Podcast: The Bookstore

It’s like a book club, but we actually read the book. Join hosts Becca and Corinne as they recreate their days working and hanging out at their local independent book store.

7.5 – Mah Fravrit Thing is Gersberms

07 – Stay With Me

06 – Go Tell It on the Mountain

This week we discuss Go Tell It on the Mountain by James Baldwin, one of the American Civil Rights Movements lesser taught leaders. We look adoringly at his treatment of women, and wrack our brains to understand some more obscure Biblical references….

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5.5 – 2nd Best Audrina

We’re back for a new mini episode! Like Audrina we just couldn’t leave Whitefern. This week we watched Lifetime’s movie adaptation of My Sweet Audrina.   You can own for just $2.99!   Next week we’ll be discussing an actual classic, and…

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05 – Gilead

This week Becca and Corinne read Gilead by Marilyn Robinson because their first guest, Josh Weston, told them to! Today’s episode includes thoughtful discussion of a novel about an intentional and intelligent elderly pastor, weird anecdotes about…

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4.5 – What’s Norman Mailer Going To Do With a $100 Bill?

On our first ever between the book episode (a minisode, a .5, whatever you want to call it!) we bring you the story of the Native American literature world’s very own Rachel Dolezal. Becca and Corinne try to break down John Smelcer’s many grifting…

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04 – My Sweet Audrina

03 – Voices from Chernobyl

Welcome back to The Bookstore, citizens of Earth! This time Becca and Corinne talk about their Read Around the World Challenge and discuss Svetlana Alexievich’s Nobel Prize winning oral history, Voices from Chernobyl. Becca’s actually been there!…

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02 – Parable of the Sower

This episode Becca and Cori discuss the Hulu series that everyone was talking about two months ago, play a game of Title Mashup, and really get into Octavia E. Butler’s “Parable of the Sower.” If you’ve got a Title Mashup for us, send it to  and…

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