Summer Challenge? How about a weekly podcast! We’ll give you the skinny on the library’s most popular system wide program. And what is tickling our fancy this week – hint! SUMMER CHALLENGE The Art of Fermention by Sandor Katz Wild Fermentation by Sandor Katz Katz will be at the Main Library in person June 21st […]

Nashville PRIDE Festival and Concert is this weekend. We celebrate diversity in Middle Tennessee and tell you about our favorite books, movies and music by or about LGBTQ folks. For Summer Challenge we recorded inside a duffel bag! You’ll hear the results! And what is tickling our fancy this week. PRIDE the other Nashville PRIDE […]

June 21st is the summer solstice – the longest day of the year – so this week we are going to talk about long books, movies, and music. It’s Summer Challenge! Do you have what it takes? Can you carry the weight? Don’t wimp out because after that we do the tickle my fancy segment. […]

In honor of Independence Day, we feature our favorite indie books, movies, and music. This is a surprisingly literary episode. No Superchunk in sight. INDIE Subterranean Press at Nashville Public Library Subterranean Press website Wool series by Hugh Howey Akashic Books at Nashville Public Library Akashic Books website Graywolf Press at Nashville Public Library Graywolf Press website […]

Summer time is for cooking out so we gab about the best books movies and music to get you grillin’ and chillin’. Did I just write that? Grillin’ and chillin’. I wrote that. Okay. Let’s move on. GRILL IT / CHILL IT Guy on Fire: 130 Recipes for Adventures in Outdoor Cooking by Guy Fieri […]

This summer is the anniversary of Woodstock so we revisit the 1960s – the good, the bad, and the ugly of the 1960s. Arguably the summer of love was 1967. Woodstock happened in 1969. August 15, 1969 to be precise but we have something else we want to talk about that week. We figure it […]

John Green made himself famous by using social media (and by writing great books). We clue you in on the best authors and musicians who are active on the interwebs: who’s real, who’s funny, who’s fake, who’s a train wreck, etc. Be sure to put your faves in the comments. And what is tickling our […]

Dystopias have a literary cachet as of late. We run down the our favorite dystopias, old and new. We say we love big brother but we never mention 1984. If you think about it, having a favorite dystopia is bittersweet. But there is nothing bitter about the tickle my fancy segment. The tickle my fancy […]

To celebrate the release of Outlander the miniseries we dig all things Scottish. Bad accents ensue. Surprisingly, no bagpipes. I repeat – no bagpipes. SCOTLAND Outlander by Diana Gabaldon watch the first episode of Outlander Scottish independence referendum Waverley by Walter Scott American on Purpose by Craig Ferguson Denise Mina Girl with the Dragon Tattoo, […]

Shakespeare in the Park‘s performances of As You Like It start this week. We recommend the best 16th century literature you can get from the library. Just kidding. We mostly talk about movies. Movies you can get from the library. And what is tickling our fancy this month. What’s the mystery play at the end? […]