Podcasts about other astonishments

Our website - www.perksofbeingabooklover.com. Instagram - @perksofbeingabookloverpod Facebook - Perks of Being a Book Lover. To send us a message go to our website and click the Contact button.   You can find Holly Gramazio at her website https://www.hollygramazio.net/ or on IG at holly_gramazio   When we first heard the premise of Holly Gramazio's novel The Husbands, we were intrigued. A woman's husband goes up to the attic to retrieve something and down comes…a different husband. Wouldn't we all sometimes like to exchange the husband we have for a better, newer, or just different model? Holly turned this idea into a novel that is both funny and thoughtfully considered. It may not, in fact, be such a great thing to have an endless supply of potential husbands so easy to exchange.  Her book has been optioned by Apple Plus for a limited series and I just saw that Juno Temple, the actress who played Keeley in the Ted Lasso series, is slated to play the starring role.   And because it is April, and April is National Poetry Month, we're discussing books related to poets. Not everyone loves poetry, but these books aren't actually poetry–so you can still partake of poetry month. They are historical fiction, memoirs, essays, and children's books written by or inspired by poets.    Books Mentioned in This Episode:   1- The Husbands by Holly Gramazio   2- Lakewood by Megan Giddings   3- I Used to Live Here Once: The Haunted Life of Jean Rhys by Miranda Seymour   4- Wide Sargasso Sea by Jean Rhys     5- Jane Eyre by Charlotte Bronte     6- The Animals in That Country by Laura Jean McKay     7- Thank You for Calling the Lesbian Line by Elizabeth Lovett     8- Saint X by Alexis Schaitkin     9-  A Five Star Read Recommended by Fellow Book Lover  Chelsea @2_girls_bookin_it - The Endless Fall by Emmerson Hoyt     10- The Swan's Nest by Laura Mcneal     11- You Could Make This Place Beautiful by Maggie Smith     12- Memorial Drive by Natasha Trethaway     13- Emily's House by Amy Belding Brown     14- Finding Langston by Lesa Cline-Ransome     15- Bite by Bite: Nourishments and Jamborees by Aimee Nezhukumatathil     16- World of Wonders: In Praise of Fireflies, Whale Sharks, and Other Astonishments by Aimee Nezhukumatathil     17- The Poet's Dog by Patricia McLachlan     Media mentioned-- 1- Severance (Apple+, 2022 - Present)   2- Reduced Shakespeare Company--https://www.reducedshakespeare.com   3- Saint X (Hulu, 2023)      

Happy watching, reading, and listening this week!Margery:Watch: It Happened One Night on AppleTV Read: World of Wonders: In Praise of Fireflies, Whale Sharks and Other Astonishments by Aimee NezhukumatathilListen: Managing Expectations: A Memoir in Essays by Minnie Driver on Libby Garr:Watch: Adolescence on Netflix Read: https://www.strongtowns.org/Listen: The Weekly Show with Jon Stewart @WeeklyShowPodcast (Episodes with Oren Cass or Michael Lewis)Pour Moi Climate Smart Skincare – This is the skincare regimen we both use and love. It's affordable luxury skincare from France. It's unlike any skincare line in the world – and so are the results. Use code 20SPRING for an extra 20% off almost everything in the Pour Moi store online! https://shop.pourmoiskincare.com/Connect with Us!Our Website: https://www.besttothenest.com/On Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/besttothenest?utm_source=ig_web_button_share_sheet&igsh=ZDNlZDc0MzIxNw==Our Facebook Group: https://www.facebook.com/groups/1088997968155776/Best to the Nest is our podcast all about creating strong, comfortable, beautiful nests that prepare us to fly. We are the podcast that brings you home. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoicesSee Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.

Happy watching, reading, and listening this week! Margery: Watch: It Happened One Night on AppleTV  Read: World of Wonders: In Praise of Fireflies, Whale Sharks and Other Astonishments by Aimee Nezhukumatathil Listen: Managing Expectations: A Memoir in Essays by Minnie Driver on Libby  Garr: Watch: Adolescence on Netflix  Read: https://www.strongtowns.org/ Listen: The Weekly Show with Jon Stewart @WeeklyShowPodcast (Episodes with Oren Cass or Michael Lewis) Pour Moi Climate Smart Skincare – This is the skincare regimen we both use and love. It's affordable luxury skincare from France. It's unlike any skincare line in the world – and so are the results. Use code 20SPRING for an extra 20% off almost everything in the Pour Moi store online! https://shop.pourmoiskincare.com/ Connect with Us! Our Website: https://www.besttothenest.com/ On Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/besttothenest?utm_source=ig_web_button_share_sheet&igsh=ZDNlZDc0MzIxNw== Our Facebook Group:  https://www.facebook.com/groups/1088997968155776/ Best to the Nest is our podcast all about creating strong, comfortable, beautiful nests that prepare us to fly. We are the podcast that brings you home. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

On this episode, Jenn Moland-Kovash and I discuss our shared interest in thrift-store book sections, the joy of walking around a bookstore and pointing out the books we have read, and her theories about why romantasy is popular. Jenn also gets me on a roll about the difference between book collecting and reading and why sprayed edges mean nothing to me.    The Mail-a-Book program is still alive and well! The Read & Run Chicago Gift Guide    Books mentioned in this episode:    What Betsy's reading:  The City and It's Uncertain Walls by Haruki Murakami  How to Sell a Haunted House by Grady Hendrix  Yr Dead by Sam Sax  Not my Father's Son by Alan Cumming  Still Life by Louise Penny    Books Highlighted by Jenn: Beartown by Fredrik Backman Us Against You by Fredrik Backman  The Winners by Fredrik Backman  The Covenant of Water by Abraham Verghese  Pachinko by Min Jin Lee  First Lie Wins by Ashley Elston  The God of Endings by Jacqueline Holland  World of Wonders: In Praise of Fireflies, Whale Sharks, and Other Astonishments by Aimee Nezhukumatathil & Fumi Nakamura  Take What You Need by Idra Novey The Art of Losing: Poems of Grief and Healing by Kevin Young Everything Happens for a Reason: And Other Lies that I've Loved by Kate Bowler    All books available on my Bookshop.org episode page.   Other books mentioned in this episode: Nora Goes off Script by Annabel Monaghan  Little House on the Prairie by Laura Ingalls Wilder  Roll of Thunder, Hear My Cry by Mildred D. Taylor  The Color Purple by Alice Walker  Iron Lake by William Kent Krueger  The Widows of Malabar Hill by Sujata Massey  The Abominable by Dan Simmons  A Court of Thorns and Roses by Sarah J. Maas  Fourth Wing by Rebecca Yarros  Shark Heart: A Love Story by Emily Habeck  Demon Copperhead by Barbara Kingsolver  Margo's Got Money Troubles by Rufi Thorpe  This is How You Lose the Time War by Amal El-Mohtar  The Hunger Games by Suzanne Collins  Divergent by Veronica Roth  Memphis by Tara M. Stringfellow Martyr! By Kaveh Akbar  How to Say Babylon: A Memoir by Safiya Sinclair  The Swifts: A Dictionary of Scoundrels by Beth Lincoln & Claire Powell  The Wren in the Holly Library by K.A. Linde

Chris spoke with two first-time guests, Sarah Bessey and Sarah McCammon about the Exvangelical movement and so-called 'deconstruction' in American Christianity. They speak about their own experiences in conservative, evangelical Christianity, how they approached deconstruction, what they are observing about deconstruction in our cultural moment, and of course, what they are currently reading.Books Mentioned in this Episode:If you'd like to order any of the following books, we encourage you to do so from Hearts and Minds Books(An independent bookstore in Dallastown, PA, run by Byron and Beth Borger) Field Notes for the Wilderness: Practices for an Evolving Faith by Sarah BesseyThe Exvangelicals: Loving, Living and Leaving the White Evangelical Church by Sarah McCammonJesus and John Wayne: How White Evangelicals Corrupted a Faith and Fractured a Nation by Kristin Kobes du MezWhere God Happens: Discovering Christ in One Another by Rowan WilliamsStrange Gods: A Secular History of Conversion by Susan JacobyShark Heart: A Love Story by Emily HabeckThe Understory: An Invitation to Rootedness and Resilience from the Forest Floor by Lore Ferguson WilbertBraiding Sweetgrass: Indigenous Wisdom, Scientific Knowledge and the Teachings of Plants by Robin Wall KimmererBite by Bite: Nourishments and Jamborees by Aimee NezhukumatathilWorld of Wonders: In Praise of Fireflies, Whale Sharks and Other Astonishments by Aimee Nezhukumatathil

This episode we're giving our book pitches for our Battle of the Books 2023! Each of us has picked one title that we think we should all read and discuss and you get to vote for which one it is! Will we read Trust Kids!: Stories on Youth Autonomy and Confronting Adult Supremacy edited by carla joy bergman, The Seep by Chana Porter, A Wizard's Guide to Defensive Baking by T Kingfisher, or Inheritance: a Pick-the-path Experience by Daniel Arnold, Darrell Dennis, and Medina Hahn? You decide!  You can download the podcast directly, find it on Libsyn, or get it through Apple Podcasts or your favourite podcast delivery system. In this episode Anna Ferri | Meghan Whyte | Matthew Murray

This is a re-airing of our 2021 episode with the poet and bestselling essayist Aimee Nezhukumatathil. We're celebrating the release of her new collection, BITE BY BITE: NOURISHMENTS AND JAMBOREES. Come for the new intro about pizza on the beach, stay for Aimee's reflections on everything from champion trees to 80s-era Madonna to what society tells us about who "gets to" be comfortable in nature.Aimee Nezhukumatathil is the author of the New York Times best-selling illustrated collection of nature essays and Kirkus Prize finalist, WORLD OF WONDERS: IN PRAISE OF FIREFLIES, WHALE SHARKS, & OTHER ASTONISHMENTS (2020, Milkweed Editions), which was chosen as Barnes and Noble's Book of the Year. She has four previous poetry collections: OCEANIC (Copper Canyon Press, 2018), LUCKY FISH (2011), AT THE DRIVE-IN VOLCANO (2007), and MIRACLE FRUIT (2003), the last three from Tupelo Press. Her most recent chapbook is LACE & PYRITE, a collaboration of epistolary garden poems with the poet Ross Gay. Honors include a poetry fellowship from the National Endowment for the Arts, the Pushcart Prize, a Mississippi Arts Council grant, and being named a Guggenheim Fellow in poetry. She is professor of English and Creative Writing in the University of Mississippi's MFA program.For more Thresholds, visit us at www.thisisthresholds.com Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

This episode we're discussing the topic(?) of Indie Publishers! We talk about how to define an indie publisher, weirdo metro stories, song lyrics, and more! You can download the podcast directly, find it on Libsyn, or get it through Apple Podcasts or your favourite podcast delivery system. In this episode Anna Ferri | Meghan Whyte | Matthew Murray

Rebecca and Tara discuss their latest reads! Rebecca (@canadareadsamericanstyle): There There; Wandering Stars by Tommy Orange The Street by Ann Petry The Fountain Overflows by Rebecca West Sisters of the Spruce by Leslie Shimotakahara My Ántonia by Willa Cather Wrong Time Wrong Place by Gillian McAllister Tara (@onabranchreads): Peril in Pink by Sydney Leigh The Song of Achilles; Circe by Madeline Miller Son of Elsewhere: A Memoir in Pieces by Elamin Abdelmahmoud; Commotion (CBC Radio One) Fangirl Down by Tessa Bailey Fire Weather: A True Story from a Hotter World; The Golden Spruce: A True Story of Myth, Madness, and Greed; The Tiger: A True Story of Vengeance and Survival by John Vaillant The Lost Garden by Helen Humphreys World of Wonders: In Praise of Fireflies, Whale Sharks, and Other Astonishments by Aimee Nezhukumatathil, Fumi Nakamura (illustrator) Better Living Through Birding: Notes from a Black Man in the Natural World by Christian Cooper A Man Downstairs by Nicole Lundrigan  

33: I WHALE ALWAYS LOVE YOU | The Butanding (Philippine Whaleshark) In this episode, we learn about the ancestor of all sea life, the gentle giant, the largest fish in the whole world, and one of our very favorite animals – the whaleshark.  A frequent visitor to the Philippines, the whaleshark has inspired legends from all around the world and we tackle some of them here.  Learn about random whaleshark facts, how big do the really get?  Why do they have all those spots?  Are they fish or are they mammals?  And do they have secret celebrity lives?   — The Gods Must Be Crazy is a podcast on Philippine Mythology hosted by friends Anama Dimapilis and Ice Lacsamana, avid mythology nerds and semi-professional gossips. Follow us over at @godsmustbecrazy.pod on Instagram and Facebook for more good stuff. We welcome any suggestions on future topics or episodes. You can also find us on Youtube – Gods Must Be Crazy Podcast channel, where we post some of our episodes and interviews. For other inquiries, please email us at godsmustbecrazy.pod@gmail.com The intro and outro music is by Brian O'Reilly (@dendriform on Instagram). --- References: https://www.worldwildlife.org/species/whale-shark  World of Wonders: In Praise of Fireflies, Whale Sharks, and Other Astonishments by Aimee Nezhukumatathil and Fumi Nakamura (Illustrator) https://www.prodiveinternational.com/whale-shark-stories-legends/  https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Whale_shark --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/godsmustbecrazypod/message

While Kim and Alice take a short summer break, enjoy this episode from the archive about reading for self care! Follow For Real using RSS, Apple Podcasts, Spotify, or Stitcher. For more nonfiction recommendations, sign up for our True Story newsletter, edited by Alice Burton. This content contains affiliate links. When you buy through these links, we may earn an affiliate commission. Nonfiction in the News National Book Critics Circle Award Winners Announced [Book Riot] Best-Selling Author Brené Brown Promotes Meaningful Change in Trailer for HBO Max's ‘Atlas of the Heart' [The Wrap] New Nonfiction Letter to a Stranger: Essays to the Ones Who Haunt Us by Colleen Kinder Dress Code: Unlocking Fashion from the New Look to Millennial Pink by Veronique Hyland You Sound Like a White Girl: The Case for Rejecting Assimilation by Julissa Arce Hell's Half-Acre: The Untold Story of the Benders, America's First Serial Killer Family by Susan Jonusas All the White Friends I Couldn't Keep: Hope – and Hard Pills to Swallow – About Fighting for Black Lives by Andre Henry Burning My Roti: Breaking Barriers as a Queer Indian Woman by Sharan Dhaliwal Reads for Self Care World of Wonders: In Praise of Fireflies, Whale Sharks, and Other Astonishments by Aimee Nezhukumatathil Calypso by David Sedaris The Lazy Genius Way: Embrace What Matters, Ditch What Doesn't, and Get Stuff Done by Kendra Adachi Team of Rivals: The Political Genius of Abraham Lincoln by Doris Kearns Goodwin Reading Now The Christie Affair by Nina de Gramont The Dark Forest by Cixin Liu Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Chris and Eddie are joined by Aimee Nezhukumatahil, author of Barnes and Noble's 2020 Book of the Year, World of Wonders: In Praise of Fireflies, Whale Sharks, and Other Astonishments. Whimsical and introspective, this book inspires the reader to look to the natural world for guidance, curiosity, and delight. Aimee's work has been integrated into high school, college, and university curriculum as part of contemporary poetry, environmental studies, women's studies, and Asian-American literature classes. Currently, Aimee teaches environmental literature and poetry writing in the MFA program of the University of Mississippi. Aimee discusses the gift of attention as the highest form of prayer, her perception of wealth and privilege in relation to her upbringing, and what the diverse, multifaceted nature of creation says about each of us. She challenges listeners to carve out time for stillness and careful attention in order to recognize the beauty in everything. This conversation reveals the precious mysteries of God's nature and the ways our love for God constantly prompts a response of awe and wonder.Check out Aimee Nezhukumatathil's book World of Wonders here:https://aimeenez.net Follow Aimee on social media:https://www.facebook.com/AimeeNezhukumatathil https://twitter.com/aimeenezhttps://www.instagram.com/aimee_nezhukumatathil/ 

Poet Aimee Nezhukumatathil’s exuberant book of essays, World of Wonders: In Praise of Fireflies, Whale Sharks, & Other Astonishments, has unlocked protective passion for nature among readers since its release in 2020. In the book's thirty dazzling essays, Nezhukumatathil weaves love stories about being a daughter, a partner, a mother, and a teacher with reverence … Continue reading Ep. 47 – Poet Aimee Nezhukumatathil on writing love letters to nature →

This week Alice and Kim chat about their current obsessions (Lincoln and fraudsters, respectively), discuss reading for self care, and preview new nonfiction about strangers, assimilation, serial killers, and more. Follow For Real using RSS, Apple Podcasts, Spotify, or Stitcher. For more nonfiction recommendations, sign up for our True Story newsletter, edited by Alice Burton. This content contains affiliate links. When you buy through these links, we may earn an affiliate commission. Nonfiction in the News National Book Critics Circle Award Winners Announced [Book Riot] Best-Selling Author Brené Brown Promotes Meaningful Change in Trailer for HBO Max's ‘Atlas of the Heart' [The Wrap] New Nonfiction Letter to a Stranger: Essays to the Ones Who Haunt Us by Colleen Kinder Dress Code: Unlocking Fashion from the New Look to Millennial Pink by Veronique Hyland You Sound Like a White Girl: The Case for Rejecting Assimilation by Julissa Arce Hell's Half-Acre: The Untold Story of the Benders, America's First Serial Killer Family by Susan Jonusas All the White Friends I Couldn't Keep: Hope – and Hard Pills to Swallow – About Fighting for Black Lives by Andre Henry Burning My Roti: Breaking Barriers as a Queer Indian Woman by Sharan Dhaliwal Reads for Self Care World of Wonders: In Praise of Fireflies, Whale Sharks, and Other Astonishments by Aimee Nezhukumatathil Calypso by David Sedaris The Lazy Genius Way: Embrace What Matters, Ditch What Doesn't, and Get Stuff Done by Kendra Adachi Team of Rivals: The Political Genius of Abraham Lincoln by Doris Kearns Goodwin Reading Now The Christie Affair by Nina de Gramont The Dark Forest by Cixin Liu Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

In this episode, Alyssa and Vanessa review their 2021 in books and writing. Linktree: https://linktr.ee/dearlitpod Media Mentioned: Our Violent Ends by Chloe Gong (McElderry Books) “Twitter vs. MFA” by Denne Michele Norris (Electric Literature) Wound from the Mouth of a Wound by torrin a. greathouse (Milkweed Editions) World of Wonders: In Praise of Fireflies, Whale Sharks, and Other Astonishments by Aimee Nezhukumatatil (Milkweed Editions) Sabrina & Corina: Stories by Kali Fajardo-Anstine (One World) These Violent Delights by Chloe Gong (McElderry Books) When My Brother Was an Aztec by Natalie Díaz (Copper Canyon Press) A House Made of Water by Michelle Lin (Sibling Rivalry Press) Multiply/Divide: On the American Real and Surreal by Wendy S. Walters (Sarabande Books) Raybearer by Jordan Ifueko (Amulet Books) Spinning by Tillie Walden (First Second) Kingdom Animalia by Aracelis Girmay (BOA Editions) Bestiary by K-Ming Chang (One World) Ace of Spades by Faridah Àbíké-Íyímídé (Usborne) Night Sky with Exit Wounds by Ocean Vuong (Copper Canyon Press) Having a Coke With Godzilla by Kazumi Chin (Sibling Rivalry Press) “Lydia Davis on How Translation Opens a Writer's Mind” by Lydia Davis (Literary Hub) “Baba Yaga Is a Lesbian” by Mallory Pearson (Electric Literature)

Madison BookBeat - Your listener-supported, community radio home for Madison authors, topics, book events and publishers.Stu Levitan gets 2022 off to a wondrous start with an encore presentation of a conversation with Aimee Nezhukumatathil about her an enchanting and stimulating collection of illustrated nature essays called “World Of Wonders: In Praise Of Fireflies, Whale Sharks, & Other Astonishments.” Published by the good people at Milkweed Editions, it was named Book of the Year by Barnes and Noble, and was a finalist for the Kirkus Prize in nonfiction. And Aimee met two of the criteria as a former Badger who was at the Wisconsin Book Festival.If you took Aldo Leopold's expert eye for Nature and Marcel Proust's ability to evoke memory out of experience and filtered it all through a poet and essayist who was the daughter of a Filipina mother and South Indian father, you might come close to what Aimee Nezhukumatathil has accomplished in World of Wonders.Born in Chicago in 1974, she lived as a child in Iowa, Arizona, Kansas, New York and Ohio; received her undergraduate and master's degrees in poetry and nonfiction from The Ohio State University; was awarded a poetry fellowship to the University of Wisconsin Institute for Creative Writing; spent 14 years teaching in western New York, and in 2016 accepted appointment as Professor of English and Creative Writing in the MFA program at the University of Mississippi in Oxford, where her husband, the essayist Dustin Parsons, also teaches. Since 2003, she has published four collections of poetry and a chapbook of garden poems with the poet Ross Gay, and has been included in several collections and anthologies. She has been awarded a poetry fellowship from the National Endowment for the Arts, the Pushcart Prize, and a 2020 Guggenheim Fellowship in poetry, among other honors.A real pleasure to have Prof. Aimee Nezhukumatathil on Madison BookBeat.

“I think something happened in 2016, where I just snapped. There was a lot of a hateful news going around with American politics, and I didn't know how to answer a lot of my kids questions then. Something I know I can do is to tell them things that I loved about this planet or things that I loved in other people because all they saw or heard about was just this weird ugliness, school shootings, leaders who were saying ‘build that wall' to anybody who looked different than them, and so I remember the night I shut myself up in my office after the kids went to bed and just started writing about plants and animals that I loved from my childhood.”Aimee Nezhukumatathil is the author of the NYTimes best-selling illustrated collection of nature essays and Kirkus Prize finalist, World of Wonders: In Praise of Fireflies, Whale Sharks & Other Astonishments, which was chosen as Barnes and Noble's and has sold 5 million copies. She has four previous poetry collections: Oceanic, Lucky Fish, At the Drive-in Volcano, and Miracle Fruit. Her most recent chapbook is Lace & Pyrite, a collaboration of epistolary garden poems with the poet Ross Gay. Her writing appears twice in the Best American Poetry Series, The New York Times Magazine, ESPN, Ploughshares, American Poetry Review, and Tin House.Honors include a poetry fellowship from the National Endowment for the Arts, Pushcart Prize, Mississippi Arts Council grant, and being named a Guggenheim Fellow in poetry. She's the first-ever poetry editor for Sierra magazine, the story-telling arm of The Sierra Club. She is professor of English and Creative Writing in the University of Mississippi's MFA program.· aimeenez.net · www.creativeprocess.info· www.oneplanetpodcast.org

Aimee Nezhukumatathil is the author of the NYTimes best-selling illustrated collection of nature essays and Kirkus Prize finalist, World of Wonders: In Praise of Fireflies, Whale Sharks & Other Astonishments, which was chosen as Barnes and Noble's and has sold 5 million copies. She has four previous poetry collections: Oceanic, Lucky Fish, At the Drive-in Volcano, and Miracle Fruit. Her most recent chapbook is Lace & Pyrite, a collaboration of epistolary garden poems with the poet Ross Gay. Her writing appears twice in the Best American Poetry Series, The New York Times Magazine, ESPN, Ploughshares, American Poetry Review, and Tin House.Honors include a poetry fellowship from the National Endowment for the Arts, Pushcart Prize, Mississippi Arts Council grant, and being named a Guggenheim Fellow in poetry. She's the first-ever poetry editor for Sierra magazine, the story-telling arm of The Sierra Club. She is professor of English and Creative Writing in the University of Mississippi's MFA program.· aimeenez.net · www.creativeprocess.info· www.oneplanetpodcast.org

Aimee Nezhukumatathil is the author of the New York Times best-selling illustrated collection of nature essays and Kirkus Prize finalist, WORLD OF WONDERS: IN PRAISE OF FIREFLIES, WHALE SHARKS, & OTHER ASTONISHMENTS (2020, Milkweed Editions), which was chosen as Barnes and Noble's Book of the Year. She has four previous poetry collections, and her writing appears twice in the Best American Poetry Series, The New York Times Magazine, ESPN, Ploughshares, American Poetry Review, and Tin House. On today's show, Jen and Aimee connect over their passion for the natural world, and the unavoidable truth the clock is ticking on that environment. But for both Jen and Aimee, creativity, open-heartedness, and WONDER provide a foundation of hope and could truly change they way we see our own lives, and more importantly, the whole world. In addition, they also discuss: 4:14 - Aimee's experiences with a lack of representation in pop culture and art growing up. 11:14 - Confronting the all-common question of: "How dare you want this?" 13:51 - Aimee's decision to abandon pre-med in favor of the arts. 18:07 - How to avoid becoming a brand. 22:16 - Aimee's turbulent publishing journey. 24:02 - Aimee on "negotiating the line between the color of my skin and the outdoors." 29:13 - Making wonder a habit. 32:11 - The difference between writing poems and essays. 40:34 - Why a lack of wonder makes the world more dangerous. --- Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/jennifer-louden/support

“I think something happened in 2016, where I just snapped. There was a lot of a hateful news going around with American politics, and I didn't know how to answer a lot of my kids questions then. Something I know I can do is to tell them things that I loved about this planet or things that I loved in other people because all they saw or heard about was just this weird ugliness, school shootings, leaders who were saying ‘build that wall' to anybody who looked different than them, and so I remember the night I shut myself up in my office after the kids went to bed and just started writing about plants and animals that I loved from my childhood.”Aimee Nezhukumatathil is the author of the NYTimes best-selling illustrated collection of nature essays and Kirkus Prize finalist, World of Wonders: In Praise of Fireflies, Whale Sharks & Other Astonishments, which was chosen as Barnes and Noble's and has sold 5 million copies. She has four previous poetry collections: Oceanic, Lucky Fish, At the Drive-in Volcano, and Miracle Fruit. Her most recent chapbook is Lace & Pyrite, a collaboration of epistolary garden poems with the poet Ross Gay. Her writing appears twice in the Best American Poetry Series, The New York Times Magazine, ESPN, Ploughshares, American Poetry Review, and Tin House.Honors include a poetry fellowship from the National Endowment for the Arts, Pushcart Prize, Mississippi Arts Council grant, and being named a Guggenheim Fellow in poetry. She's the first-ever poetry editor for Sierra magazine, the story-telling arm of The Sierra Club. She is professor of English and Creative Writing in the University of Mississippi's MFA program.· aimeenez.net · www.creativeprocess.info· www.oneplanetpodcast.org

Often funny and always profound, these authors plumb the connections made and the mysteries that abound in stories examining landscapes, life, and survival.Panelists:Aimee Nezhukumatathil is the New York Times best-selling author of WORLD OF WONDERS: IN PRAISE OF FIREFLIES, WHALE SHARKS, & OTHER ASTONISHMENTS, finalist for the Kirkus Prize in non-fiction, and recently named the Barnes and Noble Book of the Year. She is also the author of four books of poetry, and is poetry editor of SIERRA, the national magazine of the Sierra Club. Awards for her writing include a fellowship from the Mississippi Arts Council, Mississippi Institute of Arts and Letters Award for poetry, National Endowment of the Arts, and the Guggenheim Foundation. Her writing has appeared in NYTimes Magazine, ESPN Magazine, and twice in Best American Poetry. She is professor of English and Creative Writing in the University of Mississippi's MFA program. HELEN ELLIS is the author of Southern Lady Code, American Housewife and Eating the Cheshire Cat. Raised in Alabama, she lives with her husband in New York City. You can find her on Twitter @WhatIDoAllDay and Instagram @American-Housewife.LAUREN HOUGH was born in Germany and raised in seven countries and West Texas. She's been an airman in the U.S. Air Force, a green-aproned barista, a bartender, a livery driver, and, for a time, a cable guy. Her work has appeared in Granta, The Wrath-Bearing Tree, The Guardian, and HuffPost. She lives in Austin.Moderator:Beth Ann Fennelly, a 2020 Academy of American Poets Laureate Fellow, is the former poet laureate of Mississippi and teaches in the MFA Program at the University of Mississippi. She's won grants and awards from the N.E.A., the United States Artists, a Pushcart, and a Fulbright to Brazil. Fennelly has published three books of poetry and three of prose, most recently, Heating & Cooling: 52 Micro-Memoirs, which was a Goodreaders Favorite and an Atlanta Journal Constitution Best Book. She lives with her husband, Tom Franklin, and their three children In Oxford, MS. https://www.bethannfennelly.com/ See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

Lisa and her guest Scheffie Lindquist have a compelling discussion about The Goldfinch. The Goldfinch is a Pulitzer winner and delves into the life of Theo Decker, whose mom was killed in a tragic accident. He's shuffled around and first lands at a family friend's house in New York and then later is taken to Las Vegas. But no matter where he is – he is desperately missing his mom. Lisa and Scheffie talk about the beautiful writing and meandering plot. Spoilers are discussed.  Here are books mentioned in the podcast: Girl with a Pearl Earring by Tracy ChevalierThe Catcher in the Rye by J.D. SalingerAt the end of each show, the narrative is flipped, and Lisa or her guest discuss books they've enjoyed in, “Everyone Hated It But Me.” Everyone Hated It But Me Books: Circe by Madeline MillerWorld of Wonders: In Praise of Fireflies, Whale Sharks and Other Astonishments by Aimee NezhukumatathilHere are some links to articles that Lisa and her guest discussed:  The New Yorker in its review described the book as similar to children's literature. A Vox Article says the book was flawed and that is one reason the movie was panned. A New York Times Book Review describes the book as a “glorious Dickensian novel.”  For more information, find Lisa on Instagram, Twitter, Facebook, and her website. *The book titles mentioned include affiliate links. You can support the podcast by purchasing a book with the links because the podcast receives a small commission. 

Aimee Nezhukumatathil is the author of the NYTimes best-selling illustrated collection of nature essays and Kirkus Prize finalist, World of Wonders: In Praise of Fireflies, Whale Sharks & Other Astonishments, which was chosen as Barnes and Noble's and has sold 5 million copies. She has four previous poetry collections: Oceanic, Lucky Fish, At the Drive-in Volcano, and Miracle Fruit. Her most recent chapbook is Lace & Pyrite, a collaboration of epistolary garden poems with the poet Ross Gay. Her writing appears twice in the Best American Poetry Series, The New York Times Magazine, ESPN, Ploughshares, American Poetry Review, and Tin House.Honors include a poetry fellowship from the National Endowment for the Arts, Pushcart Prize, Mississippi Arts Council grant, and being named a Guggenheim Fellow in poetry. She's the first-ever poetry editor for Sierra magazine, the story-telling arm of The Sierra Club. She is professor of English and Creative Writing in the University of Mississippi's MFA program.· aimeenez.net · www.creativeprocess.info· www.oneplanetpodcast.org

“I think something happened in 2016, where I just snapped. There was a lot of a hateful news going around with American politics, and I didn't know how to answer a lot of my kids questions then. Something I know I can do is to tell them things that I loved about this planet or things that I loved in other people because all they saw or heard about was just this weird ugliness, school shootings, leaders who were saying ‘build that wall' to anybody who looked different than them, and so I remember the night I shut myself up in my office after the kids went to bed and just started writing about plants and animals that I loved from my childhood.”Aimee Nezhukumatathil is the author of the NYTimes best-selling illustrated collection of nature essays and Kirkus Prize finalist, World of Wonders: In Praise of Fireflies, Whale Sharks & Other Astonishments, which was chosen as Barnes and Noble's and has sold 5 million copies. She has four previous poetry collections: Oceanic, Lucky Fish, At the Drive-in Volcano, and Miracle Fruit. Her most recent chapbook is Lace & Pyrite, a collaboration of epistolary garden poems with the poet Ross Gay. Her writing appears twice in the Best American Poetry Series, The New York Times Magazine, ESPN, Ploughshares, American Poetry Review, and Tin House.Honors include a poetry fellowship from the National Endowment for the Arts, Pushcart Prize, Mississippi Arts Council grant, and being named a Guggenheim Fellow in poetry. She's the first-ever poetry editor for Sierra magazine, the story-telling arm of The Sierra Club. She is professor of English and Creative Writing in the University of Mississippi's MFA program.· aimeenez.net · www.creativeprocess.info· www.oneplanetpodcast.org

Aimee Nezhukumatathil is the author of the NYTimes best-selling illustrated collection of nature essays and Kirkus Prize finalist, World of Wonders: In Praise of Fireflies, Whale Sharks & Other Astonishments, which was chosen as Barnes and Noble's and has sold 5 million copies. She has four previous poetry collections: Oceanic, Lucky Fish, At the Drive-in Volcano, and Miracle Fruit. Her most recent chapbook is Lace & Pyrite, a collaboration of epistolary garden poems with the poet Ross Gay. Her writing appears twice in the Best American Poetry Series, The New York Times Magazine, ESPN, Ploughshares, American Poetry Review, and Tin House.Honors include a poetry fellowship from the National Endowment for the Arts, Pushcart Prize, Mississippi Arts Council grant, and being named a Guggenheim Fellow in poetry. She's the first-ever poetry editor for Sierra magazine, the story-telling arm of The Sierra Club. She is professor of English and Creative Writing in the University of Mississippi's MFA program.· aimeenez.net · www.creativeprocess.info· www.oneplanetpodcast.org

“I think something happened in 2016, where I just snapped. There was a lot of a hateful news going around with American politics, and I didn't know how to answer a lot of my kids questions then. Something I know I can do is to tell them things that I loved about this planet or things that I loved in other people because all they saw or heard about was just this weird ugliness, school shootings, leaders who were saying ‘build that wall' to anybody who looked different than them, and so I remember the night I shut myself up in my office after the kids went to bed and just started writing about plants and animals that I loved from my childhood.”Aimee Nezhukumatathil is the author of the NYTimes best-selling illustrated collection of nature essays and Kirkus Prize finalist, World of Wonders: In Praise of Fireflies, Whale Sharks & Other Astonishments, which was chosen as Barnes and Noble's and has sold 5 million copies. She has four previous poetry collections: Oceanic, Lucky Fish, At the Drive-in Volcano, and Miracle Fruit. Her most recent chapbook is Lace & Pyrite, a collaboration of epistolary garden poems with the poet Ross Gay. Her writing appears twice in the Best American Poetry Series, The New York Times Magazine, ESPN, Ploughshares, American Poetry Review, and Tin House.Honors include a poetry fellowship from the National Endowment for the Arts, Pushcart Prize, Mississippi Arts Council grant, and being named a Guggenheim Fellow in poetry. She's the first-ever poetry editor for Sierra magazine, the story-telling arm of The Sierra Club. She is professor of English and Creative Writing in the University of Mississippi's MFA program.· aimeenez.net · www.creativeprocess.info· www.oneplanetpodcast.org

“I think something happened in 2016, where I just snapped. There was a lot of a hateful news going around with American politics, and I didn't know how to answer a lot of my kids questions then. Something I know I can do is to tell them things that I loved about this planet or things that I loved in other people because all they saw or heard about was just this weird ugliness, school shootings, leaders who were saying ‘build that wall' to anybody who looked different than them, and so I remember the night I shut myself up in my office after the kids went to bed and just started writing about plants and animals that I loved from my childhood.”Aimee Nezhukumatathil is the author of the NYTimes best-selling illustrated collection of nature essays and Kirkus Prize finalist, World of Wonders: In Praise of Fireflies, Whale Sharks & Other Astonishments, which was chosen as Barnes and Noble's and has sold 5 million copies. She has four previous poetry collections: Oceanic, Lucky Fish, At the Drive-in Volcano, and Miracle Fruit. Her most recent chapbook is Lace & Pyrite, a collaboration of epistolary garden poems with the poet Ross Gay. Her writing appears twice in the Best American Poetry Series, The New York Times Magazine, ESPN, Ploughshares, American Poetry Review, and Tin House.Honors include a poetry fellowship from the National Endowment for the Arts, Pushcart Prize, Mississippi Arts Council grant, and being named a Guggenheim Fellow in poetry. She's the first-ever poetry editor for Sierra magazine, the story-telling arm of The Sierra Club. She is professor of English and Creative Writing in the University of Mississippi's MFA program.· aimeenez.net · www.creativeprocess.info· www.oneplanetpodcast.org

Aimee Nezhukumatathil is the author of the NYTimes best-selling illustrated collection of nature essays and Kirkus Prize finalist, World of Wonders: In Praise of Fireflies, Whale Sharks & Other Astonishments, which was chosen as Barnes and Noble's and has sold 5 million copies. She has four previous poetry collections: Oceanic, Lucky Fish, At the Drive-in Volcano, and Miracle Fruit. Her most recent chapbook is Lace & Pyrite, a collaboration of epistolary garden poems with the poet Ross Gay. Her writing appears twice in the Best American Poetry Series, The New York Times Magazine, ESPN, Ploughshares, American Poetry Review, and Tin House.Honors include a poetry fellowship from the National Endowment for the Arts, Pushcart Prize, Mississippi Arts Council grant, and being named a Guggenheim Fellow in poetry. She's the first-ever poetry editor for Sierra magazine, the story-telling arm of The Sierra Club. She is professor of English and Creative Writing in the University of Mississippi's MFA program.· aimeenez.net · www.creativeprocess.info· www.oneplanetpodcast.org

“I think something happened in 2016, where I just snapped. There was a lot of a hateful news going around with American politics, and I didn't know how to answer a lot of my kids questions then. Something I know I can do is to tell them things that I loved about this planet or things that I loved in other people because all they saw or heard about was just this weird ugliness, school shootings, leaders who were saying ‘build that wall' to anybody who looked different than them, and so I remember the night I shut myself up in my office after the kids went to bed and just started writing about plants and animals that I loved from my childhood.”Aimee Nezhukumatathil is the author of the NYTimes best-selling illustrated collection of nature essays and Kirkus Prize finalist, World of Wonders: In Praise of Fireflies, Whale Sharks & Other Astonishments, which was chosen as Barnes and Noble's and has sold 5 million copies. She has four previous poetry collections: Oceanic, Lucky Fish, At the Drive-in Volcano, and Miracle Fruit. Her most recent chapbook is Lace & Pyrite, a collaboration of epistolary garden poems with the poet Ross Gay. Her writing appears twice in the Best American Poetry Series, The New York Times Magazine, ESPN, Ploughshares, American Poetry Review, and Tin House.Honors include a poetry fellowship from the National Endowment for the Arts, Pushcart Prize, Mississippi Arts Council grant, and being named a Guggenheim Fellow in poetry. She's the first-ever poetry editor for Sierra magazine, the story-telling arm of The Sierra Club. She is professor of English and Creative Writing in the University of Mississippi's MFA program.· aimeenez.net · www.creativeprocess.info· www.oneplanetpodcast.org

Aimee Nezhukumatathil is the author of the NYTimes best-selling illustrated collection of nature essays and Kirkus Prize finalist, World of Wonders: In Praise of Fireflies, Whale Sharks & Other Astonishments, which was chosen as Barnes and Noble's and has sold 5 million copies. She has four previous poetry collections: Oceanic, Lucky Fish, At the Drive-in Volcano, and Miracle Fruit. Her most recent chapbook is Lace & Pyrite, a collaboration of epistolary garden poems with the poet Ross Gay. Her writing appears twice in the Best American Poetry Series, The New York Times Magazine, ESPN, Ploughshares, American Poetry Review, and Tin House.Honors include a poetry fellowship from the National Endowment for the Arts, Pushcart Prize, Mississippi Arts Council grant, and being named a Guggenheim Fellow in poetry. She's the first-ever poetry editor for Sierra magazine, the story-telling arm of The Sierra Club. She is professor of English and Creative Writing in the University of Mississippi's MFA program.· aimeenez.net · www.creativeprocess.info· www.oneplanetpodcast.org

Aimee Nezhukumatathil is the author of the NYTimes best-selling illustrated collection of nature essays and Kirkus Prize finalist, World of Wonders: In Praise of Fireflies, Whale Sharks & Other Astonishments, which was chosen as Barnes and Noble's and has sold 5 million copies. She has four previous poetry collections: Oceanic, Lucky Fish, At the Drive-in Volcano, and Miracle Fruit. Her most recent chapbook is Lace & Pyrite, a collaboration of epistolary garden poems with the poet Ross Gay. Her writing appears twice in the Best American Poetry Series, The New York Times Magazine, ESPN, Ploughshares, American Poetry Review, and Tin House.Honors include a poetry fellowship from the National Endowment for the Arts, Pushcart Prize, Mississippi Arts Council grant, and being named a Guggenheim Fellow in poetry. She's the first-ever poetry editor for Sierra magazine, the story-telling arm of The Sierra Club. She is professor of English and Creative Writing in the University of Mississippi's MFA program.· aimeenez.net · www.creativeprocess.info· www.oneplanetpodcast.org

“I think something happened in 2016, where I just snapped. There was a lot of a hateful news going around with American politics, and I didn't know how to answer a lot of my kids questions then. Something I know I can do is to tell them things that I loved about this planet or things that I loved in other people because all they saw or heard about was just this weird ugliness, school shootings, leaders who were saying ‘build that wall' to anybody who looked different than them, and so I remember the night I shut myself up in my office after the kids went to bed and just started writing about plants and animals that I loved from my childhood.”Aimee Nezhukumatathil is the author of the NYTimes best-selling illustrated collection of nature essays and Kirkus Prize finalist, World of Wonders: In Praise of Fireflies, Whale Sharks & Other Astonishments, which was chosen as Barnes and Noble's and has sold 5 million copies. She has four previous poetry collections: Oceanic, Lucky Fish, At the Drive-in Volcano, and Miracle Fruit. Her most recent chapbook is Lace & Pyrite, a collaboration of epistolary garden poems with the poet Ross Gay. Her writing appears twice in the Best American Poetry Series, The New York Times Magazine, ESPN, Ploughshares, American Poetry Review, and Tin House.Honors include a poetry fellowship from the National Endowment for the Arts, Pushcart Prize, Mississippi Arts Council grant, and being named a Guggenheim Fellow in poetry. She's the first-ever poetry editor for Sierra magazine, the story-telling arm of The Sierra Club. She is professor of English and Creative Writing in the University of Mississippi's MFA program.· aimeenez.net · www.creativeprocess.info· www.oneplanetpodcast.org

In this bonus episode, I read an essay, Firefly (Redux) from World of Wonders by Aimee Nezhukumatathil. From the first of the 30 essays, you find yourself drawn in by the beautiful imagery Aimee uses to describe her joy and amazement of the wondrous world around us. This book compels us to celebrate diversity, to pay attention to the environmental issues plaguing our world, and to spend more time reflecting in nature. This essay in particular brings the book to a nostalgic close - reminding us to cherish and enjoy this beautiful planet we call home. Purchase World of Wonders: In Praise of Fireflies, Whale Sharks, & Other AstonishmentsAimee is the author of the New York Times best-selling illustrated collection of nature essays and Kirkus Prize finalist, WORLD OF WONDERS: IN PRAISE OF FIREFLIES, WHALE SHARKS, & OTHER ASTONISHMENTS. which was chosen as Barnes and Noble's Book of the Year. She has four previous poetry collections: OCEANIC, LUCKY FISH, AT THE DRIVE-IN VOLCANO, and MIRACLE FRUIT, the last three from Tupelo Press. Her most recent chapbook is LACE & PYRITE, a collaboration of epistolary garden poems with the poet Ross Gay. Her writing appears twice in the Best American Poetry Series, The New York Times Magazine, ESPN, Ploughshares, American Poetry Review, and Tin House. She is a professor of English and Creative Writing in the University of Mississippi's MFA program.From World of Wonders by Aimee Nezhukumatathil (Minneapolis: Milkweed Editions, 2020). Copyright © 2020 by Aimee Nezhukumatathil. Reprinted with permission from Milkweed Editions. milkweed.orgSee Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.

In this week's episode, Kendra and Sachi discuss World of Wonders and The Way Through the Woods. Check out our Patreon page to learn more about our book club and other Patreon-exclusive goodies. Follow along over on Instagram, join the discussion in our Goodreads group, and be sure to subscribe to our newsletter for more new books and extra book reviews! Things Mentioned Information on #StopLine3 Milkweed Editions Books Mentioned The Way Through the Woods: Of Mushrooms and Mourning by Long Litt Woon, Translated by Barbara J. Haveland World of Wonders: In Praise of Fireflies, Whale Sharks, and Other Astonishments by Aimee Nezhukumatathil The Hour of Land: A Personal Topography of America's National Parks by Terry Tempest Williams Wild: From Lost to Found on the Pacific Crest Trail by Cheryl Strayed Mountains Piled Upon Mountains: Appalachian Nature Writing in the Anthropocene edited by Jessica Cory Oak Flat: A Fight for Sacred Land in the American West by Lauren Redniss Shelby's Recommendations Migrations by Charlotte McConaghy Finding the Mother Tree: Discovering the Wisdom of the Forest by Suzanne Simard About Our Guest: Tribal Affiliations: Enrolled member of the Gros Ventre & Little Shell Chippewa Shelby Cole is from Dodson, MT and is a disabled graduate student in the Cellular, Molecular, and Microbial Biology program at the University of Montana. Her degree emphasis is in Immunology and her research focuses on developing a universal influenza vaccine. She lives in Missoula with her dog Roxy. In her free time she enjoys hiking, beading, reading, and spending time with friends and family. #Landback #stopline3 Instagram This episode is brought to you by the House of CHANEL, creator of the iconic J12 sports watch. Always in motion, the J12 travels through time without ever losing its identity. CONTACT Questions? Comments? Email us hello@readingwomenpodcast.com.  SOCIAL MEDIA Twitter | Facebook | Instagram | Website Music by Miki Saito with Isaac Greene Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

In this week's episode, Kendra and Sachi discuss books around this month's theme of Nature Writing! Our guest spot will be on the next episode, so stay tuned! Thanks to Our Sponsors! Go to http://talkspace.com and use the code READINGWOMEN for $100 off your first month. Try MUBI for 30 Days at MUBI.com/ReadingWomen. Check out our Patreon page to learn more about our book club and other Patreon-exclusive goodies. Follow along over on Instagram, join the discussion in our Goodreads group, and be sure to subscribe to our newsletter for more new books and extra book reviews! Things MentionedInterview with on Thresholds Books Mentioned Two Trees Make a Forest: Travels Among Taiwan's Mountains & Coasts in Search of My Family's Past by Jessica J. Lee Braiding Sweetgrass: Indigenous Wisdom, Scientific Knowledge, and the Teachings of Plants by Robin Wall Kimmerer The Way Through the Woods: Of Mushrooms and Mourning by Long Litt Woon, Translated by Barbara J. Haveland World of Wonders: In Praise of Fireflies, Whale Sharks, and Other Astonishments by Aimee Nezhukumatathil Currently Reading Against the Loveless World by Susan Abulhawa One Hundred Days by Alice Pung CONTACT Questions? Comments? Email us hello@readingwomenpodcast.com.  SOCIAL MEDIA Twitter | Facebook | Instagram | Website Music by Miki Saito with Isaac Greene Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Steampunk Fantasies. Time Travel. Bug Hunting. A storage locker full of UFO-ology. It's all on the latest Radio Book Club, where hosts Jessie Magleby, Andy Nettell, and Shari Zollinger discuss the latest titles grabbing their attention this month. Lots of reviews and recommendations on their July episode, as well as literary events and happenings in town. Radio Book Club Mentions - La Sal Mountain Elegies by Various 12 Bytes: How We Got Here. Where We Might Go Next. by Jeanette Winterson The Nature of Oaks: The Rich Ecology of Our Most Essential Native Trees by Douglas Tallamy Homewaters: A Human and Natural History of the Puget Sound by David Williams A World on the Wing: The Global Odyssey of Migratory Birds by Scott Weidensaul The Kingdoms by Natasha Pulley A World of Wonders: In Praise of Fireflies, Whale Sharks, and Other Astonishments by Amy Nezhukumatathil The Kissing Bug: A True Story of a Family, an Insect, and a Nation's Neglect of a Deadly Disease by Daisy Hernandez Summer Reading List - Martin Marten by Brian Doyle Shakespeare and Company by Sylvia Beach Unsolaced: Along the Way to All That Is by Gretel Ehrlich The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Olympics by Daniel James Brown Facing the Mountain: A True Story of Japanese American Heroes in World War II by Daniel James Brown Somebody's Daughter by Ashley C. Ford More Time Travel Mentions - The Time Traveler's Wife by Audrey Niffenegger Life After Life by Kate Atkinson A Wrinkle in Time by Madeleine L'Engle Outlander (book series) by Diana Gabaldon Somewhere In Time by Richard Matheson The Time Machine by HG Wells

Melanie O'Loughlin of Lamplight Books reviews World of Wonders: In Praise of Fireflies, Whale Sharks, and Other Astonishments by Aimee Nezhukumatathil, published by Milkweed Press.

This week, May Cobb, author of The Hunting Wives, visits and talks about writing and some of her favorite books, including Hollow by Owen Egerton and Woman on the Edge by Samantha Bailey. Books Discussed:Woman on the Edge by Samantha BaileyThe Shark Club by Ann Kid TaylorHollow by Owen EgertonWorld of Wonders: In Praise of Fireflies, Whale Sharks, and Other Astonishments by Aimee Nezukumatathil. The Girls Are All So Nice Here by Laurie Elizabeth Flynn Other Things Discussed:The Final Girl Support Group by Grady HendrixDial A for Aunties by Jessie Q. SutantoNext episode Missy Dunaway will visit to talk about her new book.  The Traveling Artist: A Visual Journal by Missy Dunaway Book of the month Find May Cobb on Social Media:Maycobb.comTwitter: @maycobbInstagram @maycobb My Book Giveaway for A Theater For Dreamers by Polly Samson closes Tuesday, May 18th. Enter by visiting my Instagram account @jennifercaloyeras Scroll to find giveaway photo and makes a comment. It’s that easy! Support the show (https://www.patreon.com/user?u=22705533)

Aimee Nezhukumatathil (neh-ZOO / KOO-mah / tah-TILL) is the author of the New York Times best-selling illustrated collection of nature essays and Kirkus Prize finalist, WORLD OF WONDERS: IN PRAISE OF FIREFLIES, WHALE SHARKS, & OTHER ASTONISHMENTS (2020, Milkweed Editions), which was chosen as Barnes and Noble’s Book of the Year. She has four previous poetry collections: OCEANIC (Copper Canyon Press, 2018), LUCKY FISH (2011), AT THE DRIVE-IN VOLCANO (2007), and MIRACLE FRUIT (2003), the last three from Tupelo Press. Her most recent chapbook is LACE & PYRITE, a collaboration of epistolary garden poems with the poet Ross Gay. Her writing appears twice in the Best American Poetry Series, The New York Times Magazine, ESPN, Ploughshares, American Poetry Review, and Tin House. Honors include a poetry fellowship from the National Endowment for the Arts, the Pushcart Prize, a Mississippi Arts Council grant, and being named a Guggenheim Fellow in poetry. In 2021, she became the first-ever poetry editor for SIERRA magazine, the story-telling arm of The Sierra Club. She is professor of English and Creative Writing in the University of Mississippi’s MFA program. For more Thresholds, visit us at www.thisisthresholds.com Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Intro: Bookshop Rocks! Bookshop is an Amazon-alternative that supports indie bookstores, and we encourage everyone to shop here: Newtonville Books BookshopSpring and All by William Carlos WilliamsAnd Then It’s Spring by Julie Fogliano and Erin E. SteadBooks that Came out During the Pandemic and Are Now in PaperbackSuch a Fun Age by Kiley ReidRun Me to Earth by Paul YoonDeacon King Kong by James McBrideThe Mountains Sing by Nguyen Phan Que MaiMary’s List of Every Book She Reads This Year  In the NewsReading books about social justice is not going to change the world, but it can help us get on the same page. Check out our Black History Month suggestions:Caste by Isabel WilkersonThe Prophets by Robert Jones Jr.Ida B. The Queen: The Extraordinary Life and Legacy of Ida B. Wells by Michelle DusterMighty Justice (Young Readers’ Edition): The Untold Story of Civil Rights Trailblazer Dovey Johnson Roundtree by Katie McCabe, adapted by Jabari AsimFour Hundred Souls: A Community History of African America, 1619-2019 ed. by Ibram X. Kendi and Keisha N. Blain In the CommunityMary talks with ten-year old Oola Breen-Ryan about the non-profit program she started by creating book boxes for children in need, called Reading Treasury – Spreading Love and BooksSupport Reading Treasury by purchasing books to donate to the project here.If you’d like to browse Oola’s suggested Reading Treasury titles for personal purchase, click here. Supergood SuggestionsPurchase book boxes for shipping or curbside pickup (after April 24th) including special book boxes for Mother’s Day, Father’s Day, Graduation, Summer Reading, and more from our square site: Home | Newtonville Books (square.site)And our Supergood Selections, books chosen monthly that we are extra passionate about: Supergood March Selections | Newtonville Books (square.site)The Committed by Viet Thanh NguyenWorld of Wonders: In Praise of Fireflies, Whale Sharks, and Other Astonishments by Aimee NezhukumatathilMystery Book and Goodie Bag Mystery Book and Goodie Bag | Newtonville Books (square.site)   

Chris and Eddie are joined by Aimee Nezhukumatahil, author of Barnes and Noble's 2020 Book of the Year, World of Wonders: In Praise of Fireflies, Whale Sharks, and Other Astonishments. Whimsical and introspective, this book inspires the reader to look to the natural world for guidance, curiosity, and delight. Aimee's work has been integrated into high school, college, and university curriculum as part of contemporary poetry, environmental studies, women's studies, and Asian-American literature classes. Currently, Aimee teaches environmental literature and poetry writing in the MFA program of the University of Mississippi. Aimee discusses the gift of attention as the highest form of prayer, her perception of wealth and privilege in relation to her upbringing, and what the diverse, multifaceted nature of creation says about each of us. She challenges listeners to carve out time for stillness and careful attention in order to recognize the beauty in everything. This conversation reveals the precious mysteries of God's nature and the ways our love for God constantly prompts a response of awe and wonder.Check out Aimee Nezhukumatathil's book World of Wonders here:https://aimeenez.net Follow Aimee on social media:https://www.facebook.com/AimeeNezhukumatathil https://twitter.com/aimeenezhttps://www.instagram.com/aimee_nezhukumatathil/