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Episode #32 of LouisvilleReads! Reading and reviewing investigative journalist for The New York Times Andrea Elliott's breathtaking 2022 winner of the Pulitzer Prizes for Nonfiction 'Invisible Child: Poverty Survival & Hope in an American City'. Serialized in NYT articles from approximately 2013 to 2021, Elliott captures life's peaks and valleys for Dasani Coates, a young, homeless, African American girl and her family as they navigate America's often unseen (almost Dickensian) socioeconomic margins still very much extant in the 21 century. Coming of age and self-awareness, Dansani must make a choice between how poverty is defined: the lack of income...or the lack of family. Interview with the author courtesy of the Free Library of Philadelphia on the back half!

K.A. Owens interviews Jack Spadaro a Mining/Mine Safety/Environmental Engineer and Dr. Colleen Unroe, professor of Environmental Studies at Dickenson University. They explain the relationship between a century of mining in Eastern KY and the severe damage from the heavy rainfall and flooding that began on Wednesday July 27, 2022. Recorded Friday August 26, 2022.

This week we are joined by Shelley Sackier who has had an interesting literary journey. She is a young adult fiction writer who has recently published a book about scotch whisky called Make It a Double: From Wretched to Wondrous: Tales of One Woman’s Lifelong Discovery of Whisky. It is part Scotch history, a love letter to the country itself, and part memoir about how her love for the spirit developed especially after she completed an internship at a Scottish distillery. Over the course of 20 years, it has changed the trajectory of her life. Shelley works as a whiskey educator at Reservoir Distillery in Richmond, Virginia.

You can follow Shelley Sackier on Instagram @shelleysackier or at her website www.shelleysackier.com

For shownotes for any episode go to our website www.perksofbeingabooklover.com.

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Books Mentioned in This Episode:

1- Make it a Double: From Wretched from Wondrous: Tales of One Woman's Lifelong Discovery of Whisky by Shelley Sackier

2- The Monsters of Rookhaven by Padraig Kenny

3- The Night Gardener by Jonathan Auxier

4- A Season to Taste: How I Lost My Sense of Smell and Found My Way by Molly Birnbaum

5- The Babysitter: My Summers With a Serial Killer by Jennifer Jordan and Liza Rodman

6- The School for Good Mothers by Jessamine Chan

This week we are joined by returning guest Nancy Brooks, Executive Director of the Louisville chapter of the National Alliance on Mental Illness (NAMI). Nancy shares current initiatives, including "stigma-free workplace," early intervention, and peer-to-peer support groups. The Step Forward for Mental Health Walk will be hosted by NAMI on October 15th, 2022. You can find details about the walk as well as information and links to free weekly online support groups at nami.org.

Featured:

Original theme music by Neil Lucas

Resources:

nami.org

Let's take a look at the Inflation Reduction Act, especially the provisions that are supposed to help solve the climate crisis. Then let's ask, do we trust this government to solve climate problems? Do we trust this government to solve species extinction problems?

Let's look at the long record the government has of acting exactly contrary to the interests of the people.

On this week’s show, your host, Justin Mog, puts down his binoculars for a chat with Dan Maloney, who stepped in as the new Director of the Louisville Zoo (http://louisvillezoo.org) last fall. Dan comes to us with over 39 years of experience working in zoos around the world. He speaks about what is so special about the Louisville Zoo and what drew him here. The Louisville Zoo is a non-profit organization, but it’s also an agency of Louisville Metro Government, and it is the state zoo of Kentucky! In fact, the Kentucky Legislature recently made their first appropriation to support the zoo to tune of $10 million.

Opened in 1969, the Louisville Zoo currently exhibits more than 1,100 animals on 130 acres of natural settings representing zoogeographical areas, specific habitat types or special education areas including: Glacier Run, Africa, Islands, New World Exhibits (North, Central and South America), Australian Outback, the HerpAquarium and the Metazoo Education Center. The Zoo’s award-winning Islands, Gorilla Forest and Glacier Run exhibits have been recognized by AZA for their excellence and innovation. The 2016 Master Plan address the challenges and vast opportunities for the Louisville Zoo.

Listen in to learn about the zoo’s role in conservation and preservation of endangered species, including their highly successful captive breeding population of black-footed ferrets, North America’s most endangered mammal, their newest Hartmann’s mountain zebra born in May, and how the Louisville Zoo is a Certified Sensory Inclusive Location.

And be sure to join us out at the Louisville Zoo for their adults-only annual fundraiser: Brew at the Zoo & Wine Too on Saturday, August 27, 5:30-9:30pm with tastings from craft breweries & wineries, as well as non-alcoholic beverages, animal encounters, and musical entertainment from the duo Kevin and Lauren. All proceeds will benefit the Zoo’s education, conservation, preservation and cultivation projects.

As always, our feature is followed by your community action calendar for the week, so get your calendars out and get ready to take action for sustainability NOW!

Sustainability Now! is hosted by Dr. Justin Mog and airs on Forward Radio, 106.5fm, WFMP-LP Louisville, every Monday at 6pm and repeats Tuesdays at 12am and 10am. Find us at http://forwardradio.org

The music in this podcast is courtesy of the local band Appalatin and is used by permission. Explore their delightful music at http://appalatin.com

K.A. Owens interviews Tina Ward-Pugh, former member of the Louisville Board of Alderman and the Louisville Metro Council. She is now running for the position of Jefferson County Clerk.

Recorded Friday August 19, 2022, 1:30PM.

Patty talks to The Faculty Feed team at Louisville's Health Sciences Campus about how Critical Thinking connects with Clinical Thinking.

Corrie Shull is a lifelong champion of public education, and his record of community service underscores his advocacy for a strong, diverse, progressive JCPS system. He is the father of Zoe and Harrison. Corrie has served on the JCPS Facilities Committee and the Behavioral Support Alternative Task Force. He has participated in Flash Dads and mentors JCPS middle school boys. For the past eight years, Corrie created and led the Teen Summit Enrichment Program, which offers a mix of academic instruction and cultural enrichment. He also serves as coordinator of an annual college tour, giving high school students the opportunity to visit college campuses and personally connect with counselors, students, and staff. Corrie holds degrees from Fisk University and Louisville Presbyterian Seminary and a doctorate in Transformative Leadership from Colgate Rochester Crozer Divinity School. He is the pastor of Burnett Avenue Baptist Church in Fern Creek.

In this week’s episode, we chat with Erin Flanagan, an author whose debut novel Deer Season won a 2022 Edgar Award for Best First Novel; her most recent book that published this past summer is a thriller called Blackout. Blackout revolves around a sociology professor named Maris who begins having blackouts despite the fact that she gave up drinking seven months before and then discovers other women in her community are experiencing the same thing. It’s a bit of a #metoo novel with some speculative science and some vodka thrown in. In addition to being an award-winning writer, Erin is also a creative writing professor at Wright State University in Ohio.

You can follow Erin Flanagan on Instagram @erinlflanagan or at her website; erinflanagan.net

For shownotes for any episode at our website www.perksofbeingabooklover.com.

Follow us on Instagram @perksofbeingabookloverpod and on FB Perks of Being a BookLover

Books Mentioned in this Episode:

1- Deer Season by Erin Flanagan

2- Blackout by Erin Flanagan

3- In Defense of Witches: The Legacy of the Witch Hunts and Why Women Are Still on Trial by Mona Chollet

4- Shit Cassandra Saw by Gwen Kirby

5- The Damage by Caitlin Wahrer

6- They Never Learn by Layne Fargo

7- The Case of the Missing Marquess (Enola Holmes #1)by Nancy Springer

8- The Case of the Left-Handed Lady (Enola Holmes #2) by Nancy Springer

Movie Mentioned

1- Enola Holmes - 2020 (Netflix)

TV series mentioned:

1- Severance - 2022 (Apple +)