem, Austin Kleon, and Susan Orlean, and his takeaways for writers are often priceless and pointed. In addition to his street-cred as a bestselling novelist, Brad is a screenwriter and the founder and publisher of The Nervous Breakdown, an online culture magazine and literary community. In this file, Brad Listi and I discuss why interviews with beginners can be more interesting than interviews with superstars, the magic of deadlines, caffeine and word counts, why first drafts are like ironing a shirt, the importance of meditation for unplugging, and three key takeaways from over 350 interviews with writers. If you enjoy The Writer Files podcast, please do me a favor. Leave a rating or a review in iTunes to help other writers find us. Thanks for tuning in. Mr. Listi, thank you so much for coming onto The Writer Files. Brad Listi: It’s my pleasure, man. Thanks for having me. Kelton Reid: I am a huge fan of not only your writing, but also your podcast, which just blows me away with the breadth and depth and number of writers that you’ve interviewed over there is fantastic. Brad Listi: Just leveraging my mental illness into productivity. Kelton Reid: For listeners who aren’t familiar with your podcast and what you do, what is your area of expertise as both a writer and a podcaster? Brad Listi: None. But I’m curious. I’m curious, professionally curious, and then also professionally confused. Those two things make for, hopefully, a decent podcaster, or somebody who talks to people regularly and interviews them, or not really interviews, but has conversations. I don’t know how unusual it is to be able to do that, but I can do it. I can sit there and talk to people and be totally fascinated, genuinely fascinated. It started as kind of a lark, which is how most of the things in my life tend to go, in my professional life, and it just snowballed. I’ve had so much fun doing it that I keep doing it. Then here we are four years later. Kelton Reid: The podcast is Otherppl on iTunes and Stitcher. I definitely would encourage writers to seek it out if they don’t know it already. You’re an intrepid interviewer, but you just get into the mind of the writer. You let them rip. You talk about process. You’ve interviewed some amazing contemporary authors, including George Saunders, Tao Lin, Austin Kleon, who I love, who was just on this show as well — just an amazing, amazing array of different types of writers, which I think is very cool. Why Interviews with Beginners Can Be More Interesting Than Interviews with Superstars Brad Listi: Yeah. That’s always been part of the idea for the show, is that I would talk to writers across a wide range, meaning I talk to a guy like George Saunders, or I’ll talk to Cheryl Strayed, or I’ll talk to Susan Orlean, or I’ll talk to Edwidge Danticat, Tom Perrotta, those really recognizable, at least within the realm of the literary world, names. Then I’m also talking to people who are debut authors on indie presses. Or I’m talking to poets, and nobody knows who any poets are practically. I’m not interested in only talking to people who have somehow managed to get some kind of media traction or name recognition. I’m interested in talking to writers who are at the beginning of the process, too. I think that’s just as interesting. Sometimes it’s more interesting. I’m mostly curious about people generally, and I happen to interview writers. I like writers as people. I have a great deal of sympathy for people who do this, who try to do this work, and feel driven to do it. Whatever that is, whatever formula that is inside of a human being, I tend to gravitate towards, and I like. It’s just fun to talk to them. Kelton Reid: For listeners who don’t know of your writing as well, you’re also a bestselling author. Brad Listi: Bestselling is generous, but I’ll take it. Kelton Reid: I loved your novel. Attention Deficit Disorder spoke to me at a time in my life, actually, when I just moved away from Los Angeles. I found the connection that you had to Colorado very interesting. But it’s kind of what’s-it-all mean novel. It really connected with me. I love the format. I love the writing itself. Anyway, where can we find more of your writing? I know that you have an online community. You’re constantly getting your hands into other projects. What are you working on presently? Brad Listi: I don’t mean to be cryptic. I’ve got a book going that’s been going forever. I published an experimental work of nonfiction with a writer named Justin Benton a couple of years ago called Board. It’s like a literary collage, ripped from comment boards on The Nervous Breakdown. I was just interested, and Justin was interested, in comment board culture and what people say on the Internet. We made this like weird book of literary collage out of it and called it Board, so that’s out there. Then I’ve been working on a book for a long time. I’m also working on film and TV stuff, which I can’t fully talk about. I’m trying to get something going there. It might go. It might not go. It’s that kind of thing. That’s been occupying a lot of my time. Then doing the podcast, running The Nervous Breakdown in all of its various iterations. It’s a full schedule, and being a parent. The time goes away quickly. Kelton Reid: The Nervous Breakdown is a great stop also for writers to discover new writing. I’ll point to that in the show notes as well. Do you want to talk about your productivity a little bit as a writer? The Magic of Deadlines, Caffeine, and Word Counts Brad Listi: Yeah. It’s in fits and starts. I’m good with a deadline, and if I have a project and I know that has like a real shape to it time-wise, I’m able to lock in. Otherwise, when I have the free time to work on a book, the problem with me is that I feel like I need a good chunk of time to get my head into the right space to inhabit the world of the book and to really feel like I have a rhythm. My life has not been able to accommodate that consistently. I have it in pockets. I’ll go to work on it, and then I’ll get pulled into another project that has a deadline attached to it and probably money. And I’ll have to go there. That’s the way that it’s been going. I have been struggling mightily to write the second book. I wrote an entire novel called City of Champions, which I trashed. It was 130,000 words. Kelton Reid: Wow. Brad Listi: Yeah. Then I wrote an entire another novel draft, trashed it. It’s been like that for me. It has not been easy. This is not something that comes easily to me at all. It’s been very frustrating. Then you compound that with trying to make a living and support a family, and it’s challenging. It’s still a work in progress in terms of trying to figure out how to make it all happen. But the good news is that there could be potentially a glimmer of light. It’s the best I can tell you. Kelton Reid: Well that’s good to hear. When you are working on any kind of project that requires you to sit in one place, do you have any pregame rituals or practices that help you get into that mode? Brad Listi: Yeah, caffeine. Just caffeine. It’s caffeine. I used to exercise and then work. Now, lately, I have been working and then exercising. In a perfect world, I’d get up really early and work. Actually, I don’t know. In a perfect world, I’d get up really early and go for a hike someplace beautiful, a couple of hours, then come down and work. Be unimpeded. But usually morning, drink some caffeine, get in front of the keyboard. I had a pocket of time earlier this spring where I was really working for about six weeks. That’s the way I was doing it. I usually operate on a word count just to give myself a no BS metric. I have to see how many words I’m getting in order to actually chart my progress. I write it down so that it’s externalized. It’s not just something that I keep in my head. I actually have it on paper day by day, so I can see what I’m doing. Because it can get really easy to sort of spin your wheels. That’s going to happen inevitably. At some point in the writing process, you’re going to have to backtrack and cut pages, or you’re going to get stuck in a certain section and just grind away and not get anywhere for a while. If I don’t write it down, I can wind up grinding away for a long time. It be like, “I feel like I’m working,” but the book has not advanced. The narrative has not advanced in six weeks or whatever. It’s just helpful for me to do it that way. It keeps me accountable. Kelton Reid: Do you prefer silence, or do you like to listen to music while you’re typing, writing? Brad Listi: Like ambient music. I’ve written parts of books at least where music has helped me in terms of getting an emotional tone, getting myself into the right emotional, tonal headspace to write whatever section it is or whatever project I’m working on. I don’t like to write with music that has lyrics and people are singing in my head. It’s too many voices, and I’ll start singing along. It’s just distracting. If I could ever find silence — I live in Los Angeles, there’s no such thing. I have small children, a small child with another one on the way, so silence is hard to come by. That would be pretty awesome if I could find that, but not any time soon. Kelton Reid: When you are in that pocket of productivity, do you find yourself needing to sit down every day? Brad Listi: Yeah. I’m very rhythmic. That’s what I mean by ‘rhythm.’ What’s frustrating is that if I could set up a schedule where I was able to do it every day at the same time. The other thing, too, some of these people, I was talking to Aimee Bender on my show. She has young twins and was talking about how she’s writing in seven-minute pockets of time, whatever’s available to her, which is the resourceful, admirable, intelligent way to go about it. For me, I need a few hours. I need a couple of hours just to mess around before I can even get started. I don’t know why. That’s the way it’s always been for me. I have to warm up. I have to sit there and re-read it. It takes me a while to get back into it. It’s always been that way. Maybe I’m doing something wrong. Four hours is a minimal pocket of time in order for me to get 500 to 1000 words, unless I’m really caffeinated. Kelton Reid: Do you edit while you work, like as you go? Why First Drafts Are Like Ironing a Shirt Brad Listi: Yeah. I try to write the best possible first draft that I can. I’m not somebody who just sits there and let’s it rip. I’m always trying to write the best I can, and at the same time, I’m trying to make sure that I don’t get too nitpicky and stifle myself or let the inner critic or whatever overtake the process. I find that if you’re too permissive, then it can let you off the hook. You let yourself off the hook, and you get into lazy writing, which isn’t helpful. Then you have this huge mess to clean up. I liken it to ironing a shirt. When you’re working on a first draft, it’s like when you iron a shirt and you’re always sliding the shirt over to go back to where you just were. I don’t know if that’s the right visual. But I’ll write, and then I’ll reread what I’ve written, usually all the way from the beginning. This is another reason why it takes me forever. I’ll start, I could be on page 150 of a book, and every morning, I get up and I start on page one and I reread — and I’m just ironing. Then I’m getting back in, and then I’m trying to advance it 500 or 1000 words or whatever. That doesn’t mean that I’m not skimming. There’s certain sections where you know you have it or you need to come back to it later and focus time. That’s how I do it. Kelton Reid: You’ve interviewed so many authors, and I’m sure that you’ve asked this same question of them. Do you believe in writer’s block? Do you get writer’s block or do you have a superstition about it? Brad Listi: No. I think you just do the work, and you just write something. I can understand being blocked with respect to a particular project, or you hit some sort of impasse. There is such a thing as getting to a point where you realize a book is not going to work, or you’re just out of juice for the time being. I don’t get the whole thing where I’m too scared to say anything. You can’t let yourself have that. You just get to work. If that’s the way it is, and it’s consistent and it’s prolonged, then I think you need to consider finding other ways to occupy yourself. Kelton Reid: If I could pick your brain a little bit about your workflow over there. What kind of hardware or typewriter are you presently clacking away on over there? Brad Listi: Just a MacBook Pro, either Microsoft Word or Scribner. Nothing out of the ordinary. Kelton Reid: Do you have any methods for staying organized? Do you use outlines, et cetera? Brad Listi: No, I don’t outline. I work intuitively. The outlines that I have, it would be too generous to call them outlines. I’ll have a document where I’m keeping notes and scraps and what not, but it’s not like a great system or some sort of really ingenious method. Again, I feel like all these things could be improved upon. You know? Kelton Reid: Yeah. Brad Listi: There’s lots of room for improvement. Kelton Reid: Definitely. Well, I think all of us feel that way, but talking about it helps. Brad Listi: Yeah, that’s right. I mean I’ve been doing it for the past four years. Kelton Reid: The talking cure, so to speak. I think Austin Kleon is the one who, first at least, pointed to productive procrastination in his stuff. It sounds like what you’re doing when you do get into that mode is that you’re doing a productive procrastination prior to getting into it. Do you have any other methods for beating procrastination or is that something you wane into? Brad Listi: Just deadlines, self-loathing. Eventually you’re just like, “What the heck am I doing? I got to get to work.” I’ll be reading something that inspires me, or I’ll reread whatever I’ve been writing to get back into the voice and to figure out what’s going to happen next. Again, because I’m not working through an outline. It almost feels like I got to get this momentum. The rereading, you inhabit not only the voice of the book but also the world of the book, and then you get caught up in the narrative momentum of the book if you’re really concentrated. Then when you get into that leaping off point, if you’ve got the right momentum, then you can usually figure it out, or you can make some progress. I think that’s part of it. Kelton Reid: Nice. Brad Listi: Otherwise, in terms of prep or constructive procrastination or whatever, again, sometimes it could be more constructive. Sometimes I’m just on Facebook or whatever. Kelton Reid: How do you unplug at the end of a session? The Importance of Meditation for ‘Unplugging’ Brad Listi: Meditation. I mediate twice a day on a good day. Always once lately, but usually twice. The best thing I can do is sit for 20 minutes to 40 minutes and just do that — focus on breathing and try not to think so much. It really does reset me. Kelton Reid: Just a quick pause to mention that The Writer Files is brought to you by the Rainmaker Platform, the complete website solution for content marketers and online entrepreneurs. Find out more and take your free 14-day test drive at Rainmaker.FM/Platform. If we could dive into creativity a little bit. Can you define creativity in your own words? How Brad Defines Creativity Brad Listi: Let me see here. Making stuff. God, man, that’s a tough one. You’re taking disparate elements and combining them to make something that didn’t previously exist. I’m interested in the composite nature of creativity. Any work of art, I’m always fascinated when the sourcing of it is articulated, or you can figure it out by reading, like in the context of literature, like literary biography. That’s another reason I think that I like doing the podcast. I like getting into some of that, where you’re talking to somebody and figuring out what were these disparate elements that they pulled together to write this? What were the things that were bothering them? Who were the authors that they were turning to or leaning on when they were putting their initial ideas for their book together, when it was still in the realm of abstraction? I think that’s what it is to me. I’m very much a fan of collage art. I’m very much a fan of odd combinations. I think my novel is a testament to that. I like the idea of digression. I like the idea of nonfiction infused with fiction. Mini biography, all that kind of stuff really appeals to me. Kelton Reid: Those are some of the most appealing parts of your novel for sure, that infused fiction nonfiction. I love the quotes, the definitions, how it jumps. Brad Listi: I think I could do without the definitions, or at least just a couple. I think I overdid it on those. But one thing I really like, not about my own book but that would maybe further clarify what I’m trying to say, is that I really love books that are explicit reactions to reading. All books are in some way a reaction to what the author is reading. I really love authors that you can tell, either explicitly or implicitly or in the endnotes or whatever, that they’re really responding to a book or a set of books, or they have like a central question that they’re trying to get the answer to and have done the research around it, and that kind of thing. There’s something about the transparency of that, that appeals to me and that I find heroic. Kelton Reid: Do you have a creative muse at the moment? Brad Listi: I’m sure I do. I love Louis CK like everybody else. I think it’s because of the way in which he conveys how humiliating life is. I agree with that. It’s like it’s just humiliating to be alive, painful. It’s just such an awkward mess. He finds the funny in that. That sensibility really appeals to me. I mean I’m going to sound corny, but my daughter — just because when you have a four year old you have a young child, right? Kelton Reid: I do. Brad Listi: Being around kids, whether they’re your own or they’re other people’s, there’s something wonderful about how free they are in terms of how they create. Just having her sit there and scribble on a piece of paper and draw something. There’s no self-consciousness. There’s no self-editing. There’s no, “This is bad,” or “This is good.” It’s all free. That is fun to be around and a good reminder. Kelton Reid: That’s fun. Yeah, they have no filter whatsoever. It’s funny because definitely some of your monologue work on your show reminds me of Louis CK. Brad Listi: Oh really? Kelton Reid: Yeah. Pointing out the absurdity of everyday stuff, which is great. Brad Listi: I appreciate it. I think that’s generous. I watch his show. I listen. I’ve taken his standup, and I listen to a lot of Howard Stern. I listen to a lot of Maron. I listen to a lot of Terry Gross, Charlie Rose. I love interview shows in addition to doing one. I have all these people who I’ve been listening to for years and who I think were inspirational when I went to start my own little podcast. I feel like, inevitably, some of the rhythms of their delivery and some of the things that they are fixated upon, they’re going to work their way into my show somehow. Kelton Reid: II have one Louis CK standup seared into my brain, and it’s the Chewed Up special that he did. I’ll jump to what makes a writer great. How Great Writers Capture a Moment That Others Can’t Brad Listi: I think the ability to tap into and articulate well what everybody else is thinking but doesn’t have the words to say. There are some writers who are preternaturally good at that. I think a really terrific intellect is a big part of it as well. I always think of Don DeLillo whenever I think of somebody who’s just got a Teflon brain. I know David Foster Wallace is often thought of in that context, but DeLillo, it’s frightening to me. His brain is just so sharp. There’s a lot of writers like that. It’s not just contemporary. It’s not just men, obviously. It runs the gamut. There are a lot of great writers, and I think they’re all just terrifically intelligent. But in addition to having brain smarts, I think having a real sense of the human heart and having a real sense of humor. To be contradictory, I don’t know if DeLillo is a super funny writer. I know nothing about him in person. But recollecting his work, I don’t think of it as like being super funny, but I love that alchemy. I think a great writer can write tragedy and comedy in the same sentence, because that kind of sentence and that kind of work holds a mirror up to the world. There’s the old adage that the world is tragic, terrible and tragic and dark and absurd and hilarious, and often at the same time. I think that’s totally true, and really great art should reflect that. Then, again, there are great books that are like super dramatic and not funny at all. So it’s not like it’s got to be just my way, but that’s what I look for. If I can find a writer who does that. Whenever anybody asks me that question “What’s your favorite book?” — which is an impossible question to answer, I always say Journey to the End of the Night and Death or the Installment Plan, the two books by Louis Ferdinand Celine. I almost said Louis Ferdinand CK. But those two books, when I read them in my early 20s, blew me away. In the aftermath, reading up on Celine and trying to figure out who he was as a guy, you find yourself conflicted because he was a Nazi sympathizer in his later years. It got a little sketchy there. But he was a soldier in World War One. He suffered head trauma. He had a hard life in a lot of respects and regardless of how he conducted himself in his personal life in his later years or what his political beliefs might have been, those two books have a ton of humanity in them, and a ton of really deep intellect, a lot of heart, and a lot of really dark humor. I don’t know if it’s the translation. I guess the translation must be a big part of it, but those books always struck me in terms of how well they’ve aged. You read those books or I read those books at the turn of a century — they were published in like 1930s — and they didn’t seem dated at all to me, other than maybe some of the context in terms of what was happening in the books, the war or whatever. There’s just something really immediate about them and just wildly smart and funny and dark. The sense that I find myself having when I put down a book that I really admire is that it says everything. There’s just nothing left, and I got it. Another book that I had that feeling about was A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius. Again, at the time that I read it, again, I was probably 21 years old or whatever. I was at the Boulder Bookstore, and for whatever reason, I picked that book up in hardcover, and I bought it. I read it, and I was like, “Oh man, that’s it.” It just summed up a moment. When you write something like that, that captures a moment, and I guess from a certain perspective, it really resonates. You obviously can’t say everything, but if you can capture a little sliver of it in a really full way, it has that feeling of saying everything. I don’t know if I articulated that well, but you know what I mean — hopefully. Kelton Reid: I think you articulated quite well. A couple of fun ones, and you may have already answered this, but who is your favorite literally character? Brad Listi: Hang on. Kelton Reid: I’m going to keep the silence in. Brad Listi: Yeah. I want the audience to feel the weight of the silence. Kelton Reid: That’s a terrible question, I know. Brad Listi: No. There’s the Kilgore Trout, but I don’t really feel like I grabbed on, and Bardamu in Journey to the End of the Night is not exactly somebody you lionize. You know what I’m saying? A lot of the literary characters in the books that I’ve liked best are not exactly heroic. I like the anti-hero. I always thought that Bukowski narrator was funny. There’s a guy who could write funny, like genuinely laugh-out-loud funny, at least for me, in his best stuff. God, you know who else I really liked? I liked the narrator in the Ben Learner novel Leaving the Atocha Station. To go back to the whole thing about capturing a moment, there’s something about that book that feels it’s getting it. It’s getting its time perfectly right, or at least it did for me, a certain kind of obsessive self-consciousness coupled with the moment in terms of geopolitics and technology and how we live now. I don’t know, but that narrator actually made me laugh. I always go to writing that feels really deeply smart but also funny, and that’s rare. Kelton Reid: Yeah, absolutely. Writing that doesn’t take itself too seriously, even though it might be. Brad Listi: Well, I don’t want just a silly book. If it’s just a bunch of like jokes, then that’s easy, but if it’s somebody who’s really got something to say and the laughs come unexpectedly. If I laugh out loud while reading a book, I’m sold. It doesn’t happen very often. Kelton Reid: If you could choose one author living or dead for an all-expense paid dinner to your favorite restaurants, who would you choose, and where would you go? Brad Listi: Let’s do some more silence here. Oh, living or dead. A few years ago, I probably would’ve said Gore Vidal in his prime just because I always thought he was so funny and such a great talker. But then I watched this documentary and you read the postmortem about his later years. Then was a book, this guy — I’m already forgetting his name — just wrote a book, which I didn’t really love. It was called Sympathy for the Devil. It was a guy who knew Gore going back to his years in Rome in 70s or whatever, and it was just a mess. Life, especially if it’s lived long, usually ends messy one way or another because old age is a massacre or whatever. It’s just tough to get old, but it’s especially tough to get old when you’re drinking a gallon of whiskey every day. There’s a part of me that really admired and just loved Vidal for being such a wit, so stinking funny and so sharp and acidic — just good company. I imagine that, at his best, he was really fun to sit at a dinner table with, but he could also be really mean and sloppy. He came unhinged at the end. I’ll say Gore Vidal, but in his prime. Kelton Reid: Okay. Where would you take him? Brad Listi: God, I don’t think I would take him anywhere. I think he would probably pick the restaurant. Let’s just say somewhere in Revello. Kelton Reid: Okay, perfect. Do you have a writer’s fetish at all? Brad Listi: No, I don’t even know what that is. Like I have to have a certain like pen or something? Kelton Reid: Yeah, I don’t know. I know fetish has a couple of different meanings, but yeah, do you collect weird writerly paraphernalia? Brad Listi: No. I’m the least sentimental person ever. Even baby pictures, I’m like, “Shred them. I don’t need them. It’s too much clutter. I don’t care.” I just need some space, quiet, or be in a coffee shop with some headphones on, but I’m not super nitpicky about having to have a certain kind of pen or anything like that. Kelton Reid: Who or what has been your greatest teacher? Brad Listi: The books and the writers that wrote them, no doubt. It starts with the work itself. If I were going to add a dimension that might differentiate me even a little bit, it would be that I almost always get into nonfiction if I like a writer’s fiction or if I like a writer’s work period. Meaning, I’ll always go in search of literary biography, which maybe makes my podcast make more sense. To be really frank with you, I’m often more interested in the literary biography than I was in the work, even when I loved the work. I’m very fascinated with the people who make the work, why they do it, and who they were. That kind of detective work is interesting to me. I guess that might mean that I should write biography. I haven’t done it yet. I don’t know if a straight biography is exactly what I’m wired to do, but some component of that is fascinating. I think the podcast is a form of literary biography, in the aggregate especially. That element of it has been probably the most important thing that I have done in terms of getting an education. That includes getting an MFA. It’s just got to be the case for anybody who does this. You have to read books that move you, and you have to really read them — and sometimes re-read them. Then the other thing about it is that, when I was coming up, I went through a period of about two or three years where every morning I would print out one or two interviews with authors. I just built this huge library of author interviews that I read, and I keep them in a filing cabinet. We’re talking thousands of pages when it was all said and done. I just had this huge library of them. We talked about earlier, rituals to get like ready to work or whatever, that’s what I was doing in my 20s. I would read author interviews and that would get me excited about working, just to hear them talking about the work, why they did the work, how they did the work, and successes they’d had or struggles that they had overcome. That can be extremely helpful and even medicinal, especially if you’re stuck, or you’re feeling down, or your energy level is low. Part of my motivation in doing the podcast is to get some of that for myself, but also to create a place for writers to come and hear and commiserate, virtually at least, and hopefully leave with a little bit more energy or a little bit more hope about their own lives and work. Kelton Reid: You’ve just amassed so much advice from other writers. Do you have any advice yourself, kind of sage advice for fellow scribes on just how to keep going, how to keep the cursor moving? 3 Key Takeaways from over 350 Interviews with Writers Brad Listi: Read a lot, and read interviews with the authors that you love. Find out about their lives because it’s a great way to demystify it. It’s a great way to take them down off their pedestal. Humanizing people we admire is important. It’s often instructive because you can figure out how they did and what happened to them when they hit adversity and how they handled it and so on and so forth. It’s not always great, either. You don’t necessarily learn from the best example every time. Sometimes you learn from the worst example. You learn what to avoid. So there’s that. Having done almost 400 interviews with writers, I think I’ve gleaned it. I try to boil it all down into the simplest possible insights into the writing life, if I can remember them. One of them was don’t do it for money. The writers that I’ve talked to who seem the most well-adjusted and often have the most success, they’re definitely having the most fun doing it. There just not thinking of it like, “Oh I got to make a living from this,” or, “I got to make a million dollars from this.” They’re doing it because they love it. They don’t care if they make money. They like to do it. It makes their life better. That’s one thing. Then if the money comes, great. But it’s not why you do it. It’s not anything you’re expecting. The other thing is read a lot. I’ve said this many times, but one of the big dirty secrets amongst so many writers is they don’t read, or they don’t read regularly, or enough. That’s a bad formula. Don’t do it for money, read a lot, and then write every day or close to it. Those are the three things. If you can do that, you’re likely going to get books done, and you’re not going to be miserable doing it. That’s the best I can tell you. Those are three common denominators. Obviously, it’s a little bit different for everyone, and there are always outliers and exceptions to the rule. But those are the three things, if I had to boil it down, that I’ve come away with after talking to all these writers. Kelton Reid: That’s fantastic advice. Where can fellow writers connect with you out there? Brad Listi: The podcast has its own website. It’s Otherppl.com. Then you can follow the show on Twitter, @Otherppl. Then you can follow me @BradListi on Twitter. Those are probably the best places to keep up with things. The podcast also had its own app, which is free. You can get it wherever you can get apps. You get that app on your device, and then the most recent 50 episodes are available free. You get the app and the most recent 50 shows are just there waiting for you. Then if you want to get to the deeper archives, you can sign up for premium, which is as cheap as like 75 cents a month. It’s 75 cents a month, and you get access to everything. Those are the best ways. Get the app and you should be off and running. Kelton Reid: That’s fantastic. The six degrees of Brad Listi. You probably have some connection to every great contemporary writer at this point. Brad Listi: Fewer than six degrees I would bet. Not that I know them, but I’m sure I know somebody who knows somebody who knows them. Kelton Reid: Thank you so much for taking the time. I do encourage writers to seek out the podcast and also your writing, and I really appreciate you taking the time. Brad Listi: It was absolutely my pleasure, Kelton. Thanks for having me on. Kelton Reid: Cheers. Great advice that all writers should heed. For more episodes of The Writer Files and all of the show notes or to leave us a comment or a question, please drop by at WriterFiles.FM. You can always chat with me on Twitter @KeltonReid. Cheers. See you out there.

Real Food (start time 4:20): What we eat , and how we eat, is inextricably connected to our own health as well as the health of the planet.  Every decision we make—whether to bake a chocolate cake or buy it from Safeway or at a Farmer’s Market—is full of nuances and even contradictions. Megan Kimble is a writer who became obsessed with wondering how she could make a difference in the world by examining her eating habits. Her just-published book, called Unprocessed: My City-Dwelling Year of Reclaiming Real Food, is her personal journey into the scientific, public health, environmental and political issues related to food. Kimble will  speak tonight at the Boulder Book Store, at 7:30, and tomorrow night, July 30, at Tattered Cover in Denver, at 7:00 p.m. The Buzz About Bees (start time 13:49): Across the United States, buzzing pollinators are key to the growth of countless flowering plants. But many bee species are also disappearing nationwide, due to pesticide use, habitat loss, and other threats.  Dr. Sam Droege is a wildlife biologist who studies this vanishing world. He heads up the U.S. Geological Survey’s Native Bee Inventory and Monitoring Lab. For several years he’s also led an effort to photograph bees — very, very close up.  Droege’s bee photos are the basis for a new book called “Bees: An Up-Close Look at Pollinators Around the World.” Hosts: Susan Moran, Daniel Strain Producers: Susan Moran, Daniel Strain Executive Producer: Susan Moran Headline contributions: Daniel Strain Listen to the show here:

On today's spring pledge-drive show we offer segments of two feature interviews. See extended versions also below. Both books are available to those who pledge at least $60 to KGNU. Call 303.449.4885 today. Rust: The Longest War (start time: 4:25) It is arguably the most destructive natural disaster in the modern world. And it's the topic of local journalist Jonathan Waldman's debut book, which has just been published. It’s called Rust: The Longest War. Jonathan talks with How On Earth host Susan Moran about the book, which included fascinating tales of the "smart pig" that inspects the Alaska pipeline, as well as Ball Corp’s Can School in Golden, Colo. Catch Jonathan tonight  7:30 at the Boulder Book Store. The Moral Arc (start time: 13:21) Author and renowned skeptic Michael Shermer talks with How On Earth contributor Shelley Schlender about his The Moral Arc: How Science and Reason Lead Humanity toward Truth, Justice, and Freedom. The book addresses a wide range of modern issues, including just how science and reasons can help to pave the way toward further reductions in nuclear warheads, toward greater equality for people with different gender and sexual orientations, and toward the abolishment of the death penalty. That's pretty optimistic for the nation’s best known skeptic! Hosts: Kendra Krueger, Susan Moran Producer: Susan Moran Engineer: Kendra Krueger Executive Producer: Kendra Krueger Listen here to the show.

This week on How On Earth co-host Susan Moran interviews Hannah Nordhaus, Boulder-based author of the new book, The Beekeeper's Lament: How One Man and Half a Billion Honey Bees Feed America. Nordhaus describes how one passionate, colorful and quixotic beekeeper named John Miller struggles against all odds to keep beekeeping--and bees--alive at a time when they're being slammed by a mysterious mixture of Colony Collapse Disorder, varroa mites and other maladies. Nordhaus will give a reading at the Boulder Book Store on June 30, 7:30 p.m. Hosts: Joel Parker and Susan Moran Producer: Susan Moran Engineer: Joel Parker    

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