Episode 60 - Pull Your Guts out Through Your Nose with Melissa Joulwan of Strong Sense of Place

On this episode, Melissa Joulwan, author and co-host of the podcast Strong Sense of Place, discusses the way her personal reading life and work for the show overlap. We talk about her deep and varied book preferences, our shared love for diving deep into a backlist, and you get to hear the fabulous way she describes the books she loves.

 

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Books mentioned in this episode: 

 

What Betsy’s reading: 

King of Ashes by S.A. Cosby 

The Ghostwriter by Julie Clark

Skeleton Crew by Stephen King

 

Books Highlighted by Melissa:

Jane Eyre by Charlotte Bronte

A Room with a View by E.M. Forester

The Inn at Lake Divine by Elinor Lipman  

Fresh Water for Flowers by Valérie Perrin

The Elegance of the Hedgehog by Muriel Barbery 

Circe by Madeline Miller 

Gods of Jade and Shadow by Silvia Moreno-Garcia 

Less by Andrew Sean Greer

The Trick by Emanuel Bergman

Spoonbenders by Daryl Gregory 

A Gentleman in Moscow by Amor Towles 

Odds Against by Dick Francis

Dietland by Sarai Walker

Piglet by Lottie Hazell

The 4-Hour Workweek by Timothy Ferriss

Cryptonomicon by Neal Stephenson 

 

All books available on my Bookshop.org episode page.  

Other books mentioned in this episode:

Well Fed Weeknights by Melissa Joulwan 

Rollergirl by Melissa Joulwan 

The Kill Artist by Daniel Silva 

This Rough Magic by Mary Stewart 

Wakenhyrst by Michelle Paver 

The Eyre Affair by Jasper Fforde 

The Madwoman Upstairs by Catherine Lowell 

What Moves the Dead by T. Kingfisher 

Mexican Gothic by Silvia Moreno-Garcia 

Carmilla by Joseph Sherican Le Fanu

Hungerstone by Kat Dunn 

The Curse of Pietro Houdini by Derek B. Miller 

Wolf Hall by Hilary Mantel 

The Historian by Elizabeth Kostova 

The Shadow of the Wind by Carlos Ruiz Zafon 

A Curious Beginning by Deanna Raybourn 

A Great Deliverance by Elizabeth George

The Watchmaker of Filigree Street by Natasha Pulley 

The Bedlam Stacks by Natasha Pulley 

The Kingdoms by Natasha Pulley 

2 A.M. at The Cat’s Pajamas by Marie-Helene Bertino 

Beautyland by Marie-Helene Bertino 

The Way Men Act by Elinor Lipman 

Station Eleven by Emily St. John Mandel 

The Song of Achilles by Madeline Miller 

Silver Nitrate by Silvia Moreno-Garcia 

Less is Lost by Andrew Sean Greer 

My Year of Rest and Relaxation by Ottessa Moshfegh