Episode 42 - Working on Your Brain with Betsy Kipnis

On this episode, Betsy Kipnis, a multi-hyphenate who loves a wide variety of authors, and I discuss some shared favorites, great Chicago bookstores, and she has some great stories. She discusses books that are multi-sensory and we get spicy about a beloved author. 

 

Betsy’s Blog - Bookisshh

Barbara Kingsolver’s Recovery Center 

 

Books mentioned in this episode: 

 

What Betsy’s reading: 

The Road to the Salt Sea by Samuel Kọláwọlé

Fundamentally by Nussaibah Younis  

 

Books Highlighted by Betsy:

Black Butterflies by Priscilla Morris 

How to Say Babylon by Safiya Sinclair

The Lovely Bones by Alice Sebold 

Forty Rooms by Olga Grushin

The Island of Missing Trees by Elif Shafak 

The Vegetarian by Han Kang 

Human Acts by Han Kang 

Native Son by Richard Wright 

Furious Hours: Murder, Fraud, and the Last Trial of Harper Lee by Casey Cep

Meditations for Mortals: Four Weeks to Embrace Your Limitations and Make Time for What Counts by Oliver Burkeman 

 

All books available on my Bookshop.org episode page.  

Other books mentioned in this episode:

Chocolat by Joanne Harris 

Annie Bot by Sierra Greer 

Hum by Helen Phillips 

The Handmaid’s Tale by Margaret Atwood 

Colored Television by Danzy Senna

We Do Not Part by Han Kang 

Flowers in the Attic by V.C. Andrews 

Are You There God? It’s Me, Margaret by Judy Blume 

Rouge by Mona Awad 

Perfume: The Story of a Murderer by Patrick Suskind 

The Nightingale by Kristin Hannah 

Yellowface by R.F. Kuang 

Hello Beautiful by Ann Napolitano 

Interior Chinatown by Charles Yu 

Breasts and Eggs by Meiko Kwakami 

Girl in Snow by Danya Kukafka 

Hillbilly Elegy: A Memoir of a Family and Culture in Crisis by J.D. Vance 

Dopesick: Dealers, Doctors, and the Drug Company that Addicted America by Beth Macy 

Educated: A Memoir by Tara Westover 

The Guest by Emma Cline

The Girls by Emma Cline 

Luster by Raven Leilani 

The Bean Trees by Barabara Kingsolver 

The Joy Luck Club by Amy Tan 

There Are No Children Here: The Story of Two Boys Growing Up in the Other America by Alex Kotlowitz 

Oedipus Rex by Sophocles 

There are Rivers in the Sky by Eilf Shafak 

Ducks, Newburyport by Lucy Ellmann 

In Cold Blood by Truman Capote

To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee 

Go Set a Watchman by Harper Lee 

Four Thousand Weeks: Time Management for Mortals by Oliver Burkeman